| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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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