 | David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - 2005 - 462 sidor
...public safety requires them" in times of "rebellion or invasion." In the best known passage, he asked: "Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch the hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert? . . . I think that, in such a case, to silence... | |
 | William D. Pederson, Thomas T. Samaras, Frank J. Williams - 2007 - 216 sidor
...his most famous passage on the subject, contained in the Corning Letter, Lincoln stated eloquently: Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts,...a wily agitator who induces him to desert? This is nonetheless injurious when effected by getting a father, or brother, or friend into a public meeting,... | |
 | James F. Simon - 2006 - 337 sidor
...protected by the Constitution because they undermined the military's ability to prosecute the war. "Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts,...hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert?" he asked. Vallandigham had done nothing less injurious to the Union cause by suggesting in his Mount... | |
 | Mark David Ledbetter - 2010 - 505 sidor
...modern liberalism. Lincoln goes on to justify what Farber might call the Doctrine of Early Intervention: Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a wilely agitator who induces him to desert? ...to silence the agitator, and save the boy, is not only... | |
 | Ron Soodalter - 2010 - 352 sidor
...eighteen to be shot."13 As a rule, he disallowed shooting men for desertion: "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? I think that in such a case to silence the agitator,... | |
 | Geoffrey R. Stone - 2007 - 256 sidor
...armies cannot be maintained unless desertions shall be punished by the severe penalty of death. . . . 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.... | |
 | Frank Van der Linden - 2007 - 332 sidor
...the army, and to leave the rebellion without an adequate military force to suppress it." He asked: "Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts,...hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert?" Vallandigham's friend, Congressman Samuel S. Cox, also a harsh antiwar critic of the administration,... | |
 | Stephen Holmes - 2007 - 293 sidor
...repressive measure of which he did not necessarily approve, Lincoln asked memorably: "Must I shoot the simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must...touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert?"3 The underlying logic here draws attention to the tight connection, which resurfaces in Stone's... | |
 | James M. McPherson - 2007 - 272 sidor
...reviewing such cases and finding reasons to pardon deserters or commute their sentences), he asked: "Must I shoot a simpleminded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch the hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert?" This "clear, flagrant, and giant" rebellion,... | |
 | Joe Wheeler - 2008 - 313 sidor
...used the event as a springboard for an open letter released to the New York Tribune. In it he asked, "Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts,...touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert:1" The letter resulted in plaudits for the president all over the North.1 RIPPLES OF THE EMANCIPATION... | |
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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? 
