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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... "
The Lincoln Memorial: A Record of the Life, Assassination, and Obsequies of ... - Page 31
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America's Nine Greatest Presidents

Frank P. King - Political Science - 1997 - 260 pages
...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...of force against, or among the people anywhere.... If the minority will not acquiesce, the majority must, or the government must cease.... Plainly, the...
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The Costs of War: America's Pyrrhic Victories

John V. Denson - History - 1997 - 494 pages
...in that region. As 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
...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, there...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...
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Speeches that Changed the World

Owen Collins - History - 1999 - 464 pages
...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...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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A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War

Harry V. Jaffa - Presidents - 2004 - 574 pages
...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...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...
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Presidential Documents: The Speeches, Proclamations, and Policies that Have ...

Jim F. Watts, Fred L. Israel - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 416 pages
...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...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 American Reader: Words That Moved a Nation

Diane Ravitch - Reference - 2000 - 662 pages
...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...using of force against or among the people anywhere. . . . That there are persons in one section or another who seek to destroy the Union at all events...
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Freedom and Organization, 1814-1914

Bertrand Russell - History - 2001 - 532 pages
...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...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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Reassessing the Presidency: The Rise of the Executive State and the Decline ...

John V. Denson - Executive power - 2001 - 830 pages
...places belonging to the government," Lincoln announced, "and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion."55 If he was to succeed politically Lincoln had to start a war (by maneuvering the South...
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The American Civil War: The War in the East 1861 - May 1863

Gary W. Gallagher - History - 2001 - 94 pages
...Confederate nationhood until the very last days of the confllct lAuthor's collectionl r- :^ _ -.. lx' no invasion - no using of force against, or among the people anywhere.' Turning directly to the question of responsibility for any aggressive moves, Lincoln added: 'ln your...
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