...should be done with the Confederate leaders. " I have no desire," said the President, " to kill or hang them. Let us frighten them out of the country —...; we must extinguish our resentments if we expect to live in harmony and peace." In the afternoon the President, with Mrs. Lincoln, drove in his carriage...

...should be done with the Confederate leaders. " I have no desire," said the President, " to kill or hang them. Let us frighten them out of the country —...; we must extinguish our resentments if we expect to live in harmony and peace." In the afternoon the President, with Mrs. Lincoln, drove in his carriage...

...should be done with the Confederate leaders. " I have no desire," said the President, " to kill or hang them. Let us frighten them out of the country —...; we must extinguish our resentments if we expect to live in harmony and peace." In the afternoon the President, with Mrs. Lincoln, drove in his carriage...

...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 up his hands as if scaring sheep. " Enough lives have been sacrificed, we must extinguish...

...the gates, let down the bars, scare them off," he said, throwing up his hands as if scaring sheep. " Enough lives have been sacrificed, we must extinguish our resentments if we expect harmony and union." When he fell, what a wave of awe and grief swept over the land. It was like some great convulsion of...

...the gates, let down the bars, scare them off, he said, throwing up his hands, as if scaring sheep. Enough lives have been sacrificed. We must extinguish our resentments, if we expect harmony and union. That evening he was murdered. Superstition was blended with his strong common-sense; he had faith in...

...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, scare them off, he said, throwing up his hands, as if scaring sheep. Enough lives have been sacrificed. We must extinguish...

...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 up his hands as if scaring sheep; "enough lives have been sacrificed; we must extinguish...

...himself would take any part in hanging or killing these fellow-citizens, even the worst of them. " Frighten them out of the country, open the gates, let down the bars, scare them off," he continued, lifting up his hands with an appropriate gesture; "but enough lives have been sacrificed...

...killing these men," runs Secretary Welles's abstract of the President's words, " 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. " Enough lives have been sacrificed ; we must extinguish...