 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 332 pages
...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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 410 pages
...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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 338 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry William Elson - 1908 - 1018 pages
...of the universal rule of inflicting the death penalty for army desertions, he said, " Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must...hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert ? " Vallandigham did not remain long in the South. He escaped in a blockade runner and repaired to... | |
 | De Alva Standwood Alexander - 1909 - 592 pages
...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, 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... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - 1911 - 336 pages
...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... | |
 | Frederic Logan Paxson - 1911 - 266 pages
...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, 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,... | |
 | William Estabrook Chancellor - 1912 - 618 pages
...whereupon Lincoln wrote another of his wonderful letters, — "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?" Nor was this mere rhetoric. More than one-half of all the soldiers of the North were less than nineteen... | |
 | Marion Mills Miller - 1913 - 448 pages
...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? ... I think that, in such a case, to silence the agitator... | |
 | Rose Strunsky - 1914 - 392 pages
...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...hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert? This is none the less injurious when effected by getting a father, a brother or friend into a public... | |
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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? 
