I pardoned him this morning——
[Vaughan sighs his relief.]
Your father wrote and printed that poison, and has forfeited his life for that boy's act——
Vaughan
[Trembling.]
I know you could order his execution——
Lincoln
I said to-day that I'd hang such a man on a gallows forty cubits high—but now that I see you trembling——
[He pauses.]
I shall not order his execution. I shall only hold him until the war is over, and then let him and all the others go——