 | Marion Mills Miller - History - 1913 - 444 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...agitator and save the boy is not only constitutional, but a great mercy. In fine, said the President: I can no more be persuaded that the Government can constitutionally... | |
 | Thomas Dixon - 1913 - 620 pages
...simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, and refuse to touch a wily agitator who induces him to commit the crime. To silence the agitator and save the boy is not only Constitutional, but withal a great mercy." Volunteers were no longer to be had and a draft of five hundred thousand men had been ordered for the... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1913 - 626 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." i While the Republicans of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, meeting one extreme opinion with another, generally... | |
 | Rose Strunsky - Presidents - 1914 - 392 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 will,... | |
 | Edwin Wiley, Irving Everett Rines, Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1916 - 590 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." t The arrest and sentence of Vallandigham produced a profound sensation throughout the country. There... | |
 | Nathaniel Wright Stephenson - Confederate States of America - 1918 - 320 pages
...persuaded to write the soldier boy that he is fighting in a bad cause for a wicked administration and a contemptible government, too weak to arrest and...not only constitutional, but, withal, a great mercy. His real argument may be summed up in these words of his : You ask, in substance, whether I really... | |
 | Allen Johnson, Gerhard Richard Lomer, Charles William Jeffreys - United States - 1918 - 298 pages
...persuaded to write the soldier boy that he is fighting in a bad cause for a wicked administration and a contemptible government, too weak to arrest and...not only constitutional, but, withal, a great mercy. His real argument may be summed up in these words of his: You ask, in substance, whether I really claim... | |
 | Nathaniel Wright Stephenson - Biography & Autobiography - 1918 - 340 pages
...persuaded to write the soldier boy that he is fighting in a bad cause for a wicked administration and a contemptible government, too weak to arrest and...not only constitutional, but, withal, a great mercy. His real argument may be summed up in these words of his: You ask, in substance, whether I really claim... | |
 | Nathaniel Wright Stephenson - Biography & Autobiography - 1918 - 338 pages
...persuaded to write the soldier boy that he is fighting in a bad cause for a wicked administration and a contemptible government, too weak to arrest and...not only constitutional, but, withal, a great mercy. His real argument may be summed up in these words of his: You ask, in substance, whether I really claim... | |
 | Nathaniel Wright Stephenson - United States - 1918 - 316 pages
...is fighting in a bad cause for a wicked administration and a contemptible government, too weak to jj arrest and punish him if he shall desert. I think...not only constitutional, but, withal, a great mercy. His real argument may be summed up in these words of his : You ask, in substance, whether I really... | |
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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... 
