 | Lucas E. Morel - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 272 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.56 He would repeat the sentiment two weeks... | |
 | Lowell Harrison - History - 2000 - 346 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...of the North as well as you of the South, shall pay dearly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and... | |
 | John Kane - Philosophy - 2001 - 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.82 With the war all but won and Reconstruction... | |
 | the late Don E. Fehrenbacher - History - 2002 - 486 pages
...political arena: "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."133 Lincoln was not a conventional Christian... | |
 | James M. McPherson - History - 1995 - 188 pages
...condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it. Wither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal...that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God."36 Lincoln's new vision was fully revealed... | |
 | David J Eicher - History - 2002 - 992 pages
.... . 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." CHAPTER 2 2 Grant M wes into the Wilder... | |
 | Jeffrey F. Meyer - Religion - 2001 - 382 pages
...questions with which Lincoln had struggled so long. In a letter to Albert Hodges in Kentucky, he wrote, "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."40 He expressed that idea with greater... | |
 | Ward McAfee - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 258 pages
...condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it. Wither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal...that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God." Abraham Lincoln to Albert G. Hodges of... | |
 | Alfred Kazin, Ted Solotaroff - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 593 pages
...nation's condition is not what either party, or what any man, devised or expecred, God alone can claim it, If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and...that we of the North as well as you of the South, will pay fairly for our complicity m that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to atrest... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
