 | Godfrey Rathbone Benson Baron Charnwood - 1917 - 508 str.
...of them was a sentence which probably went further > with the people of the North than any other : " Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts,...hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert?" There may or may not be some fallacy lurking here, but it must not be supposed that this sentence came... | |
 | United States. Committee on Public Information - 1918 - 388 str.
...this figure jumped to 1,021,501,398 pounds. " Copperheads," Lincoln on. " Must I shoot a simpleminded boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert? " President Lincoln asked. It will be remembered that he also ordered Vallancligham, the leader of... | |
 | Edward Eggleston - 1920 - 494 str.
...banished the prisoner to the Confederacy ! When he was criticized for such actions, Lincoln replied : " Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts,...hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert ? " Bent on saving the Union and the cause for which it stood, he was in no mood to treat tenderly... | |
 | Zechariah Chafee - 1920 - 450 str.
...Lincoln's refusal to allow General under martial law in the border states. " Must I shoot a simple soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a...hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert?" But Lincoln's policy, apart from all questions of its legality, was very different in nature from most... | |
 | Charles Austin Beard, Mary Ritter Beard - 1921 - 712 str.
...in homely language, very different in tone and meaning from the involved reasoning of the lawyers. " 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 asked in a quiet way ^f some spokesmen for those... | |
 | Allen Johnson - 1921 - 460 str.
...Lincoln consciously appealed were touched to the heart by his pathetic question: "Must I shoot the simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert?" But there was still defection on the Union side, and... | |
 | William Wood - 1921 - 498 str.
...Lincoln consciously appealed were touched to the heart by his pathetic question: "Must I shoot the simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert?" But there was still defection on the Union side, and... | |
 | United States. Presidential Clemency Board - 1975 - 456 str.
...punished by the severe penalty of death. (But) must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts (and) not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert?* The "wily agitator" was CL Vallandigham, former member of the US House of Representatives. Lincoln... | |
 | 1980 - 224 str.
...than too many. And then he phrased his dilemma in a way to make it understood at Northern hearthsides: "Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts,...hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert?" army. There is no proof of this assertion, and on the whole Lincoln might have done better to overrule... | |
 | James M. McPherson - 1988 - 952 str.
...rhetorical question that turned out to be the most powerful — and famous — part of his argument. "Must I shoot a simpleminded 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,... | |
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