James Blaine: “He argued that West Virginia had taken every step regularly and complied with every requirement of the Constitution.”

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?

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.

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…