 | Frederick William Seward, William Henry Seward - Statesmen - 1891 - 638 pages
...simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert. I think that in such a case, to silence the...not only constitutional, but withal a great mercy. * * * I think the time not unlikely to come when I shall be blamed for having made too few arrests,... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1892 - 574 pages
...public meeting, and there working upon his feelings until he is persuaded to write to the soldier-boy that he is lighting in a bad cause, for a wicked administration...not only constitutional, but, withal, a great mercy. ... I am not able to appreciate the danger apprehended that the American people will, by means of military... | |
 | charles carleton coffin - 1892 - 654 pages
...there working upon his feelings until he is persuaded to write to the soldier-boy that be is fighting in a bad cause, for a wicked administration of a contemptible...not only constitutional, but, withal, a great mercy. ... I am not able to appreciate the danger apprehended that the American people will, by means of military... | |
 | Willis Fletcher Johnson - 1892 - 558 pages
...there working upon his feelings until he is persuaded to write the soldier-boy that he is fighting in a bad cause, for a wicked administration of a contemptible...that, in such a case, to silence the agitator and to save the boy is not only constitutional, but withal a great mercy." That is what he did. He sent... | |
 | John Torrey Morse - Presidents - 1893 - 396 pages
...there working upon his feelings until he is persuaded to write the soldier boy that he is fighting in a bad cause, for a wicked administration of a contemptible...not only constitutional, but withal a great mercy." The Ohio Democrats found themselves confronted with this : — "Your nominee for governor ... is known... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 564 pages
...there working upon his feelings until he is persuaded to write to the soldier-boy that he is fighting in a bad cause, for a wicked administration of a contemptible...not only constitutional, but, withal, a great mercy. ... I am not able to appreciate the danger apprehended that the American people will, by means of military... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 608 pages
...there working upon his feelings until he is persuaded to write to the soldier-boy that he is fighting in a bad cause, for a wicked administration of a contemptible...not only constitutional, but, withal, a great mercy. ... I am not able to appreciate the danger apprehended that the American people will, by means of military... | |
 | Willis Fletcher Johnson - Politicians - 1893 - 588 pages
...there working upon his feelings until he is persuaded to write the soldier-boy that he is fighting in a bad cause, for a wicked administration of a contemptible...that, in such a case, to silence the agitator and to save the boy is not only constitutional, but withal a great mercy." That is what he did. He sent... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 782 pages
...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 of a contemptible...shall desert. I think that, in such a case; to silence tiie agitator and save the boy is not only constitutional, but withal a great mercy. If I be wrong... | |
 | Noah Brooks - 1894 - 532 pages
...simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert ? I think that, in such a case, to silence...not only constitutional, but withal a great mercy." In course of time, Vallandigham came secretly back to the United States, and soon began to vapor prodigiously... | |
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... till he is persuaded to write the soldier boy that he is fighting in a bad cause, for a wicked Administration of a contemptible Government, too weak to arrest and punish him if he shall desert. I think that in such a case to silence the agitator and... 
