| Denton Jaques Snider - 1908 - 584 strani
...documents, especially in the later ones: "Must / shoot a simple-minded soldierboy who deserts, while / must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert?" Really Lincoln here naively voices the Folk-Soul as an Ego or Self, which is his own. Some political... | |
| De Alva Standwood Alexander - 1909 - 592 strani
...unlikely to come when l shall be blamed for having made too few arrests rather than too many. . . . Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts,...less injurious when effected by getting a father, a brother, or friend into a public meeting and then working upon his feelings till he is persuaded... | |
| Frederic Logan Paxson - 1911 - 268 strani
...more satisfactory to his fellow citizens than it was to the disciplinarians of the war department: "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,... | |
| Daniel Joseph Ryan - 1911 - 550 strani
...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...him to desert? This is none the less injurious when affected by getting a father, or a brother, or friend, into a public meeting and there working upon... | |
| Marion Mills Miller - 1913 - 448 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? ... I think that, in such a case, to silence the agitator and save the boy is not only constitutional,... | |
| James Kendall Hosmer - 1913 - 386 strani
...parried the remonstrances as they came with tact and logic. ' ' 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? This is not the less injurious when effected by getting a father, brother, or friend into a public meeting,... | |
| Rose Strunsky - 1914 - 392 strani
...penalty of death. The case requires, and the law and the Constitution sanction, this punishment. Shall 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... | |
| 1914 - 450 strani
...carrying out the sentence. To release him would be even worse. "Why," asked Lincoln, "must I shoot the simpleminded soldier boy who deserts while I must not touch a hair of the head of the wily agitator who induces him to desert?" The President's tact in handling the situation... | |
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