James Blaine: “If I should sign your resolution without explanation, it might imply my right to veto it, and thereby take from you your…”

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…

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…

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

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