 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...  Lectures and Sermons - Page 348by William James Potter - 1895 - 372 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ervin S. Chapman - 1917 - 358 pages
...sagacity. 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 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
...sagacity. 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, 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
...Address" : "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 men, devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills... | |
 | William Eleazar Barton - Presidents - 1925 - 566 pages
...sagacity. 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...now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong,... | |
 | Rufus Barrett Stone - McKean County (Pa.) - 1926 - 378 pages
...been a century of political and social readjustments. In the midst of the Civil War Lincoln wrote : 'Now, at the end of three years' struggle the Nation's condition is not what cither party or any man expected or devised.' And at its close the historian, Draper, says : " 'Its... | |
 | Charles Austin Beard, Mary Ritter Beard - United States - 1927 - 848 pages
...of 1864: "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...can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain." It was fate that gave Lincoln the martyr's crown and the good fortune of being justified by events.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1927 - 474 pages
...sagacity. 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, desired or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the... | |
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