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e the conflict itself should cease. each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. both read the same bible and pray to the same god, and each invokes his aid against the other. it may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just god39。s assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men39。s faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. that of neither has been answered fully. the almighty has his own purposes. woe unto the world because of offenses。 for it must need be that offenses e, but woe to that man by whom the offense et. if we shall suppose that american slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of god, must needs e, but which, having continued through his appointed time, he now wills to remove, and that he gives to both north and south this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern there in any departure from those spanine attributes which the believers in a living god always ascribe to him? fondly do we hope, fe