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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 bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every... "
Representative American Orations to Illustrate American Political History - Page 245
by Alexander Johnston - 1884
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Abraham Lincoln Deals with Foreign Affairs: A Diplomat in Carpet Slippers

Jay Monaghan - History - 1997 - 538 pages
...South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the...bondsman'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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Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History

Rogers M. Smith - Political Science - 1997 - 740 pages
...But with the sternness of an Old Testament prophet, Lincoln warned, "If God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman'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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God's New Israel: Religious Interpretations of American Destiny

Conrad Cherry - History - 1998 - 428 pages
...South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the...bondsman'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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The World's Great Speeches

Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - History - 1999 - 978 pages
...there any departure from those divine attributes which the helievers in a living God always ascrihe to Him? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that...bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall he sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall he paid by another drawn...
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The Unsteady March: The Rise and Decline of Racial Equality in America

Philip A. Klinkner, Rogers M. Smith - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 446 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 bondsman'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 on Lincoln

Paul M. Zall - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 220 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 bondsman'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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Abolitionism and American Politics and Government

John R. McKivigan - Antislavery movements - 1999 - 444 pages
...and whose chosen leader, in the midst of the carnage, declared that "if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman'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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The American Reader: Words That Moved a Nation

Diane Ravitch - Reference - 2000 - 662 pages
...South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the...bondsman'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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Presidential Documents: The Speeches, Proclamations, and Policies that Have ...

Jim F. Watts, Fred L. Israel - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 416 pages
...shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a riving God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope, fervently...bondsman'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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The Men of Secession and Civil War, 1859-1861

James L. Abrahamson - History - 2000 - 228 pages
...slavery that both sections had so long tolerated. If so, it might be God's will that the war continue "until all the wealth piled by the bondsman'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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