 | Isaac N. Arnold - 1866 - 750 pages
...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 hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert? This is none the less injurious when effected by getting... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - 1867 - 776 pages
...severe penalty of death. The case requires, and the law and the Constitution sanction, tliis punishment. 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 none the less injurious when effected by getting... | |
 | 1899 - 978 pages
...belonged to them. Mr. Lincoln's argument then has never been effectively answered and never will be : " 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 ?" We do not characterize Mr. Atkinson as a wily agitator... | |
 | Edward McPherson - 1882 - 680 pages
...severe penalty of death. The case requires, and the law and the Constitution fund ¡on, this punishment. 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 none the less injurious when effected by getting... | |
 | Charles Maltby - 1884 - 340 pages
...upon the existence and vigor of which the life of the Nation depends. Must I shoot a simple-minded 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 and save the boy is not only constitutional but,... | |
 | James Gillespie Blaine - 1884 - 752 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1890 - 500 pages
...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 a wily agitator who induces him to desert? This is none the less injurious when effected by getting... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 548 pages
...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 touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert ? This is none the less injurious when effected by getting... | |
 | 1890 - 738 pages
...opinion was still more influenced in behalf of the president's action by his query: " Must I shoot the simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a wily agitator. who induces him to desert ? " Vallandigham was defeated by a majority of more than... | |
 | Frederick William Seward, William Henry Seward - 1891 - 638 pages
...and fresh public excitement. The President, replying to a communication on this subject, remarked: " 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... | |
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Must I shoot a simpleminded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert? 
