| Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 946 strani
...one of them was a sentence which probably went further with the people of the North than any other: " Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts,...hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert?" There may or may not be some fallacy lurking here, but it must not be supposed that this sentence came... | |
| Horace Greeley - 1866 - 842 strani
...severe penalty of death. The case requires, and the law and the Constitution sanction, this punishment. Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts,...agitator who induces him to desert? This is none the lessinjiirious when effected by getting a father, or brother, or friend, into a public meeting, and... | |
| Stephen D. Carpenter - 1864 - 368 strani
...severe penalty of death. The case requires, and the law ami the constitution sanction, this punishmemt. Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a willy agitator who induces him to desert? This is none the less injurious when effected by getting... | |
| Edward McPherson - 1865 - 680 strani
...severe penalty of death. The case requires, and the law and the Constitution sanction, this punishment. Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts,...friend, into a public meeting, and there working upon bis feelings till he is pereuadcd to write the soldier boy that he is fighting in a bad cause, for... | |
| Edward McPherson - 1865 - 676 strani
...severe penalty of death. The case requires, and the law and the 'Constitution Banction, this punishment. Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts,...by getting a father, or brother, or friend, into a publie meeting, and there working upon his feelings till he is persuaded to write the soldier boy that... | |
| Horace Greeley - 1866 - 836 strani
...severe penalty of death. The case requires, and the law and the Constitution sanction, this punishment. Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts,...brother, or friend, into a public meeting, and there v working upon his feelings till he is per; suaded to write the soldier boy that he is fighting in... | |
| Isaac N. Arnold - 1866 - 750 strani
...case very strongly of preventing men from inducing desertion. He says : " Must I shoot a simple minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a...less injurious when effected by getting a father, a brother, or friend into a public meeting, and there working on his feelings till he is persuaded... | |
| Isaac N. Arnold - 1866 - 748 strani
...case very strongly of preventing men from inducing desertion. He says: " Must I shoot a simple minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a...less injurious when effected by getting a father. a brother, or friend into a public meeting, and there working on his feelings till he is persuaded... | |
| HORACE GREELEY - 1866 - 808 strani
...severe penalty of death. The case requires, and the law and the Constitution sanction, this punishment. Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts,...who induces him to desert ? This is none the less inj urious when effected by getting a father, or brother, or friend, into a public meeting, and there... | |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 568 strani
...vigor of which the life of the nation depends." Furthermore: "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? I think that, in such a case, to silence the agitator and save the boy, is not only constitutional,... | |
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