James Blaine: “Whatever fault may be found, whatever charges may be made, the fact remains that Governor Shepherd wrought a complete…”

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.

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

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

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…