James Blaine: “Great as was his intellectual power, his chief strength came from the depth and earnestness of his moral convictions.”

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

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…

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…