 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
 | the late Don E. Fehrenbacher - History - 2002 - 486 pages
...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 bond-man'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... | |
 | Hubert Harrison - History - 2001 - 510 pages
...we pray, that the terrible 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... | |
 | Frank Trommler, Elliott Shore - History - 2001 - 372 pages
...answered, and therefore he issued a warning to his country: Yet, if God wills that it [the war] continue until all the wealth piled by the bond-man'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... | |
 | Steven D. Smith - Law - 2001 - 250 pages
...a speedy end must defer to this larger faith. Consequently, "if God wills that [the war] continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man'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... | |
 | Alan G. Gross, Ray D. Dearin - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 186 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...bond-man's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn by the lash, shall be paid by another drawn... | |
 | Leroy T. Howe - Medical - 2003 - 180 pages
...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 bond-man's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with... | |
 | Robert F. Engs, Randall M. Miller - History - 2002 - 226 pages
...Taking the Oath at His Second Inauguration," Harper's Weekly, March 18, 1865. wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man'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... | |
 | Stig Förster, Jorg Nagler - History - 2002 - 724 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 bond-man'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... | |
 | Eliot A. Cohen - Civil supremacy over the military - 2002 - 312 pages
...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... | |
 | Daniel Patte, Gary A. Phillips, Nicole Wilkinson Duran - Religion - 2002 - 424 pages
...explains its immense suffering as the work of Divine Justice: "Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man'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... | |
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