Explain the following quote: "if tomorrow it were possible, as some people apparently desire, to reduce by a stroke of the pen the British Empire to the dimensions of the United
Kingdom, half at least of our population would be starved" |

Was giving by lincoln on march 4, 1865-as lincoln prepared to speak, the civil war was drawing to a close-lincolns address of 703 words was the second shortest inaugural address-lincoln mentions god 14 times-505 of the words were one syllable -he used the word "war" or it's pronoun 9 times