 | Gary Scott Smith - 2006 - 680 pages
...position on slavery was right, God would convince federal officials to make the necessary adjustments. "Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm...Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land," he insisted, could best resolve "our present difficulty."256 Despite three years of war, Lincoln told... | |
 | Vanessa B. Beasley - 2006 - 318 pages
...displayed in our favor." 21 Others spoke of God's "guardianship" and "watchful providence," called for a "firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land," and invoked the "continuance of His protection and grace for the future." 22 The notion of a chosen... | |
 | Various - 2007 - 228 pages
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 | Abraham Lincoln - 2007 - 140 pages
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 | Randall Norman Desoto - 2007 - 266 pages
...the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people. " l9 Lincoln ended his address saying, "Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm...competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue... | |
 | Carl Sandburg - 2007 - 476 pages
...all, think calmly and well, upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time . . . Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm...competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue... | |
 | Matthew S. Holland - 2007 - 340 pages
...legal order. Lincoln does, however (three sentences before his closing) specifically indicate that "Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm...competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty." Such talk of God and specific praise of Christianity can hardly be found in Lincoln's... | |
 | Clara Ingram Judson - 2007 - 212 pages
...identical old questions . . . are again upon you. . . . Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time . . . Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm...competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. . . . "I am loathe to close. We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 2007 - 304 pages
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Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine,... 
