 | De Alva Standwood Alexander - New York (State) - 1909 - 592 pages
...to delay the draft " because time is too important. . . . We are contending with an enemy who, as 1 understand, drives every able-bodied man he can reach...ranks, very much as a butcher drives bullocks into a siaughter-pen. No time is wasted, no argument is used. This produces an army which will soon turn upon... | |
 | Henry Bascom Smith - United States - 1911 - 384 pages
...inequities. And on August 7th, 1863, Mr. Lincoln in a communication to Seymour regarding these claims, said : "We are contending with an enemy who, as I understand,...ranks, very much as a butcher drives bullocks into a slaughter pen ; no time is wasted, no argument is used." And Mr. Lincoln repeatedly wrote Governor... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1906 - 524 pages
...the constitutionality of the draft law. In fact, I should be willing to facilitate the obtaining of it. But I cannot consent to lose the time while it...ranks, very much as a butcher drives bullocks into the slaughter-pen. No time is wasted, no argument is used. This produces an army which will soon turn... | |
 | History - 2003 - 260 pages
...belatedly learned of the riot, asked Lincoln to suspend the draft in New York. The president declined, "We are contending with an enemy, who, as I understand,...as a butcher drives bullocks into a slaughter-pen." In a conciliatory fashion he declared his willingness to let the Supreme Court pass on the draft's... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 532 pages
...the Supreme Court. But conscription was, in Lincoln's mind, "just and constitutional" in the face of an enemy "who, as I understand, drives every able-bodied...as a butcher drives bullocks into a slaughter-pen." Even more, it was "practical" — practical, in terms Lincoln knew would prick Seymour's Democratic... | |
 | David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 462 pages
...draft law. In fact, I should be willing to facilitate the obtaining of it. But I cannot consent to 1 80 lose the time while it is being obtained. We are contending...drives every able-bodied man he can reach into his be sustained by recruits as they should be. It produces an army with a rapidity not to be matched on... | |
 | Labor unions - 1917 - 834 pages
...In a letter to the Governor of New York, he frankly damned the draft while he justified it. He said: "We are contending with an enemy, who, as I understand,...as a butcher drives bullocks into a slaughter-pen." But the draft was a tragic failure. It filled the prisons with men, who were outraged by its attack... | |
 | 1917 - 780 pages
...In a letter to the Governor of New York, he frankly damned the draft while he justified it. He said: 'We are contending with an enemy, who, as I understand,...ranks, very much as a butcher drives bullocks into a slaughter- pen.' "But the draft was a tragic failure. It filled the prisons with men, who were outraged... | |
 | Granite industry and trade - 1917 - 444 pages
...In a letter to the governor of New York, he frankly damned the draft while he justified it. He said: "We are contending with an enemy, who, as I understand,...ranks, very much as a butcher drives bullocks into a slaughter pen." But the draft was a tragic failure. It filled the prisons with men who were outraged... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - History - 1989 - 844 pages
...constitutionality of the draft law. In fact, I should be willing to facilitate the obtaining of it; but I can not consent to lose the time while it is being obtained....contending with an enemy who, as I understand, drives even- able bodied man he can reach, into his ranks, very much as a butcher drives bullocks into a slaughter-pen.... | |
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We are contending with an enemy who, as I understand, drives every able-bodied man he can reach into his ranks very much as a butcher drives bullocks into a slaughter pen. 
