 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - United States - 1872 - 690 pages
...authoritative manner direct the contrary." Then, as if to avert ill feeling if possible : "I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as...will constitutionally defend and maintain itself." Then; with careful adherence to the mildest terms possible — could anything be a more peaceful assertion... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1873 - 786 pages
...authoritative manner, direct the contrary. I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as a declared purpose of the Union that it will constitutionally...bloodshed or violence ; and there shall be none, unless it be forced upon the national authority. The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1874 - 1956 pages
...people, shall withhold the requisite means, or in some authoritative manner direct the contrary. I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as...bloodshed or violence ; and there shall be none, unless it be forced upon the National authority. The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess... | |
 | Henry Stuart Foote - Biography & Autobiography - 1874 - 514 pages
...to maintain the Government he says: " I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as a declared purpose of the Union that it will constitutionally...unless it is forced upon the national authority." He closes his address in these noble words : "My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well upon... | |
 | Gideon Welles - 1874 - 230 pages
...upon the President, even before his Cabinet was organized. In his Inaugural Address he had said, " The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy,...property and places belonging to the Government." This was his policy ; but the Secretary of State, who had different views, opposed sending reinforcements... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1874 - 562 pages
...there should IKJ no bloodshed or violence, unless forced upon the country, — that it was his duty to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government, — but, beyond what was necessary for this object, there should be no exercise of force, and the people... | |
 | Jacob Harris Patton - United States - 1876 - 1086 pages
...President announced that he should enforce the laws of the Union in accordance with his oath of office. " The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy...and possess the property and places belonging to the goTernment, and collect the duties and imposts." Alluding to the secessionists, he says: "The INFLUENCE... | |
 | Alexander Harris - Slavery - 1876 - 522 pages
...expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union shall be faithfully executed in all the States. "In doing this there need be no bloodshed or violence, and there shall be none unless it be forced upon the national authority." Did despot ever lay down more dogmatic and authorative dicta... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - North America - 1877 - 764 pages
...trust this will not be regarded as a menace," he continued. CHAP. VI. THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 1461 " but only as the declared purpose of the Union that...constitutionally defend and maintain itself. In doing this," he added, " there need be no bloodshed or violence ; and there shall be none, unless it be forced upon... | |
 | Henry Wilson - Antislavery movements - 1877 - 814 pages
...but as only the " declared purpose of the Union " to maintain itself. " In doing this," he said, " there need be no bloodshed or violence, and there shall be none unless it is forced on the national authority." Pledging himself that the power confided to him would be used " to hold,... | |
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In doing this there need be no bloodshed or violence ; and there shall be none, unless it be forced upon the National authority. The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government... 
