 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...  Abraham Lincoln - Page 402by Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 542 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 848 pages
...tale, I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but conjfcss plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the...claim it. Whither it is tending, seems plain. If God DOW wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1865 - 866 pages
...tale, I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled VOL. IT. — 29 A events, but confess plainly that events have controlled...or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending-seems plaiu. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North,... | |
 | Thomas Mears Eddy - 1865 - 24 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... | |
 | Stella S. Coatsworth - Chicago (Ill.) - 1865 - 636 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... | |
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1865 - 234 pages
...come," &c, — he concludes with these words, concerning the most Christian deed of his whole life : — "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... | |
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - Presidents United States Biography - 1865 - 232 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...the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that wex of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 886 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...end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition i* not what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending,... | |
 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 480 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...events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years7 struggle, the Nation's condition is not what either party or any man devised or expected. God... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1865 - 864 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...events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years9 struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, devised or expected.... | |
 | Edward McPherson - History - 1865 - 680 pages
...tale, I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled éventa, bat confer« plainly that events have controlled me. Now at the...of three years* struggle, the nation's condition Is nut what cither party, or any man devised, or expected. God aJone can claim it. Whither ft is tending... | |
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