I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party or any man devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is... Abraham Lincoln: A Memorial Discourse - Page 16by Thomas Mears Eddy - 1865 - 24 pagesFull view - About this book
| Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either l>erty or any man devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is...wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as yon of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 pages
...end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is...wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as yon of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein... | |
| Edward McPherson - Confederate States of America - 1864 - 462 pages
...years* struggle, the nation's condition is m>t what either party, or any man devised, or expected. Ood alone can claim it. Whither it Is tending seems plain....now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills aUo tbat we of the North, as well as yon of the South, shall pay fairly fur our complicity In that... | |
| James Edward Murdoch, Thomas Buchanan Read - Patriotic poetry, American - 1864 - 200 pages
...the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party or any man devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South,... | |
| Stella S. Coatsworth - Chicago (Ill.) - 1865 - 636 pages
...there can be no caviling. We have men, and we could not have had them without the measure. " * And no w let any Union man who complains of the measure test...wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well ai you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find... | |
| Phebe Ann Hanaford - Presidents United States Biography - 1865 - 232 pages
...come," &c, — he concludes with these words, concerning the most Christian deed of his whole life : — "I claim not to have controlled events, but confess...the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that wex of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1865 - 570 pages
...means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result." * " The Nation's condition is not what either party, or...shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impar* Letter to Kentucky. tial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice... | |
| George Bancroft - Rare books - 1865 - 438 pages
...means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result." * " The Nation's condition is not what either party, or...as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for oar complicity in that wrong, impaiv * Letter to Kentucky. tial history will find therein new cause... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 840 pages
...end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is...our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will fmd therein new causes to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God. Yours truly, (Signed)... | |
| Thomas Mears Eddy - Illinois - 1865 - 642 pages
...controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled ine. Now, at the end of three year*' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either...wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well ai you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find... | |
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