 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. Whither it is...  Life and Administration of Abraham Lincolnpor George Washington Bacon - 1865Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | William O. Stoddard - 1884 - 538 páginas
...conversation. In telling this tale, I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity, I claim not to haye controlled events, but confess plainly that events...now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as yon of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that... | |
 | David W. Lusk - 1884 - 586 páginas
...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 plainly...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... | |
 | Francis Wharton - 1884 - 882 páginas
...government, country, and constitution all together. . . . / claim not to liave controlled events, but confess that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of...nation's condition is not what either party or any man desired or expected." " I have been shown a letter," he said in an address three days before his assassination,... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - 1885 - 482 páginas
...the verbal conversation. in telling this tale, i attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. i claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly...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, impartial history will... | |
 | Thomas W. Handford - 1885 - 456 páginas
...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 plainly...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
...the verbal conversation. In telling this tale, I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly...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... | |
 | Wendell Phillips Garrison, Francis Jackson Garrison - 1889 - 534 páginas
...his second inaugural : " In telling this tale, I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly...now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that... | |
 | Wendell Phillips Garrison, Francis Jackson Garrison - 1889 - 468 páginas
...compliment to my own History of ga.gacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess Administra- plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the...now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that... | |
 | Wendell Phillips Garrison - 1889 - 468 páginas
...controlled events, but confess Administm- plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of ''482^ three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not...now wills the removal of a great Wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that... | |
 | Southern Historical Society - 1889 - 458 páginas
...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... | |
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