 | American essays - 1910 - 964 pages
...Abraham Lincoln, 'I claim not to have controlled events, but confess 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 desired or expected.' There spoke not the dignified statesman of the academic tradition who moulds... | |
 | 1865 - 810 pages
...sagacity. 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...party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claun it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 pages
...sagacity. 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...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... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch, Thomas Buchanan Read - Patriotic poetry, American - 1864 - 200 pages
...saga-- city. 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...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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...GROWTH. C57 I claim not to have controlled events, bnt confess plainly that events liuve controlled me. Now. at 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 tending seems plain. If... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1865 - 866 pages
...sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled mo. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's...wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well us you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find... | |
 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 506 pages
...sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, bat confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the Nation's...removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of 1 1m North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial... | |
 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 498 pages
...sagacity. 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...removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of thw North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial... | |
 | George Washington Bacon - Biography - 1865 - 206 pages
...type. " 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...now wills the removal of a great " wrong, and wills that we of the North shall pay fairly " for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will "... | |
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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. \Vhither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that... 
