 | Thomas W. Handford - 1885 - 456 páginas
...can be finer than the following words with which he closed a long letter to his friend, AG Hodges : " I claim not to have controlled events, but confess...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... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - 1888 - 718 páginas
...was not in the verbal conversation. In telling this tale, I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess...any man devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Where it is tending, seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that... | |
 | 1889 - 894 páginas
...colored element " ; who candidly avowed Northern ''complicity" in the wrongs of his time; who said, " I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me"; who had preached revolution in 1848, and revolutionized all things to save the Union in 1862 — I... | |
 | John William Jones - 1889 - 752 páginas
...colored element;' who candidly avowed Northern ' complicity' in the wrongs of his time; who said,' I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me'; who had preached revolution in 1848, and revolutionized all things to save the Union in 1862—I can... | |
 | Southern Historical Society - 1889 - 458 páginas
...colored element " ; who candidly avowed Northern '' complicity " in the wrongs of his time ; who said, " I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me"; who had preached revolution in 1848, and revolutionized all things to save the Union in 1862 — I... | |
 | John Warwick Daniel - 1890 - 68 páginas
...colored element" ; who candidly avowed northern " complicity " in the wrongs of his time ; who said, " I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me"; who had preached revolution in 1848, and revolutionized all things to save the Union in 1862 — I... | |
 | General Association of the Congregational Churches of Massachusetts - 1890 - 1146 páginas
...about it. The true temper I am sure for the great mass of men Is that of Abraham Lincoln, who said, " I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me." Mr. Seward, you remember, complained soon after the inauguration that the Administration was several... | |
 | Henry Clay Whitney - 1892 - 772 páginas
...was not in the verbal conversation. In telling this tale, I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess...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 Carleton Coffin - 1892 - 574 páginas
...mysterious girding of the Almighty upon them, whose behests they are set to fulfil." — HORACE BUSHNELL. " I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me." "No human council has devised, nor hath any mortal hand worked out, these great things. They are the... | |
 | charles carleton coffin - 1892 - 654 páginas
...mysterious girding of the Almighty upon them, whose behests they are set to fulfil." — HORACE BUBHNELL. " I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me." "No human council has devised, nor hath any mortal hand worked out, these great things. They are the... | |
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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. 
