 | Norman Hapgood - 1899 - 478 strani
...severe penalty of death. The 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 strani
...severe penalty of death. The 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... | |
 | Charles Eugene Hamlin - 1899 - 686 strani
...act " revolution." But Mr. 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... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1899 - 618 strani
...to Erastus Corning and others, Complete Works, vol. ii. p. 351. 2 OR, vol. xxiii. part ii. p. 316. getting a father, or brother, or friend into a public meeting and then working upon his feelings till he is persuaded to write the soldier boy that he is fighting in... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - 1902 - 888 strani
...severe penalty of death. The case requires, and the law and the Constitution sanction, this punishment. Must I shoot a simpleminded soldier boy who deserts,...agitator who induces him to desert ? This is none tha lees injurious when effected by getting a father, or brother, or friend, into a public meeting,... | |
 | John George Nicolay - 1902 - 606 strani
...analysis, a single sympathetic phrase of the President's reply had a much greater popular effect : "Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts,...hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert?" The term so accurately described the character of Vallandigham, and the pointed query so touched the... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1905 - 934 strani
...the President asked in his reply to the Albany committee, "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 ? " That pointed query touched the heart of 1863] Special powers conferred on the President. 575 every... | |
 | William Henry Smith - 1903 - 476 strani
...severe penalty of death.1 The case requires, and the law and the Constitution sanction, this punishment. Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts...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, but... | |
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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? 
