James Blaine: “But the victory of Douglas and the means by which it was won proved to be his destruction in the wider field of his…”

Under such circumstances, to send a military force into any State, with orders to act against the people, would be simply making war upon them.

You can use force only to repel an assault on the public property and aid the Courts in the performance of their duty.

And if Congress shall break up the present Union by unconstitutionally putting strife and enmity and armed hostility between different sections of the country, instead of the domestic tranquility which the Constitution was meant to insure…

But this is a totally different thing from an offensive war to punish the people for the political misdeeds of their State Government, or to enforce an acknowledgment that the Government of the United States is supreme.