...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....

...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...

...humane, large-souled Abraham Lincoln: " Long experience has shown that armies cannot be maintained unless desertion shall be punished by the severe penalty...law and the Constitution sanction, this punishment." 1 But some will say that there is now a wide-spread movement toward the abolition of capital punishment,...

...by military force — by armies. Long experience has shown that armies cannot be maintained unless desertion shall be punished by the severe penalty...law and the Constitution sanction, this punishment. • ••••••• safety requires them, which would not be constitutional when, in absence...

...by military force — by armies. Long experience has shown that armies cannot be maintained unless desertion shall be punished by the severe penalty...law and the Constitution sanction, this punishment. • •••*••• safety requires them, which would not be constitutional when, in absence of...

...force — by armies. Long experience has shown that armies can not be maintained unless desertions shall be punished by the severe penalty of death....agitator who induces him to desert ? This is none tha lees injurious when effected by getting a father, or brother, or friend, into a public meeting,...

...analysis, a single sympathetic phrase of the President's reply had a much greater popular effect : "Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts,...hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert?" The term so accurately described the character of Vallandigham, and the pointed query so touched the...

...the President asked in his reply to the Albany committee, "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 ? " That pointed query touched the heart of 1863] Special powers conferred on the President. 575 every...

...that armies cannot be maintained unless desertions shall be punished by the severe penalty of death.1 The case requires, and the law and the Constitution...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, but...

...which the President askec ' his reply to the Albany committee, " Must I shoot a simple-minw soldier-boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a wily agioi-^ who induces him to desert ? " That pointed query touched the hetf* 3] Special powers conferred...