 | James Kendall Hosmer - History - 1907 - 378 pages
...general rule, the commander in the field is the 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 me great pleasure to discharge him as soon as I can by any means believe... | |
 | George Henry Porter - Ohio - 1911 - 276 pages
...distinction." In his own discretion he was not sure that he would have ordered Vallandigham's arrest. " It gave me pain when I learned that Mr. Vallandigham had been arrested—that is I was pained that there should have seemed to be a necessity for arresting him,—and... | |
 | James Kendall Hosmer - United States - 1913 - 384 pages
...general rule, the commander in the field is the 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 me great pleasure to discharge him as soon as I can by any means believe the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - History - 1989 - 844 pages
...suppressing the Rebellion, and I am specifically called on to discharge Mr. Vallandigham. I regard this as, at least, a fair appeal to me on the expediency of exercising a Constitutional power which I diink exists. In response to such appeal, I have to say, it gave me pain when I learned that Mr. Vallandigham... | |
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One of the resolutions expresses the opinion of the meeting that arbitrary arrests will have the effect to divide and distract those who should be united in suppressing the rebellion, and I am specifically called on to discharge Mr. 
