 | Henry Wilson - Antislavery movements - 1877 - 814 pages
...me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what any party or any man expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending...attest and revere the justice and goodness of God." Seldom have reverent loyalty to God and an unselfish and unpartisan fealty to equity found simpler... | |
 | Baptists - 1903 - 986 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." So it proved. Abraham Lincoln was a seer.... | |
 | John Wien Forney - Statesmen - 1873 - 452 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...attest and revere the justice and goodness of God." From his speech at the Philadelphia Fair, June 16, 1864 : " It is a pertinent question, often asked... | |
 | Osborn Hamiline Oldroyd - 1882 - 614 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...attest and revere the justice and goodness of God. When clos'd years since the fratricidal strife, One latest victim offer'd up his life, That plain,... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Biography & Autobiography - 1882 - 430 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." His memorable letter to Horace Greeley... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1882 - 680 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 seoms plain. If Coil now with the removal of a great wrong, and wills a No that we of the North, as... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 538 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...wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as yon of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein... | |
 | Thomas W. Handford - Biography - 1885 - 456 pages
...the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party or any man desired or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is...that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and review the justice and goodness of God." The culminating event in Lincoln's career... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Illustrated books - 1885 - 482 pages
...claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. if God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills that we of the North, as well as you of the South,...attest and revere the justice and goodness of God." i The history of the emancipation proclamation has already been told. It had been issued by him with... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Illustrated books - 1885 - 476 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...now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong,... | |
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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... 
