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" 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 every... "
Both Prayed to the Same God: Religion and Faith in the American Civil War - Page ix
by Robert J. Miller - 2007 - 243 pages
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History of American Political Thought

Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - Philosophy - 2003 - 852 pages
...pray — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue, toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn...
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A House Divided: The Antebellum Slavery Debates in America, 1776-1865

Mason I. Lowance - 572 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...
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Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President

Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 532 pages
..."offense"; yet he could not argue that "this terrible war" had not been given alike to both North and South, "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 with another drawn...
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The Deserter: Murder at Gettysburg

Jane Langton - Fiction - 2003 - 348 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...
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Heir to the Fathers: John Quincy Adams and the Spirit of Constitutional ...

Gary V. Wood - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 268 pages
...— that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue, until 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 by the lash, shall be paid by another drawn...
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One Electorate under God?: A Dialogue on Religion and American Politics

E.J. Dionne, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Kayla Meltzer Drogosz - Religion - 2004 - 260 pages
...part of the second inaugural of Abraham Lincoln, in March 1865: "Yet if God wills that it [the Civil 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 with another drawn...
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Willing Obedience: Citizens, Soldiers, and the Progress of Consent in ...

Elizabeth D. Samet - History - 2004 - 300 pages
...justice to its certain end if the righteous "judgments of the Lord" will that the "mighty scourge of 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...
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Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism

Susan Jacoby - History - 2004 - 433 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...
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A Religious History of the American People

Sydney E. Ahlstrom - Religion - 2004 - 1220 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 with another drawn...
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The War on Terrorism and the Terror of God

Lee Griffith - Political Science - 2004 - 420 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...
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