...documents, especially in the later ones: "Must / shoot a simple-minded soldierboy who deserts, while / must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert?" Really Lincoln here naively voices the Folk-Soul as an Ego or Self, which is his own. Some political...

...unlikely to come when l shall be blamed for having made too few arrests rather than too many. . . . Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts,...less injurious when effected by getting a father, a brother, or friend into a public meeting and then working upon his feelings till he is persuaded...

...and the law and the constitution sanction, this punishment. Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier-boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a wily...him to desert? This is none the less injurious when affected by getting a father, or a brother, or friend, into a public meeting and there working upon...

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...more satisfactory to his fellow citizens than it was to the disciplinarians of the war department: "Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts,...hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert? ... I think that in such a case, to silence the agitator, and save the boy, is not only constitutional,...

...considering to be in favor of suppressing the rebellion by military force — by armies. Long experience has shown that armies cannot be maintained unless...hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert? ... I think that, in such a case, to silence the agitator and save the boy is not only constitutional,...

...parried the remonstrances as they came with tact and logic. ' ' Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier-boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert? This is not the less injurious when effected by getting a father, brother, or friend into a public meeting,...

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...penalty of death. The case requires, and the law and the Constitution sanction, this punishment. Shall 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...

...carrying out the sentence. To release him would be even worse. "Why," asked Lincoln, "must I shoot the simpleminded soldier boy who deserts while I must not touch a hair of the head of the wily agitator who induces him to desert?" The President's tact in handling the situation...