 | Joseph M. Wilson - Presbyterian Church - 1867 - 534 pages
...words could better express our views than those of your lamented President, written in April. 1SC4 : " I claim not to have controlled events, but confess...now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as vou of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1867 - 848 pages
...this tale, I attempt no compliment U> my own sagacity. PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S ANTI-SLAVERY GROWTH. 657 I claim not to have controlled events, but confess...struggle, the nation's condition is not what either perty or any man devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If... | |
 | Joseph M. Wilson - Presbyterian Church - 1867 - 542 pages
...words could better express our views than those of your lamented President, written in April. 1*04 : " I claim not to have controlled events, but confess...have controlled me. Now. at the end of three years' struri'le, the nation's condition is not what either party or any man devised or expected. God alone... | |
 | John William Draper - United States - 1868 - 630 pages
...President earnestly offered compensation to those whose slaves he foresaw must inevitably be made free. " I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me." Such, as we have just seen, was his solemn declaration a short time before his death. He added, "The... | |
 | John William Draper - United States - 1868 - 628 pages
...President earnestly offered compensation to those whose slaves he foresaw must inevitably be made free. " I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me." Such, as we have just seen, was. his solemn declaration a short time before his death. He added,"The... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1869 - 868 pages
...events, but confess plainly that events have con. trolled me. Now, at the end of three years' straggle, the nation's condition, is not what either party or...now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for onr complicity in that... | |
 | Stella S. Flood Coatsworth - Chicago (Ill.) - 1869 - 478 pages
...was not in the verbal conversation. In telling this tale, I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess...nation's condition is not what either party or any man desired or expected. God alone can claim it. "Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the... | |
 | John William Draper - United States - 1870 - 716 pages
...Lincoln, embodying a profound philosophical Lincoln. trut^ tbe result of ^s me(jitations on this war : " I claim not to have controlled events, but confess...nation's condition is not what either party or any man expected or devised. God alone can claim it." The French statesman to whom I have referred, and who... | |
 | American literature - 1891 - 1020 pages
...goodness of God. Yours truly, A. LINCOLN. Those few words : " I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity ; I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me," furnish a key to the whole character and career of the man. He was no inspired Elijah or John Baptist,... | |
 | John Wien Forney - Bookbinding - 1873 - 462 pages
...Colonel Hodges, of Kentucky, April 4, 1 864 : " I claim not to have controlled events, but confess that H events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three...now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that... | |
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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... 
