 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1905 - 412 pages
...conduct of General Jackson, or its subsequent approval by the American Congress. And yet, let me say that, in my own discretion, I do not know whether I would have ordered the arrest of Mr. Vallandingham. While I cannot shift the responsibility from myself, I hold that, as a general rule,... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1906 - 622 pages
...law. The connection of Lincoln with this case is of interest. " In my own discretion," he wrote, " I do not know whether I would have ordered the arrest of Mr. Vallandigham. . . . It gave me pain when I learned that he had been arrested (that is, I was pained that there should... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1907 - 338 pages
...conduct of General Jackson, or its subsequent approval by the American Congress. And yet, let me say that in my own discretion, I do not know whether I...necessity in any particular case. Of course I must practice a general directory and revisory power in the matter. One of the resolutions expresses the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 336 pages
...conduct of General Jackson, or its subsequent approval by the American Congress. And yet, let me say that in my own discretion, I do not know whether I...necessity in any particular case. Of course I must practice a general directory and revisory power in the matter. One of the resolutions expresses the... | |
 | James Kendall Hosmer - Literary Criticism - 1907 - 400 pages
...healthful life." ' Lincoln's frank admission to the Albany remonstrants is interesting: "And yet let me say that in my own discretion I do not know whether I...better judge of the necessity in any particular case. ... It gave me pain when I learned that Mr. Vallandigham had been arrested ; . . . and it will afford... | |
 | James Kendall Hosmer - United States - 1913 - 384 pages
...healthful life." 1 Lincoln's frank admission to the Albany remonstrants is interesting: "And yet let me say that in my own discretion I do not know whether I...better judge of the necessity in any particular case. ... It gave me pain when I learned that Mr. Vallandigham had been arrested; . . . and it will afford... | |
 | Edwin Wiley, Irving Everett Rines, Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1916 - 590 pages
...Copperhead, in Putnam's Monthly, vol. ii., pp. 500-599 (1907). t In a letter to Krastus Corning he says: "In my own discretion I do not know whether I would have ordered the arrest of Mr. Vallandigham. * * * It gave me pain when I learned that l:e had been arrested (that is, I was pained tliat there... | |
 | John Torrey Morse - 1921 - 400 pages
...matters to proceed so far. Soon afterward, in his reply to the New York Democrats, he said: "In mj own discretion, I do not know whether I would have ordered the arrest of Mr. Vallandigham." On the other hand, Mr. Blaine states that Burnside " undoubtedly had confidential instructions in regard... | |
 | History - 2003 - 260 pages
...Constitution. Lincoln was embarrassed by Burnside's blunder. "In my own discretion," he acknowledged, "I do not know whether I would have ordered the arrest of Mr. Vallandigham," he told a Democratic critic. "All the cabinet regretted the necessity of arresting," he informed Burnside,... | |
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Jackson, or its subsequent approval by the American Congress. And yet, let me say that, in my own discretion, I do not know whether I would have ordered the arrest of Mr. Vallandigham. 
