James Blaine: “I can sympathize with him whose all has been taken from him: I can sympathize with him who has been driven from 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.

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

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…

All these provisions are made to protect the States, not to authorize an attack by one part of the country upon another; to preserve the peace, and not to plunge them into civil war.