| Kathy Sammis - 1997 - 132 pages
...from the army, and to leave the rebellion without an adequate military force to suppress rt. . . . Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts,...hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert? I can no more be persuaded that the government can constitutionally take no strong measures in time... | |
| Frank P. King - 1997 - 260 pages
...one of the leading Southern sympathizers in the Union, Clement L. Vallandigham, the president asked: "Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts,...touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert?"58 As usual, there was corruption in the quartermaster corps. Lincoln got involved, although... | |
| David Mayer Silver - 1998 - 288 pages
...Vallandigham as an agitator. "Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, [Lincoln asked Corning] while I must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert?"26 Even the friendly press found it difficult to be carried along by Lincoln's argument in... | |
| Robert Francis Engs - 1999 - 236 pages
...York, Democrats," 12 June 1863, Abraham Lincoln, defending his suppression of the press, despaired, "Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts,...hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert?" Quoted in The Living Lincoln, ed. Paul M. Angle and Earl Schenck Miers (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1992),... | |
| William C. Davis - 1999 - 330 pages
...the women to howl about me." 33 "Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts," he protested, "while I must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induced him to desert?' The longer the war lasted, the more entrenched became his resolution against... | |
| Michael Kent Curtis - 2000 - 544 pages
...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,...touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert?"98 It was a powerful point. But, judging by Vallandigham's case, it included antiwar political... | |
| Terry Eastland - 2000 - 446 pages
...not be maintained unless desertion shall be punished by the severe penalty of death." Then he asked: "Must I shoot a simpleminded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a wiley agitator who induces him to desert? ... I think that in such a case, to silence the agitator,... | |
| Alan T. Nolan - 2000 - 332 pages
...war effort whose arrest had prompted the Albany resolutions, Lincoln stated his often-quoted epigram: "Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a wilcy agitator who induces him to desert?" The popularity of this statement has, it seems to me, distracted... | |
| David B. Sachsman, S. Kittrell Rushing, Debra Reddin Van Tuyll - 610 pages
...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence? Must l shoot a simple-minded boy who deserts, while l must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert?52 Historian Richard Hofstadter says men such as Medary, although unpopular, are invaluable... | |
| Thomas R. Hensley - 2001 - 420 pages
...immunity simply because they were speech; as he wrote in a June 12, 1863, letter to Erastus Corning, "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,... | |
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