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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... "
The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives ... - Page 300
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Scribner's Popular History of the United States, Volume 5

William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay, Noah Brooks - United States - 1897 - 874 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." Arguments like this, appealing as they did to the commonsense and the deeper feelings of the people,...
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Scribner's Popular History of the United States: From the Earliest ..., Volume 5

William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay, Noah Brooks - United States - 1898 - 874 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 government, too weak to arrest and punish liim if he shall desert. I think that in such a case to silence the sigitator and save the boy is not...
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Abraham Lincoln, the Man of the People

Norman Hapgood - Presidents - 1899 - 478 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...not only constitutional, but withal a great mercy. . . . Nor am I able to appreciate the danger apprehended by this meeting, that the American people...
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McClure's Magazine, Volume 13

Intellect - 1899 - 848 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." Another cause he never forgot was that mortal homesickness which so often ate the very heart out of...
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Abraham Lincoln, the Man of the People

Norman Hapgood - Presidents - 1899 - 478 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...not only constitutional, but withal a great mercy. . . . Nor am I able to appreciate the danger apprehended by this meeting, that the American people...
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History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850....: 1862-1864

James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1899 - 618 pages
...persuaded to write the soldier boy that he is fighting in a bad cause for a wicked administration and contemptible government, too weak to arrest and punish him if he shall desert." * While the Republicans of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, meeting one extreme opinion with another, generally...
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The Life of Abraham Lincoln: Drawn from Original Sources and ..., Volume 3

Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 278 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." Another cause he never forgot was that mortal homesickness which so often ate the very heart out of...
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The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 3

Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 276 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." Another cause he never forgot was that mortal homesickness which so often ate the very heart out of...
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The Life of Abraham Lincoln

Henry Ketcham - Presidents - 1901 - 516 pages
...simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, and not touch a hair of the 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. " Early in the war he pardoned a boy who was sentenced to be shot for sleeping at his post as sentinel....
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Life of Abraham Lincoln: His Early History, Political Career, Speeches in ...

Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - Presidents - 1902 - 888 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...agitator and save the boy is not only constitutional, but withaJ a great mercy. If I bs wrong.on this question of constitutional power, my error lies in believing...
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