 If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offences which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible...  Abraham Lincoln and His Presidency - Page 334by Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1903Full view - About this book
 | Erastus Buck Treat - 1872 - 404 pages
...man by whom the offence cometh." If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of these offences, which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through hia appointed time, he now wills to remove, and that he gives to both North and South this terrible... | |
 | Lewis O. Thompson - Caribbean Research Council - 1873 - 336 pages
...shall suppose that American slavery is cr,o of these offences, which, in the providence of God, mast needs come, but which, having continued through his...this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers... | |
 | John Carroll Power - 1873 - 432 pages
...be that 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...time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern... | |
 | Jeremiah Chaplin - History - 1874 - 524 pages
...by whom the offence cometh.7 " If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of these offences, which, in the providence of God, must needs come,...terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers... | |
 | Jeremiah Chaplin, Jane Dunbar Chaplin - Legislators - 1874 - 550 pages
...by whom the offence cometh.' " If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of these offences, which, in the providence of God, must needs come,...terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Indians of North America - 1875 - 408 pages
...man by whom the offence cometh.' If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of these offences, which, in the providence of God, must needs come,...this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers... | |
 | Daniel Webster Wilder - History - 1875 - 692 pages
...man by whom the offence cometh.' If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of these offences, which, in the providence of God, must needs come,...this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers... | |
 | James W. Fraser - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 390 pages
...man by whom the offence cometh!" If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offences which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed rime, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South, tbis terrible war, as the... | |
 | Stig Förster, Jorg Nagler - History - 2002 - 724 pages
...achieved only by hard war- indeed, by total war. Listen to these words from the second inaugural address: American Slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God . . . He now wills to remove [through] this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence... | |
 | Michael J. Perry - Philosophy - 2003 - 220 pages
...come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!' " Lincoln continued: If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offenses which, in...terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern there any departure from those divine attributes which the believers... | |
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