 | David Mayer Silver - 1998 - 288 strani
...Vallandigham as an agitator. "Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, [Lincoln asked Corning] while I must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert?"26 Even the friendly press found it difficult to be carried along by Lincoln's argument in... | |
 | Robert Francis Engs - 1999 - 236 strani
...York, Democrats," 12 June 1863, Abraham Lincoln, defending his suppression of the press, despaired, "Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts,...hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert?" Quoted in The Living Lincoln, ed. Paul M. Angle and Earl Schenck Miers (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1992),... | |
 | Jeffrey Schultz - 1999 - 512 strani
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 | William C. Davis - 1999 - 330 strani
...the women to howl about me." 33 "Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts," he protested, "while I must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induced him to desert?' The longer the war lasted, the more entrenched became his resolution against... | |
 | Michael Kent Curtis - 2000 - 544 strani
...armies cannot be maintained unless desertions shall be punished by the severe penalty of death. . . . Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts,...touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert?"98 It was a powerful point. But, judging by Vallandigham's case, it included antiwar political... | |
 | Terry Eastland - 2000 - 446 strani
...not be maintained unless desertion shall be punished by the severe penalty of death." Then he asked: "Must I shoot a simpleminded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a wiley agitator who induces him to desert? ... I think that in such a case, to silence the agitator,... | |
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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? 
