The excerpt below is from President Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address. "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."

In this excerpt, what view does Lincoln express about future Reconstruction?

A.
The South must be severely punished for having threatened the Union.

B.
The damage done to the Union by the South can never be fully repaired.

C.
The South should be welcomed back to the Union with justice and kindness.

D.
Confederates should be banned from public life for their role in causing the Civil War.