James Blaine: “Not the Judiciary, not the President; but the sovereign power of the people, exercised through their representatives in…”

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

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.

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

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.