 | Ronald C. White - History - 2006 - 257 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...South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that LINCOLN'S GREATEST SPEECH 97 wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere... | |
 | Gary Scott Smith - Religion - 2006 - 680 pages
...wrote a Kentucky newspaper editor in 1864, "but confess plainly that events have controlled me. ... 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."1" Lincoln believed that in directing history,... | |
 | David Brion Davis - Social Science - 2006 - 464 pages
...constitutionally restricted efforts to combat slavery, Lincoln concluded this now famous letter by saying, "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" (p. 282). 37. Guelzo, Lincoln's Emancipation... | |
 | Harold Holzer, Edna G. Medford, Frank J. Williams - History - 2006 - 180 pages
...feel ... I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me ... 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." 18 AND THE WAR CAME (CONFISCATION ACTS)... | |
 | Adam I. P. Smith - History - 2006 - 280 pages
...address, Lincoln wrote to a Kentucky newspaper editor on the subject of emancipation, speculating that "if God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and...of the North as well as you of the South shall pay for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new causes to attest and revere... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 896 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...seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrc*ig, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our... | |
 | Adam I. P. Smith - History - 2006 - 280 pages
...removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North as well as you of the South shall pay for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history...attest and revere the justice and goodness of God."" The President was capable of giving a moral lead, but the antislavery case was principally made by... | |
 | Garry Wills - United States - 2007 - 646 pages
...the South: 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.'7 He would rework those words for the Second... | |
 | George McKenna - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 454 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. If God alone wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we in the North as well as you of the... | |
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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... 
