 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1888 - 718 pages
...Book of God, which yon present." (In Mr. Lincoln's remarks to colored men of Baltimore in 1864.) " If God 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,... | |
 | Wendell Phillips Garrison - 1889 - 468 pages
...me. Now, at the end of ''482^ 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." * . 1 " Mr. [Samuel J.] May and I have read together, this morning, the President's letter of the 4th... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 500 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...great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as 30 well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will... | |
 | charles carleton coffin - 1892 - 654 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." General Grant returned from the West to take supreme command of military affairs. " What sort of a... | |
 | Henry Clay Whitney - Booksellers and bookselling - 1892 - 772 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...attest and revere the justice and goodness of God !" while on the same pages will likewise be found a record of belief in the constitutional obligations... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1892 - 574 pages
...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. If...fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial hislory will find therein new causes to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God." General... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 564 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." General Grant returned from the West to take supreme command of military affairs. "What sort of a man... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 608 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." General Grant returned from the West to take supreme command of military affairs. "What sort of a man... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 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. From an Address at a Sanitary Fair in Baltimore.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 782 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. April 5, 1864.... | |
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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... 
