 | William O. Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 540 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...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... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 536 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...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... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 538 pages
...conversation. In telling this tale, I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity, I claim not to haye controlled events, but confess plainly that events...now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as yon of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that... | |
 | David W. Lusk - Illinois - 1884 - 586 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... | |
 | Francis Wharton - Constitutional law - 1884 - 882 pages
...government, country, and constitution all together. . . . / claim not to liave controlled events, but confess that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of...nation's condition is not what either party or any man desired or expected." " I have been shown a letter," he said in an address three days before his assassination,... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Illustrated books - 1885 - 476 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...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, impartial history will... | |
 | Thomas W. Handford - Biography - 1885 - 456 pages
...can be finer than the following words with which he closed a long letter to his friend, AG Hodges : " 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 Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1888 - 718 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...any man devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Where it is tending, seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that... | |
 | Wendell Phillips Garrison, Francis Jackson Garrison - Abolitionists - 1889 - 534 pages
...Congress and his second inaugural : " In telling this tale, I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. 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 you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that... | |
 | Wendell Phillips Garrison, Francis Jackson Garrison - Abolitionists - 1889 - 468 pages
...compliment to my own History of ga.gacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess Administra- plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the...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... 
