President Lincoln's Views : An Important Letter On the Principles Involved in the Vallandigham Case ; Correspondence in Relation to the Democratic Meeting, At Albany, N.Y

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He was not arrested because he was damaging the political 13 prospects of the Administration, or ttie personal interests of tlie commanding general, but because he was damaging the army, upon the existence and vigor of which the life of the nation depends. He was warring upon the military, and this gave the military constitutional jurisdiction to lay hands upon him. If Mr. Vallandigham was not dam- aging the military power of the country, then his arrest was made on mistake of fact, which I wou
...ld be glad to correct on reasonably satisfactory evidence.
I understand the meeting, whose resolutions I am con- sidering, to be in favor of suppressing, the rebellion by military force — by armies. Long experience has shown that armies cannot be maintained unless desertions shall be punished by the severe penalty of death. The case re- quires, and the law and the Constuittion sanction, this pun- ishment. 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 ?


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