Neither Democratic or Republican expected for the war. According to Lincoln "Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other." Which means that they prayed to God and judged others, but in my opinion you shouldn't judge others and your being judeged by others. Lincoln quoted " The prayers of both could not be answered--that of neither has been answered fully." In other words they both had unanswered prayers from God because they dared God to harm each other in a abominable way.