What does Lincoln say about the nature of the speech he made when he first took office, four years earlier?

The correct answer to this open question is the following.

Although there are no options attached we can answer the following.

You do not specify what speech you are referring to. We are going to assume that you are talking about his inauguration speech.

If that is the case, Abraham Lincoln wanted at all cost to prevent a war in the states due to the division of the country. He would try to avoid the battle confrontation that unfortunately ended up being the American Civil War.

In the speech, Abraham Lincoln tried to convince people to form the South that they were responsible for the growing conflict in the United States by defending slavery when he expressed that "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war."

Some historians believe that Abraham Lincoln made everything that was in his hands to avoid the war, and once the war had started, to end it. He suffered for the secession of the states that formed the Confederation and that he aspired to prompt reconciliation that made the states be back as part of the Union.