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... Anecdotes of Public Men - Page 170by John Wien Forney - 1873 - 444 pagesFull view - About this book
| Stella S. Flood Coatsworth - Chicago (Ill.) - 1869 - 478 pages
...attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three...nation's condition is not what either party or any man desired or expected. God alone can claim it. "Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the... | |
| John William Draper - United States - 1870 - 716 pages
...of ^s me(jitations on this war : " I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three...nation's condition is not what either party or any man expected or devised. God alone can claim it." The French statesman to whom I have referred, and who... | |
| American literature - 1891 - 1020 pages
...attempt no compliment to my own 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 condition is not what cither party or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain.... | |
| Henry Wilson - Antislavery movements - 1877 - 814 pages
...the part he had acted. " I claim not," be said, " 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 any party or any man expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now... | |
| John Codman Hurd - Constitutional law - 1881 - 652 pages
...on our soil. And when they were too poor to take themselves away, our fathers, burdened as the young struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party or any man desired or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the... | |
| Edward McPherson - United States - 1882 - 680 pages
...no compliment to my own sagacity. 1 claim not to have controlled events, but confet« plainly that events have controlled me. Now at the end of three...expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seoms plain. If Coil now with the removal of a great wrong, and wills a No that we of the North, as... | |
| William O. Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 538 pages
...attempt no compliment to my own sagacity, I claim not to haye controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three...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... | |
| David W. Lusk - Illinois - 1884 - 586 pages
...attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three...Nation's condition is not what either party or any man desired or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the... | |
| Francis Wharton - Constitutional law - 1884 - 882 pages
...country, and constitution all together. . . . / claim not to liave controlled events, but confess that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three...nation's condition is not what either party or any man desired or expected." " I have been shown a letter," he said in an address three days before his assassination,... | |
| Thomas W. Handford - Biography - 1885 - 456 pages
...letter to his friend, AG Hodges : " I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now at the end of three...nation's condition is not what either party or any man desired or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the... | |
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