BY CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN AUTHOR OF "THE BOYS OF '76" "DRUM-BEAT OF THE NATION" "MARCHING TO VICTORY" "REDEEMING THE REPUBLIC" "FREEDOM TRIUMPHANT" ETC. "To front a lie in arms and not to yield- JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. "There are no mistakes in the universe of God."-CHARLES SUMNER. "That God rules in the affairs of men is as certain as any truth of physical science."--GEORGE BANCROFT. "The great master-spirits of the world are not so much distinguished, after all, by the acts they do as by the sense itself of some mysterious girding of the Almighty upon them, whose behests they are set to fulfil."-HORACE BUSHNELL. "I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me." "No human council has devised, nor hath any mortal hand worked out, these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God."-ABRAHAM LINCOLN. |
