James Blaine: “He is an orator,--affluent in diction, graceful in manner, with all the rare and rich gifts which attract and enchain an…”

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…

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.

The right of the General Government to preserve itself in its whole constitutional vigor by repelling a direct and positive aggression upon its property or its officers cannot be denied.

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…