 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 854 pages
...requires, and the law and the Constitution sanction, this punishment. Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert 1 This is none the less injurious when effected by getting a father, or brother, or friend into a public... | |
 | Noah Brooks - 1894 - 532 pages
...existence and vigor of which the life of the nation depends." And he added : " Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert ? I think that, in such a case, to silence the agitator... | |
 | Noah Brooks - 1895 - 346 pages
...stroke of his pen he revealed the kernel of the contention when he asked, "Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert ? " * When Vallandigham, passing through the Confederacy,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay, Noah Brooks - 1897 - 874 pages
...of death. Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier-boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert? This is none the less injurious when effected by getting father, or brother, or friend into a public meeting, and there working upon his feelings until he is... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay, Noah Brooks - 1898 - 874 pages
...of death. Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier-boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert? This is none the less injurious when effected by getting father, or brother, or friend into a public meeting, and there working upon his feelings until he is... | |
 | 1899 - 848 pages
...who yielded to this influence. " Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts," he said, " while I must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who...father, or brother, or friend into a public meeting, and there working upon his feelings until he is persuaded to write the soldier boy that he is fighting... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1899 - 594 pages
...be blamed for having made too few arrests rather than too many. . . . Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a...desert? This is none the less injurious when effected by 1 Letter to Erastus Corning and others, Complete Works, vol. ii. p. 351. 2 OR, vol. xxiii. part ii.... | |
 | Charles Eugene Hamlin - 1899 - 700 pages
...Lincoln knocked the ground from under the Copperheads' feet by asking, " Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert ?" He clinched his advantage by agreeing to release Vallandigham... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - 1899 - 478 pages
...case requires, and the law and the Constitution sanction this punishment. Must I shoot a simpleminded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert ? This is none the less injurious when effected by getting... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - 1899 - 478 pages
...case requires, and the law and the Constitution sanction this punishment. Must I shoot a simpleminded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert ? This is none the less injurious when effected by getting... | |
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Must I shoot a simpleminded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert? 
