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... Life of Abraham Lincoln - Page 299by Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 544 pagesFull view - About this book
| Robert Walter Johannsen - Biography & Autobiography - 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 — no using of force against, or among the people anywhere." Where hostility to the United States "in any interior locality" shall be so great... | |
| Frank P. King - Political Science - 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 — no using of force against, or among the people anywhere.... If the minority will not acquiesce, the majority must, or the government must... | |
| John V. Denson - History - 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 - History - 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 — no using of force against, or among the people anywhere." I did not, however, specifically rule out the use of force to keep Sumter and... | |
| Owen Collins - History - 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, no using of force against or among the people anywhere. Where hostility to the United States in any interior locality shall be so great... | |
| Jim F. Watts, Fred L. Israel - Biography & Autobiography - 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, no using of force against or among the people anywhere. Where hostility to the United States in any interior locality shall be so great... | |
| Diane Ravitch - Reference - 2000 - 662 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, no using of force against or among the people anywhere. . . . That there are persons in one section or another who seek to destroy the... | |
| Harry V. Jaffa - Presidents - 2004 - 574 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 — no using of force against, or among the people anywhere. Where hostility to the United States, in any interior locality, shall be so great... | |
| John V. Denson - Executive power - 2001 - 830 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, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.35 33Potter, Lincoln and His Party in the Secession Crisis, p. 321. 34Charles W.... | |
| Bertrand Russell - History - 2001 - 532 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, no using of force against or among the people anywhere. Where hostility to the United States, in any interior locality, shall be so great... | |
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