James Blaine: “They planned one universal bonfire of the North, from Lake Ontario to the Missouri.”

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…

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.

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

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.