...punishment. 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 none the...fighting in a bad cause for a wicked administration and a contemptible government, too weak to jj arrest and punish him if he shall desert. I think that...

...agitator who induces him to desert? This is none the less injurious when effected by getting a father, brother, or friend into a public meeting, and there...fighting in a bad cause for a wicked Administration. ... I think that in such a case to silence the agitator and save the boy is not only constitutional,...

...agitator who induces him to desert? This is none the less injurious when effected by getting a father, brother, or friend into a public meeting, and there...to write the soldier boy that he is fighting in a 1 Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, A History, vol. vn, pp. 344-347. bad cause for a wicked Administration....

.... . . 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 none the...less injurious when effected by getting a father, brother, or friend into a public meeting, and there working upon his feelings till he is persuaded...

...punishment. 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 none the...upon his feelings till he is persuaded to write the soldier-boy that he is fighting in a bad cause, for a wicked Administration of a contemptible government,...

...paragraph : 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 none the...public meeting, and there working upon his feelings until he is persuaded to write the soldier boy that he is fighting in a bad cause, for a wicked administration...

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...a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts," Lincoln asked, "while I must not touch a hair of a wiley agitator who induces him to desert? This is none the...less injurious when effected by getting a father, a brother, or friend, into a public meeting, and there working upon his feelings, till he is persuaded...