 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?  Abraham Lincoln - Page 192by John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1893Full view - About this book
 | 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,...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 - United States - 1861 - 598 pages
...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 ยป simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while 1 must not... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - History - 1863 - 18 pages
...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 - Copperhead movement - 1863 - 38 pages
...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 - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...armies. Long experience has shown that armies cannot be maintained unless desertions shall be punished henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive Government lessinjiirious when effected by getting a father, or brother, or friend, into a public meeting, and... | |
 | Stephen D. Carpenter - Antislavery movements - 1864 - 360 pages
...armies. Long expei ience has shown that armies cannot be maintained unless desertion shall be punished by the severe penalty of death. The case requires,...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 - Confederate States of America - 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 - Antislavery movements - 1864 - 368 pages
...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 - History - 1865 - 690 pages
...armies. Long experience bas shown that armies cannot be maintained unless desertion shall be punished by the severe penalty of death. The case requires,...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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1885 - 316 pages
...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 a simpleminded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch... | |
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