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The Bell and Everett campaign had been conducted upon the single and simple platform of the Union and the Constitution,--devotion to the Union, obedience to the Constitution.
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Blaine highlights the campaign of Bell and Everett as focused solely on the principles of the Union and the Constitution.
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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.
You can use force only to repel an assault on the public property and aid the Courts in the performance of their duty.
Is any portion of the people bound to contribute their money or their blood to carry on a contest like that?
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.
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