 Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until...  Abraham Lincoln and His Presidency - Page 334by Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1903Full view - About this book
 | Jesse Truesdell Peck - United States - 1868 - 774 pages
...we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn... | |
 | Gilbert Haven - History - 1869 - 680 pages
...afterward, President Lincoln, in his last inaugural, thus spoke: — Yet if God wills that the war continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn... | |
 | Gilbert Haven - Slavery - 1869 - 714 pages
...afterward, President Lincoln, in his last inaugural, thus spoke : — Yet If God wills that the war continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty ycara of unrequited toll shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash (hall be... | |
 | Josiah Rhinehart Sypher - Elocution - 1870 - 396 pages
...that he gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from...bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn... | |
 | Philip Lawrence - English language - 1870 - 422 pages
...that he gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from...bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn... | |
 | Theodore Tilton - American essays - 1870 - 340 pages
...it cannot fade from the memory of this generation : " If you will," says he, ".that the war continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn... | |
 | Literature - 1873 - 860 pages
...fervently do we pray, that the mighty scourge of war may pass away. Yet if God will that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid with another drawn... | |
 | 1921 - 750 pages
...we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1871 - 478 pages
...niothris mingled with the groans of the victim», said, •' Yet, if God wills that the war confia» until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall l>e pai<l Ц another drawn... | |
 | African Americans - 1871 - 370 pages
...attends them here, for Liberia is the land of the negro, and the white man is there a foreigner. Of "all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil" we can surely spare a small part to aid in restoring him to the ancient home of his race. He... | |
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