Select the correct text in the passage. Which sentence in this excerpt from Abraham Lincoln's second Inaugural address conveys that he wanted the US CMl War to end as soon as possible? Nelther party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict Itself should cease. Each looked for an easier trlumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not Judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offenses; for It must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh." If we shall suppose that