James Blaine: “In no other system of banking have the bills had such wide circulation and such absolute credit.”

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

The States are colleagues of one another, and if some of them shall conquer the rest, and hold them as subjugated provinces, it would totally destroy the whole theory upon which they are now connected.

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.

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.