| 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
...Constitution sanctions this punishment. "Must I shoot » simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while 1 must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces...public meeting, and there working upon his feelings till he is persuaded to write the soldier boy that he is fighting in a bad cause, for a wicked Administration... | |
| 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,...public meeting, and there working upon his feelings till he is persuaded 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...public 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... | |
| 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...public meeting, and there working upon his feelings till he is persuadeâ to write the soldier-boy that he is fighting in a bad cause, for a wicked Administration... | |
| 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,...public meeting, and there working upon his feelings till he is persuaded to write the soldier boy that he is fighting in a bad cause, for a wicked .Administration... | |
| 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,...public meeting, and there working upon his feelings till he is persuaded to write the soldier boy that he is fighting in a bad cause, for a wicked Administration... | |
| 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,...public meeting, and there working upon his feelings till he is persuaded to write the soldier boy that he is fighting in a bad cause, for a wicked Administration... | |
| Edward McPherson - Confederate States of America - 1864 - 462 pages
...and the Constitution sanction, this punishment. Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserta, while I must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who...public meeting, and there working upon his feelings till he is persuaded to write the soldier boy that he is fighting in a bad cause, for a wicked Administration... | |
| 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... | |
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