 | James M. McPherson - History - 1988 - 952 pages
...assuring 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 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1989 - 524 pages
...hold, occupy and possess these, and all other property and places belonging to the government and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may...necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion of any State. Even in the original draft, Lincoln had avoided the use of the names of specific forts... | |
 | Thomas W. Benson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 272 pages
...hold, occupy and possess these, and all other property and places belonging to the government and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may...necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion of any State. Even in the original draft, Lincoln had avoided the use of the names of specific forts... | |
 | Robert Walter Johannsen - Biography & Autobiography - 1973 - 1012 pages
...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...people anywhere." Where hostility to the United States "in any interior locality" shall be so great and where the exercise of federal authority should be... | |
 | Frank P. King - Political Science - 1997 - 260 pages
...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...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 - History - 1997 - 494 pages
...collecting all the customs tariffs in that region. As Lincoln put it, the federal government would "collect the duties and imposts, but beyond what may...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 - History - 2009 - 522 pages
...forts still in our possession, Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor and Fort Pickens in Pensacola Bay. "But beyond what may be necessary for these objects,...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 - History - 1999 - 464 pages
...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...people anywhere. Where hostility to the United States in any interior locality shall be so great and universal as to prevent competent resident citizens... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - Presidents - 2004 - 574 pages
...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...people anywhere. Where hostility to the United States, in any interior locality, shall be so great and so universal, as to prevent competent resident citizens... | |
 | Jim F. Watts, Fred L. Israel - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 416 pages
...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...people anywhere. Where hostility to the United States in any interior locality shall be so great and universal as to prevent competent resident citizens... | |
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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... 
