 | James M. McPherson - 1988 - 952 pages
...southerners that whenever "in any interior locality" the hostility to the United States was "so great and so universal, as to prevent competent resident citizens from holding the Federal offices," he would suspend government activities "for the time." 61. Randall, Lincoln the President, I, 288-91;... | |
 | Bernard L. Brock, Robert Lee Scott, James W. Chesebro - 1989 - 524 pages
...places belonging to the Government, and to collect the duties and imposts; but, beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion,...using of force against or among the people anywhere. Furthermore, "Where hostility to the United States, in any interior locality, shall be so great and... | |
 | Eugene Edmond White - 1992 - 328 pages
...insistence that he would enforce the laws vigorously and constitutionally, he added the disclaimer that "where hostility to the United States, in any interior locality, shall be so great and so universal, as to prevent competent resident citizens from holding the Federal offices, there will... | |
 | Thomas W. Benson - 1993 - 272 pages
...places belonging to the Government, and to collect the duties and imposts; but, beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion,...using of force against or among the people anywhere. Furthermore, "Where hostility to the United States, in any interior locality, shall be so great and... | |
 | Robert Walter Johannsen - 1973 - 1012 pages
...and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion...States "in any interior locality" shall be so great and where the exercise of federal authority should be so irritating, no attempt would be made "to force... | |
 | Frank P. King - 1997 - 260 pages
...and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion...of force against, or among the people anywhere.... If the minority will not acquiesce, the majority must, or the government must cease.... Plainly, the... | |
 | John V. Denson - 1997 - 494 pages
...Lincoln put it, the federal government would "collect the duties and imposts, but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against . . . people anywhere." The significance of the federal forts is that they provided the soldiers to... | |
 | Stephen B. Oates - 2009 - 522 pages
...possession, Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor and Fort Pickens in Pensacola Bay. "But beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion...using of force against, or among the people anywhere." I did not, however, specifically rule out the use of force to keep Sumter and Pickens. And so to my... | |
 | Owen Collins - 1999 - 464 pages
...and places belonging to the Government and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion,...offices, there will be no attempt to force obnoxious strangers among the people for that object. While the strict legal right may exist in the Government... | |
 | Jim F. Watts, Fred L. Israel - 2000 - 416 pages
...and places belonging to the Government and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion,...offices, there will be no attempt to force obnoxious strangers among the people for that object. While the strict legal right may exist in the Government... | |
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The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force... 
