 | Wendell Phillips Garrison - 1889 - 468 pages
...controlled events, but confess Administm- plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of ''482^ three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not...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... | |
 | Southern Historical Society - Confederate States of America - 1889 - 458 pages
...colored element " ; who candidly avowed Northern '' complicity " in the wrongs of his time ; who said, " I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me"; who had preached revolution in 1848, and revolutionized all things to save the Union in 1862 — I... | |
 | Confederate States of America - 1889 - 894 pages
...colored element " ; who candidly avowed Northern ''complicity" in the wrongs of his time; who said, " I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me"; who had preached revolution in 1848, and revolutionized all things to save the Union in 1862 — I... | |
 | John William Jones - 1889 - 752 pages
...colored element;' who candidly avowed Northern ' complicity' in the wrongs of his time; who said,' I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me'; who had preached revolution in 1848, and revolutionized all things to save the Union in 1862—I can... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 500 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 30 well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that... | |
 | John Warwick Daniel - Confederate States of America - 1890 - 68 pages
...colored element" ; who candidly avowed northern " complicity " in the wrongs of his time ; who said, " I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me"; who had preached revolution in 1848, and revolutionized all things to save the Union in 1862 — I... | |
 | Henry Clay Whitney - Booksellers and bookselling - 1892 - 772 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... | |
 | charles carleton coffin - 1892 - 654 pages
...mysterious girding of the Almighty upon them, whose behests they are set to fulfil." — HORACE BUBHNELL. " I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me." "No human council has devised, nor hath any mortal hand worked out, these great things. They are the... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1892 - 574 pages
...mysterious girding of the Almighty upon them, whose behests they are set to fulfil." — HORACE BUSHNELL. " I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me." "No human council has devised, nor hath any mortal hand worked out, these great things. They are the... | |
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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... 
