 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...  Macmillan's Magazine - Page 2231865Full view - About this book
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 518 pages
...the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected, God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now...will find therein new causes to attest and revere the ustice and goodness of God. Yours, truly, (Signed.) A. LINCOLN. An impression is quite common that... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - Biography & Autobiography - 1864 - 492 pages
...the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now...will find therein new causes to attest and revere tho ustice and goodness of God. Yours, truly, (Signed.) A. LINCOLN. An impression is quite common that... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch, Thomas Buchanan Read - Patriotic poetry, American - 1864 - 202 pages
...party or any man devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also...revere the justice and goodness of God. "Yours, truly, The following letter and poem were received on the 15th of February, 1864, and read in the Senate-Chamber,... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...the Nation's condition is not what either party or any man devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending, seems plain. If God now...that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodne:'s of God. Yours, truly. A. LINCOLN. When Mr. Lincoln's... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Campaign literature, 1864 - 1864 - 96 pages
...the nation's condition is not what either party or any man devised or expected: God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now...that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God." Let sceptics and critics pour contempt... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 pages
...the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now...wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as yon of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...the nation's condition is not what either l>erty or any man devised or expected. God alone can claim yon of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Confederate States of America - 1864 - 464 pages
...the nation's condition is m>t what either party, or any man devised, or expected. Ood alone can claim it. Whither it Is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills aUo tbat we of the North, as well as yon of the South, shall pay fairly fur our complicity In that... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 886 pages
...the nation's condition i* not what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending, seems plain. If God now...goodness of God. Yours truly, (Signed) A. LINCOLN. TO GENERAL HOOKER. The following letters were written by the President to General Hooker loon after... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1865 - 78 pages
...the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now...goodness of God. Yours, truly, (Signed) A. LINCOLN. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, DC, July j8M, 1864. To WHOM IT MAY CONCERN : — Any proposition which... | |
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