 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 946 pages
...one of them was a sentence which probably went further with the people of the North than any other: " Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts,...hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert?" There may or may not be some fallacy lurking here, but it must not be supposed that this sentence came... | |
 | Orville James Victor - 1861 - 598 pages
...military force— by armies. Long experience has shown that armies cannot be maintained unless desertions shall be punished by the severe penalty of death....The case requires, and the law and the Constitution sanctions this punishment. "Must I shoot » simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while 1 must not... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1863 - 18 pages
...military force—by armies. Long experience has shown that armies cannot be maintained unless desertions shall be punished by the severe penalty of death. The case requires, and the law and the Constuittion sanction, this punishment. Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier-boy who deserts, while?... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1863 - 38 pages
...military force — by armies. Long experience has shown that armies cannot be maintained unless desertions shall be punished by the severe penalty of death. The case requires, and the law and the Constuittion sanction, this punishment. Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier-boy who deserts, while... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1866 - 842 pages
...military force — by armies. Long experience has shown that armies cannot be maintained unless desertions shall be punished by the severe penalty of death....agitator who induces him to desert? This is none the lessinjiirious when effected by getting a father, or brother, or friend, into a public meeting, and... | |
 | Stephen D. Carpenter - 1864 - 360 pages
...by military force — by armies. Long expei ience has shown that armies cannot be maintained unless desertion shall be punished by the severe penalty...boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a willy agitator who induces him to desert? This is none the less injurious when effected by getting... | |
 | Edward McPherson - 1864 - 462 pages
...experience has shown that armies cannot be maintained unless desertion shall be punished by the eerere penalty of death. The case requires, and the law and...punishment. Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserta, while I must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert? This is none the... | |
 | Stephen D. Carpenter - 1864 - 368 pages
...by military force — by armies. Long experience has shown that armies cannot be maintained unless desertion shall be punished by the severe penalty of death. The case requires, and the law ami the constitution sanction, this punishmemt. Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts,... | |
 | Edward McPherson - 1865 - 690 pages
...by military force — by armies. Long experience bas shown that armies cannot be maintained unless desertion shall be punished by the severe penalty...shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I mnst not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert? This is none the less injurious... | |
 | Edward McPherson - 1865 - 680 pages
...by military force — by armies. Long experience has shown that armies cannot be maintained unless desertion shall be punished by the severe penalty...The case requires, and the law and the Constitution sun-lion, this punishment. Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch... | |
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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... 
