| Robert Henry Browne - United States - 1907 - 660 pages
...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...history will find therein new causes to attest and reverse the justice and. goodness of God.. Yours truly, ABRAHAM LINCOLN. SPEECH OF SENATOR OH BROWNING,... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 332 pages
...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...that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God. Yours truly, A. Lincoln. HOFFMAN, HW Executive... | |
| Henry Bryan Binns - 1907 - 428 pages
...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...that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God." And on the next day he wrote, in answer... | |
| Charles Austin Beard, Mary Ritter Beard - United States - 1927 - 848 pages
...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. Whither it is tending seems plain." It was fate that gave Lincoln the martyr's crown and the good fortune of being justified by events.... | |
| Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1977 - 292 pages
...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...that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God. Yours truly, A. Lincoln 93. A Change of... | |
| Robert H. Abzug, Stephen E. Maizlish - History - 1986 - 324 pages
...had been completely abolished. Lincoln himself voiced this belief when he wrote to a Kentucky editor: "If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and...causes to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God."2 When the Thirty-eighth Congress convened in December 1863, the Radical Republicans launched... | |
| Waldo W. Braden - History - 1993 - 132 pages
...party or any man devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whether it is tending seems planned. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and...that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God.* 9 This passage anticipated the central... | |
| John Burt - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 264 pages
...that continued in the struggle. For instance in a letter of 1864 to the editor in Kentucky, he says "If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as the South, shall pay finally for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein... | |
| Isaac Newton Arnold - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 492 pages
...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...causes to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God."1 The history of the emancipation proclamation has already been told. It had been issued by him... | |
| Paul F. Boller - History - 1996 - 292 pages
...purposes: "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...that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God."lz When Lincoln came to give his Second... | |
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