| 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... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - Copperhead movement - 1863 - 38 pages
...and the law and the Constuittion sanction, this punishment. Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier-boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a wily...meeting, and there working upon his feelings till he is persuadeā to write the soldier-boy that he is fighting in a bad cause, for a wicked Administration... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - History - 1863 - 18 pages
...and the law and the Constuittion sanction, this punishment. Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier-boy who deserts, while? I must not touch a hair of a wily...meeting, and there working upon his feelings till lie is persuaded to write the soldier-boy that he is fighting in a bad cause, for a wicked Administration... | |
| Frank Moore - United States - 1864 - 870 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,...he is persuaded to write the soldier boy that he is lighting in a bad cause, for a wicked administration of a contemptible government, too weak to arrest... | |
| Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 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,...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 - 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... | |
| Edward McPherson - History - 1865 - 678 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,...friend, into a public meeting, and there working upon bis feelings till he is pereuadcd to write the soldier boy that he is fighting in a bad cause, for... | |
| Edward McPherson - United States - 1865 - 676 pages
...severe penalty of death. The case requires, and the law and the 'Constitution Banction, this punishment. Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts,...by getting a father, or brother, or friend, into a publie meeting, and there working upon his feelings till he is persuaded to write the soldier boy that... | |
| Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 804 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,...feelings till he is persuaded to write the soldier hoy that he is fighting in a bad cause, for a wicked Administration of a contemptible Government, too... | |
| Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 836 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,...brother, or friend, into a public meeting, and there v working upon his feelings till he is per; suaded to write the soldier boy that he is fighting in... | |
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