 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 564 strani
...nhoot a simple-minded soldier-boy w!io d&ierts, and not touch a hair of the wily agitator wJw induce him to desert? " This is none the less injurious when effected by getting a father, brother, or friend into a public meeting, and there working upon his feelings until he is persuaded... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 608 strani
...simple-minded toldier-boy who deserts, and not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces hint to deaert ? " This is none the less injurious when effected by getting a father, brother, or friend into a public meeting, and there working upon his feelings until he is persuaded... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 854 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,...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 strani
...damaging the army, upon the 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 782 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, while I must not toucji a-lmir of a wily agitator who induces him to desert! This is none the less injurious when effected... | |
 | Noah Brooks - 1895 - 372 strani
...political classics. With a single 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 strani
...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 strani
...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... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1899 - 624 strani
...unlikely to come when I shall be blamed for having made too few arrests rather than too many. . . . Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts,...desert? This is none the less injurious when effected by 1 Letter to Erastns Corning and others, Complete Works, vol. ii. p. 351. ! OR, vol. xxiii. part ii.... | |
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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? 
