 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...had been heard for " persecution " and " bloody work." " No one need expect me," said Lincoln, " to take any part in hanging or killing these men, even the worst of them. Frighten them out of the country, open the gates, let down the bars, scare them off." " Shoo," he added,... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 558 pages
...of punishment. He gave plain notice that morning that he would have none of it. " No one need expeet he would take any part in hanging or killing these men, even the worst of them. Frighten them out of the Galaxy!" country, open the gates, let down the bars, scare them off," said... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson - American literature - 1890 - 708 pages
...of punishment. He gave plain notice that morning that he would have none of it. "No one need expect he would take any part in hanging or killing these men, even the worst of them. Frighten them out of the country, open the gates, let down the bars, scare them off," said he, throwing... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1891 - 582 pages
...punishment.' He gave plain notice that morning that he would have none of it. ' No one need expect he would take any part in hanging or killing these men, even the worst of them. Frighten them out of their country, open the gates, let down the bars, scare them off,' said he, throwing... | |
 | Samuel Giles Buckingham - Connecticut - 1894 - 574 pages
...the shedding any more blood, or the infliction of vindictive punishments. " No one need expect me to take any part in hanging or killing these men, even the worst of them. Frighten them out of the country, open the gates, let down the bars, scare them off," he said, throwing... | |
 | Robert Needham Cust - Religion - 1895 - 232 pages
...treatment of the ' vanquished rebels was discussed. Lincoln spoke peremptorily ' in favour of clemency. No one need expect that he would take ' any part in hanging or killing those men, even the worst of them. Frighten them out of the country, open the gates, let down the bars,... | |
 | Joseph Patterson Smith - 1898 - 1180 pages
...would deal leniently with even the most guilty of the rebel leaders. "No one need expect that I will take any part in hanging or killing these men, even the worst of them. Frighten them out of the country, open the gates, let down the bars, scare them off," said he, throwing... | |
 | Intellect - 1899 - 848 pages
...' He hoped there would be no persecution, no bloody work, after the war was over. None need expect he would take any part in hanging or killing these men, even the worst of them. Frighten them out of the country, let down the bars, scare them off, said he, throwing up his hands... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 322 pages
..." He hoped there would be no persecution, no bloody work, after the war was over. None need expect he would take any part in hanging or killing these men, even the worst of them. Frighten them out of the country, let down the bars, scare them off, said he, throwing up his hands... | |
 | Rufus Rockwell Wilson - United States - 1901 - 452 pages
...Welles, " that there would be no persecution, no bloody work, after the war was over. None need expect he would take any part in hanging or killing these men, even the worst of them. Frighten them out of the country, let down the bars, scare them off, said he, throwing up his hands... | |
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No one need expect he would take any part in hanging or killing these men, even the worst of them. Frighten them out of the country, open the gates, let down the bars, scare them off," said he, throwing up his hands as if scaring sheep. 
