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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... "
Life of Abraham Lincoln - Page 299
by Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 544 pages
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Stephen A. Douglas

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...
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America's Nine Greatest Presidents

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...
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The Costs of War: America's Pyrrhic Victories

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...
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The Approaching Fury

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...
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Speeches that Changed the World

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...
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Presidential Documents: The Speeches, Proclamations, and Policies that Have ...

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...
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The American Reader: Words That Moved a Nation

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...
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A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War

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...
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Reassessing the Presidency: The Rise of the Executive State and the Decline ...

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....
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Freedom and Organization, 1814-1914

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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