James Blaine: “God has so linked the National welfare with National duty that you cannot deny these rights without peril to the…”

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.

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.

But what if the feeling in any State against the United States should become so universal that the Federal officers themselves (including judges, district attorneys, and marshals) would be reached by the same influences, and resign their…

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