James Blaine: “He said: "In order to sustain Impeachment under our Constitution I do not hold that it is necessary to prove a crime as…”

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…

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.

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…

The right of the General Government to preserve itself in its whole constitutional vigor by repelling a direct and positive aggression upon its property or its officers cannot be denied.