The effects of this thoroughly organized system of so-called neutrality that supplied ports, ships, arms, and men to a belligerent which had none, are not matters of conjecture or exaggeration; they have been proven and recorded.
Blaine emphasizes the tangible consequences of a system that provided support to a belligerent during conflict.
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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…
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.
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.
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