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" Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every... "
Great Debates in American History: The Civil War - Page 279
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As a Tale That Is Told

Wayne A. Drayer - Christian life - 2006 - 194 pages
...we pray - that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn...
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Reparations: Pro and Con

Alfred L. Brophy - Social Science - 2006 - 312 pages
...slavery draw on Lincoln's second inaugural address, in which he wonders whether the war will continue until "all the wealth piled by the bond-man's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn...
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Prayer: Does it Make Any Difference?

Philip Yancey - Religion - 2006 - 357 pages
...pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue unto all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn...
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Philosophical Perspectives on the War on Terrorism

Gail M. Presbey - Philosophy - 2007 - 529 pages
...Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. . . . The prayers of both could not be answered; that of...bond-man's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn...
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Bonds of Affection: Civic Charity and the Making of America--Winthrop ...

Matthew S. Holland - Religion - 2007 - 340 pages
...South, by placing both regions on a similar footing before a providential God. The key passage reads The Almighty has his own purposes. "Woe unto the world...bond-man's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn...
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Dissenting Voices in America's Rise to Power

David Mayers - History - 2007 - 10 pages
...that He gives to both North and South, this terrible war, as the woe due those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from...bond-man's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn...
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We Hold These Truths

Randall Norman Desoto - Religion - 2007 - 266 pages
...and that he gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from...bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn...
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Head and Heart: American Christianities

Garry Wills - United States - 2007 - 646 pages
...God punishes the whole nation before saving the whole nation. If God wills that it [the war] continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn...
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Both Prayed to the Same God: Religion and Faith in the American Civil War

Robert J. Miller - History - 2007 - 264 pages
...scourge of war" to a guilty nation — North as well as South. And if God willed that the war continue until all the wealth piled by the bond-man's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn...
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

James W. Loewen - Education - 2007 - 464 pages
...pray — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn...
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