 | John Channing Briggs - History - 2005 - 396 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 (7.282) Rather than... | |
 | G. Fox - Religion - 2005 - 128 pages
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 | William Eleazar Barton - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 444 pages
...Kentucky newspaper editor Albert G. Hodges that "If God now wills the removal of a great wrong [slavery], and wills also that we of the North as well as you...that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God" (296-97). A skeptic could fairly ask: Aren't... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 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 u,' /PH>, «^ •... | |
 | Richard Striner - History - 2006 - 320 pages
...end of three years struggle," Lincoln wrote, the condition of the nation "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."16 The theme he would use for his second... | |
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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... 
