James Blaine: “In my judgment we do not sufficiently protect the loyal men in the rebel States from the vindictive persecutions of…”

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.

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.

If it be true that war cannot be declared, nor a system of general hostilities carried on by the Central Government against a State, then it seems to follow that an attempt to do so would be ipso facto an expulsion of such State from the…