 | American essays - 1910 - 964 pages
...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
...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...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
...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...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... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...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...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
...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...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... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 840 pages
...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...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)... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1865 - 866 pages
...not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled mo. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not...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... | |
 | George Bancroft - Rare books - 1865 - 436 pages
...give us the rightful result." * " The Nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, desired or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is...shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impar* Letter to Kentucky. tiiil history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice... | |
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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. 
