In their respective inaugural addresses, both Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln tried to convince the American public—and the world beyond—of the rightness of their stance on secession and their strong desire to prevent civil war. Here are the words they used to make their cases (Davis top, Lincoln bottom). The more frequently they used a word, the larger it appears. Intriguingly, both presidents relied on a similar set of words (though they may not have meant the same things by them), and each man used a few words that were uniquely his own.

Related topics: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis