...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...of the North as well as you of the South, shall pay dearly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and...

...discovered a reason for the war's long duration. In a letter to a Kentuckian in April 1864 he observed, "Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's...man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it. Wither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that...

...Catton, "This Hallowed Ground" New York: Pocket Books, Inc. 1956, p. 488] In the same vein Lincoln wrote, "...the nation's condition is not what either party,...man, devised or expected. God alone can claim it." ["The Living Words of Abraham Lincoln" Hallmark Editions, 1967, p. 43] This fits well with his upbringing....

...war that seemed to promise no end, "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."...

...attempt no complement 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...man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it. Wither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that...

...nation's condition is not what either party, or what any man, devised or expecred, God alone can claim it, If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and...that we of the North as well as you of the South, will pay fairly for our complicity m that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to atrest...

...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...man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it. (7.282) In this cautious yet logically insistent allusion to providential sanction, Lincoln defended...

...attempt no complement 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...South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that LINCOLN'S GREATEST SPEECH 97 wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere...

...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...seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrc*ig, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our...

...address, Lincoln wrote to a Kentucky newspaper editor on the subject of emancipation, speculating that "if God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and...of the North as well as you of the South shall pay for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new causes to attest and revere...