 | Horace Greeley - 1867 - 848 páginas
...this tale, I attempt no compliment U> my own sagacity. PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S ANTI-SLAVERY GROWTH. 657 I claim not to have controlled events, but confess...struggle, the nation's condition is not what either perty or any man devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If... | |
 | Joseph M. Wilson - 1867 - 542 páginas
...words could better express our views than those of your lamented President, written in April. 1*04 : " I claim not to have controlled events, but confess...have controlled me. Now. at the end of three years' struri'le, the nation's condition is not what either party or any man devised or expected. God alone... | |
 | John William Draper - 1868 - 628 páginas
...President earnestly offered compensation to those whose slaves he foresaw must inevitably be made free. " I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me." Such, as we have just seen, was. his solemn declaration a short time before his death. He added,"The... | |
 | John William Draper - 1868 - 630 páginas
...President earnestly offered compensation to those whose slaves he foresaw must inevitably be made free. " I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me." Such, as we have just seen, was his solemn declaration a short time before his death. He added, "The... | |
 | Stella S. Flood Coatsworth - 1869 - 478 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... | |
 | 1869 - 868 páginas
...events, but confess plainly that events have con. trolled me. Now, at the end of three years' straggle, 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 wills the removal of a great... | |
 | John William Draper - 1870 - 716 páginas
...Lincoln, embodying a profound philosophical Lincoln. trut^ tbe result of ^s me(jitations on this war : " I claim not to have controlled events, but confess...nation's condition is not what either party or any man expected or devised. God alone can claim it." The French statesman to whom I have referred, and who... | |
 | 1891 - 1020 páginas
...goodness of God. Yours truly, A. LINCOLN. Those few words : " I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity ; I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me," furnish a key to the whole character and career of the man. He was no inspired Elijah or John Baptist,... | |
 | 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...what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great... | |
 | John Wien Forney - 1873 - 462 páginas
...Colonel Hodges, of Kentucky, April 4, 1 864 : " I claim not to have controlled events, but confess that H events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three...what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it" is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great... | |
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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... 
