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" No one need expect me to take any part in hanging or killing those men, even the worst of them. Frighten them out of the country, open the gates, let down the bars, scare them off (throwing up his hands as if scaring sheep). Enough lives have been sacrificed.... "
Freedom Triumphant: The Fourth Period of the War of the Rebellion from ... - Page 482
by Charles Carleton Coffin - 1890 - 506 pages
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The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet it

Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...expect me," said Lincoln, " to take any part in hanging or killing these men, even the worst of them. Frighten them out of the country, open the gates, let down the bars, scare them off." " Shoo," he added, throwing up lis large hands like a man scaring sheep. " We must xtinguish our resentments...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 153

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1882 - 634 pages
...participate.' As for the Southern leaders, none of them, he declared, should be punished with his consent. ' Frighten them out of the country, open the gates, let down the bars, scare them off,' said he, throwing up his hands as if scaring sheep.* That night he had promised to go with General...
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Freedom Triumphant: The Fourth Period of the War of the Rebellion ..., Volume 7

Charles Carleton Coffin - United States - 1890 - 536 pages
...States, and what should be done with Jefferson Davis and the members of the Confederate Government. " I have no desire to kill or hang them, not even the...very happy, talking of the past and of the future, lle said that when his four years as President were over he would go back to Illinois and be a county...
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Freedom Triumphant: The Fourth Period of the War of the Rebellion ..., Volume 7

Charles Carleton Coffin - History - 1890 - 548 pages
...States, and what should be done with Jefferson Davis and the members of the Confederate Government. " I have no desire to kill or hang them, not even the...with Mrs. Lincoln he drove through the suburbs of AVashington. He was very happy, talking of the past and of the future, He said that when his four years...
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A Library of American Literature: Literature of the republic, pt. 4, 1861 ...

Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson - American literature - 1890 - 708 pages
..."No one need expect he would take any part in hanging or killing these men, even the worst of them. Frighten them out of the country, open the gates, let down the bars, scare them off," said he, throwing up his hands as if scaring sheep. "Enough lives have been sacrificed ; we must extinguish...
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Abraham Lincoln; a History, by John G. Nicolay and John Hay, Volume 10

John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 554 pages
...No one need expect he would take any part in hanging or killing these men, even the worst of them. Frighten them out of the country, open the gates, let down the bars, scare them off," said he, throwing up his hands as if CHAP. xiv. scaring sheep. " Enough lives have been sacrificed;...
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Abraham Lincoln: A History, Volume 10

John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 558 pages
...let down the bars, scare them off," said he, throwing up his hands as if CHAP. xiv. scaring sheep. " Enough lives have been sacrificed; we must extinguish our resentments if we expeet harmony and union." i He deprecated the API. u,n»6. disposition he had seen in some quarters...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 173

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1891 - 580 pages
...the gates, let down the bars, scare them off,' said he, throwing up his hands as if scaring sheep. ' Enough lives have been sacrificed ; we must extinguish our resentments if we expect harmony and union.' He deprecated the disposition he had seen in some quarters to hector and dictate to the people of the...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 173

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1891 - 582 pages
...the gates, let down the bars, scare them off,' said he, throwing up his hands as if scaring sheep. ' Enough lives have been sacrificed ; we must extinguish our resentments if we expect harmony and union.' He deprecated the disposition he had seen in some quarters to hector and dictate to the people of the...
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abraham lincoln

charles carleton coffin - 1892 - 654 pages
...should be done with the Confederate leaders. " I have no desire," said the President, " to kill or hang them. Let us frighten them out of the country —...; we must extinguish our resentments if we expect to live in harmony and peace." In the afternoon the President, Avith Mrs. Lincoln, drove in his carriage...
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