 | Wendell Phillips Garrison - 1889 - 468 pages
...controlled events, but confess Administm- plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of ''482^ three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not...plain. If God now wills the removal of a great Wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 500 pages
...conversation. In telling this tale, I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events...plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as 30 well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity... | |
 | Henry Clay Whitney - Booksellers and bookselling - 1892 - 772 pages
...conversation. In telling this tale, I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events...nation's condition is not what either party or any man desired or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1892 - 574 pages
...to write out what he had said to them. Very remarkable the closing sentences : " I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events...years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what cither party or any man devised or expected. God aloue can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain.... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 564 pages
...to write out what he had said to them. Very remarkable the closing sentences : " I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events...plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North as well as you of the South shall pay fairly for our complicity... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 608 pages
...to write out what he had said to them. Very remarkable the closing sentences : " I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events...plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North as well as you of the South shall pay fairly for our complicity... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 410 pages
...conversation. In telling this tale I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events...plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 pages
...conversation. In telling this tale, I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events...plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 854 pages
...conversation. In telling this tale I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events...plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1894 - 268 pages
...conversation. In telling this tale, I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events...plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our. complicity... | |
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I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have 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... 
