 | 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,... | |
 | Geoffrey R. Stone - History - 2004 - 758 pages
...and Writings at 459-60 (cited in note 45). 128 Id. 129 Id at 460. 130 Lincoln added, in passing, "1 do not know whether I would have ordered the arrest of Mr. Vallandigham," but "the commander in the field is the better judge of the necessity in any particular case." Id at... | |
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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. 
