 | John Robert Irelan - 1888 - 718 str.
...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 devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Where it is tending, seems plain. If God now wills the... | |
 | Wendell Phillips Garrison, Francis Jackson Garrison - 1889 - 534 str.
...Congress and his second inaugural : " 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, devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the... | |
 | Wendell Phillips Garrison, Francis Jackson Garrison - 1889 - 468 str.
...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...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... | |
 | Southern Historical Society - 1889 - 458 str.
...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 str.
...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... | |
 | 1889 - 894 str.
...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... | |
 | Wendell Phillips Garrison - 1889 - 468 str.
...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 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1890 - 500 str.
...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 devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the... | |
 | John Warwick Daniel - 1890 - 68 str.
...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 str.
...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... | |
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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... 
