James Blaine: “What faith can an Executive put in officials forced upon him, and those, too, whom he has suspended for reason?”

Is any portion of the people bound to contribute their money or their blood to carry on a contest like that?

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

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.

Without the exercise of those functions which belong exclusively to the civil service, the laws cannot be executed in any event, no matter what may be the physical strength which the Government has at its command.