 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. \Vhither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that...  Anecdotes of Public Men - Page 170by John Wien Forney - 1873Full view - About this book
 | Martha Tarbell - 1912 - 518 pages
...while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. And again he said: Now at 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 tending seems plain. If God now wills the... | |
 | Charles Burke Elliott - Philippines - 1916 - 594 pages
...unexpected places. "I claim not to have controlled events," said Lincoln, "but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now at the end of three...nation's condition is not what either party or any man desired or expected." The world is never the same after as before a war. "A stricken field," says Lord... | |
 | Charles Burke Elliott - Philippines - 1916 - 592 pages
...unexpected places. "I claim not to have controlled events," said Lincoln, "but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now at the end of three...nation's condition is not what either party or any man desired or expected." The world is never the same after as before a war. "A stricken field," says Lord... | |
 | Ervin S. Chapman - 1917 - 680 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 w° of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial... | |
 | Ervin S. Chapman - 1917 - 704 pages
...51-52. compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three...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... | |
 | Ervin S. Chapman - 1917 - 358 pages
...29o-291. compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three...nation's condition is not what either party or any ma/i desired or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills... | |
 | John Wesley Hill - Biography & Autobiography - 1920 - 454 pages
...At the end of three years' struggle, the Nation's condition is not what either party saw or any one expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending...of the North as well as you of the South shall pay for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere... | |
 | John Wesley Hill - 1920 - 454 pages
...North as well as South, for the toleration of slavery. In a letter dated April, 1864, Lincoln wrote: At the end of three years' struggle, the Nation's condition is not what either party saw or any one expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1921 - 292 pages
...attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three...nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, devteed or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the... | |
 | Daniel Kilham Dodge - 1924 - 198 pages
...of the "Second Inaugural Address" : "I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three...nation's condition is not what either party, or any men, devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills... | |
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