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, will not all the States be absolved from their Federal obligations?
Blaine warns that if Congress creates strife, all states may be absolved from their federal obligations.
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The wisdom of maintaining that institution was abundantly vindicated by the results of the war.
Their success as civil magistrates, as legislators, as executives was not less marked and meritorious than their illustrious service in war.
Durant speaks of no duty, apparently thinks of none resting upon Southern Union men.
He was a lawyer in full practice, a man of the highest integrity, without fear and without reproach.
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