 | William Backus Guitteau - United States - 1919 - 730 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...agitator and save the boy is not only constitutional, but a great mercy." The Presidential Election of 1864. In the dark days of 18tit, even President Lincoln... | |
 | Walter Gaston Shotwell - United States - 1923 - 424 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...not only constitutional, but withal a great mercy.' Lincoln, therefore, refused to interfere. During Vallandigham's absence from the country under these... | |
 | ARTHUR N. HOLCOMBE - 1923 - 536 pages
...and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, A History, vol. vn, pp. 344-347. bad cause for a wicked Administration. ... I think that in such a case to silence the agitator...not only constitutional, but withal a great mercy." He then stated clearly his belief that certain proceedings are constitutional when, in cases of rebellion... | |
 | Ohio - 1924 - 770 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...boy is not only constitutional, but withal, a great mercy.82 The Ohio Peace Democracy met in State Convention to nominate a governor on June 11, at Columbus... | |
 | Charles Burleigh Galbreath - Biography - 1925 - 780 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." Though Vallandigham was thus made an involuntary exile, it early became apparent that the democrats... | |
 | Clarence Edward Noble Macartney - Generals - 1925 - 256 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...only constitutional, but, withal, a great mercy." There was Lincoln at his best. Vallandigham, overwhelmingly defeated in the Ohio elections, defied... | |
 | William Eleazar Barton - Presidents - 1925 - 566 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. On occasion Lincoln could be very stern, and could refuse with stubborn resolution an appeal for pardon... | |
 | William Eleazar Barton - 1925 - 1152 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 ahd punish him if he shall desert. I think that in such a case, to silence the agitator, and save the... | |
 | James M. McPherson - History - 1988 - 952 pages
...simpleminded 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...not only constitutional, but withal a great mercy." This "giant rebellion" reached into the North itself, Lincoln continued, where "under cover of 'liberty... | |
 | James M. McPherson - History - 2003 - 947 pages
...simpleminded 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...not only constitutional, but withal a great mercy." This "giant rebellion" reached into the North itself, Lincoln continued, where "under cover of 'liberty... | |
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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... 
