Lincoln's Assasination

Dear Diary,

It's April 14, 1865, a very sad day indeed. When I read the paper this morning I saw the horrible news. Pres. Lincoln has been assasinated. We were just united as a nation a few days ago. The paper said he was shot by a man name John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater.What is going to happen now that he is gone? Johnson is now president, but he fighting the Congress over everything. The south is going to be under military control. I never believed in the fighting and yet I'm being treated like a prisoner of war in my own country. This is not going over well with the men who are still alive. I am afraid this forced peace will not hold, but we have to hope that it will.

Do I believe that the use of force can preserve a nation? Well, it depends on the situation. The Civil War was a very difficult situation. The decision to use military force after the assasination of Lincoln was probably a very good idea. The man who shot Licoln, John Wilkes Booth, was a southern sympathizer. Therefore he was probably expecting the north to crumble without proper leadership. It did not because of the political force used in the Congress. In the case of the assasination, the use of force probably saved this nation. However, If the military manner that was used in dealing with the south had never stopped, this nation would not exist. Only after it ended, did we truly begin to heal as a nation.