...of death. Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier-boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert? This is none the less injurious when effected by getting father, or brother, or friend into a public meeting, and there working upon his feelings until he is...

...of death. Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier-boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert? This is none the less injurious when effected by getting father, or brother, or friend into a public meeting, and there working upon his feelings until he is...

...who yielded to this influence. " Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts," he said, " while I must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who...public meeting, and 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...

...unlikely to come when I shall be blamed for having made too few arrests rather than too many. . . . Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts,...desert? This is none the less injurious when effected by 1 Letter to Erastns Corning and others, Complete Works, vol. ii. p. 351. ! OR, vol. xxiii. part ii....

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...severe penalty of death. The case requires, and the law and the Constitution sanction this punishment. Must I shoot a simpleminded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert ? This is none the less injurious when effected by getting...

...act " revolution." But Mr. Lincoln knocked the ground from under the Copperheads' feet by asking, " Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert ? " He clinched his advantage by agreeing to release Vallandigham...

...severe penalty of death. The case requires, and the law and the Constitution sanction this punishment. Must I shoot a simpleminded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert ? This is none the less injurious when effected by getting...

...to Erastus Corning and others, Complete Works, vol. ii. p. 351. 2 OR, vol. xxiii. part ii. p. 316. getting a father, or brother, or friend into a public meeting and then working upon his feelings till he is persuaded to write the soldier boy that he is fighting in...

...Administration to desert. His indignation never was against the boy who yielded to this influence. when effected by getting a father, or brother, or...public meeting, and 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...