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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... "
Life of Abraham Lincoln: For the Young Man and the Sabbath School - Page 150
by William Cunningham Gray - 1868 - 200 pages
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One Electorate under God?: A Dialogue on Religion and American Politics

E.J. Dionne, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Kayla Meltzer Drogosz - Religion - 2004 - 260 pages
...second inaugural of Abraham Lincoln, in March 1865: "Yet if God wills that it [the Civil War] continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man's two hundred...be paid with another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousands years ago, so still it must be said 'the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous...
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Breaking Silence: Pastoral Approaches for Creating an Ethos of Peace

Chad R. Abbott, Everett Mitchell - Political Science - 2004 - 328 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 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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Lincoln's Last Months

William Charles Harris - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 332 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 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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Willing Obedience: Citizens, Soldiers, and the Progress of Consent in ...

Elizabeth D. Samet - History - 2004 - 300 pages
...certain end if the righteous "judgments of the Lord" will that the "mighty scourge of 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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Democracy and Its Friendly Critics: Tocqueville and Political Life Today

Peter Augustine Lawler - Political Science - 2004 - 208 pages
...toward the end of the speech, the war will simply last as long as God wants it to, which just may be 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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Alfred Kazin's America: Critical and Personal Writings

Alfred Kazin, Ted Solotaroff - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 593 pages
...pray — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away, Yer, if God wills that it contmue, until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unreqnired toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by...
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Fear: The History of a Political Idea

Corey Robin - Philosophy - 2004 - 336 pages
...eliminating slavery, he did not speak of negative foundations or a summum malum. Instead, he promised that "all the wealth piled by the bond-man's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk," that "every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn...
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"Yet You Would Not Return To Me,"

Michael P. Melon - Religion - 2004 - 270 pages
...pray—that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue, until alt the wealth piled by the bond-man's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of Mood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn...
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Unto a Good Land: A History of the American People, Volume 1: To 1900

David Edwin Harrell, Edwin S. Gaustad, John B. Boles, Sally Foreman Griffith - History - 2005 - 860 pages
...offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh!" If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence...bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with...
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Sins Of The Parents: Politics Of National Apologies In The U.S.

Brian Weiner - Political Science - 2009 - 258 pages
...offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh." If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence...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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