 | John Wien Forney - 1873 - 462 páginas
...Colonel Hodges, of Kentucky, April 4, 1864 : " I claim not to have controlled events, but confess that H events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three...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... | |
 | Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1876 - 734 páginas
...the 1st day of January, 1863. 267. President Lincoln himself said of this great liberating measure, " I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled ine. It is the work of God"f- And in one of the last clauses of the Proclamation itself he uses the... | |
 | Henry Wilson - 1877 - 814 páginas
...convictions forced upon him by a review of the past and the part he had acted. " I claim not," be said, " to have controlled events, but confess plainly that...years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what any party or any man expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now... | |
 | 1903 - 986 páginas
...colored element. I chose the latter * * * I claim not to have controlled events, but plainly confess that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of...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... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - 1881 - 654 páginas
...on our soil. And when they were too poor to take themselves away, our fathers, burdened as the young 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... | |
 | Osborn Hamiline Oldroyd - 1882 - 614 páginas
...AG HODGES. LETTER WRITTEN TO AG HODGES, APRIL 4, 1864. I ATTEMPT no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess...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... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1882 - 430 páginas
...minor matter, I should permit the wreck of the government, country, and Constitution altogether. ... I claim not to have controlled events, but confess...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... | |
 | Edward McPherson - 1882 - 680 páginas
...tale, I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. 1 claim not to have controlled events, but confet« plainly that events have controlled me. Now at the...expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seoms plain. If Coil now with the removal of a great wrong, and wills a No that we of the North, as... | |
 | George Washington Julian - 1884 - 396 páginas
...of April. It showed great progress as compared with previous utterances, but his declaration that " I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me," was displeasing to the more anti-slavery Republicans. They insisted that the Administration had no... | |
 | William Osborn Stoddard - 1884 - 716 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...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... | |
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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. Whither it is... 
