 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 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, while I must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert?" There may or may not be some fallacy lurking here, but... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1864 - 868 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... | |
 | Stephen D. Carpenter - Antislavery movements - 1864 - 368 pages
...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, 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... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 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... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 518 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... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 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... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...severe penalty of death. The case requires, and the law and the Constitution sanction, this punishment. boskets, tubs, buckets, tin pans, and aprons; cursing, a wily agitator who induces him to desert? This is none the lessinjiirious when effected by getting... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1885 - 316 pages
...severe penalty of death. The case requires, and the law and the Constitution sanctions, 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... | |
 | Edward McPherson - History - 1865 - 680 pages
...severe penalty of death. 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 a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert? This is none the less injurious when effected by getting... | |
 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 496 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... | |
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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? 
