...one 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...

...severe penalty of death. The case requires, and the law and the Constitution sanction, this punishment. Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts,...agitator who induces him to desert? This is none the lessinjiirious when effected by getting a father, or brother, or friend, into a public meeting, and...

...severe penalty of death. The case requires, and the law ami the constitution sanction, this punishmemt. Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a willy agitator who induces him to desert? This is none the less injurious when effected by getting...

...severe penalty of death. The case requires, and the law and the Constitution sanction, this punishment. Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts,...friend, into a public meeting, and there working upon bis feelings till he is pereuadcd to write the soldier boy that he is fighting in a bad cause, for...

...severe penalty of death. The case requires, and the law and the 'Constitution Banction, this punishment. Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts,...by getting a father, or brother, or friend, into a publie meeting, and there working upon his feelings till he is persuaded to write the soldier boy that...

...severe penalty of death. The case requires, and the law and the Constitution sanction, this punishment. Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts,...brother, or friend, into a public meeting, and there v working upon his feelings till he is per; suaded to write the soldier boy that he is fighting in...

...case very strongly of preventing men from inducing desertion. He says : " Must I shoot a simple minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a...less injurious when effected by getting a father, a brother, or friend into a public meeting, and there working on his feelings till he is persuaded...

...case very strongly of preventing men from inducing desertion. He says: " Must I shoot a simple minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a...less injurious when effected by getting a father. a brother, or friend into a public meeting, and there working on his feelings till he is persuaded...

...severe penalty of death. The case requires, and the law and the Constitution sanction, this punishment. Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts,...who induces him to desert ? This is none the less inj urious when effected by getting a father, or brother, or friend, into a public meeting, and there...

...of which the life of the nation depends." Furthermore: ''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? I think that, in such a case, to silence the agitator and save the boy, is not only constitutional,...