 Whereas the laws of the United States have been for some time past, and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed, in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful...  Illustrated Life, Services, Martyrdom, and Funeral of Abraham Lincoln ... - Page 97edited by - 1865 - 285 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Rhonda Lucas Donald - Education - 2001 - 76 pages
...who championed keeping the Union intact, only worsened the rift. By Lincoln's inauguration in 1861, the states of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas had seceded from the Union. Soon, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas joined the newly... | |
 | Franklin Aretas Haskell - History - 2002 - 128 pages
...power vested in him by the Constitution and the laws, declared that the laws of the United States were opposed and the execution thereof obstructed in the...proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals of the law; and Whereas by another proclamation made on the 16th day of August, in the same year, in... | |
 | Clinton Rossiter - 346 pages
...of the Militia Act of 1795, the government was faced "by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals." It was therefore his plain duty to disperse these combinations. The rebellion was a colossal riot aimed... | |
 | Daniel A. Farber - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 272 pages
...lowered at Sumter, Lincoln issued a proclamation calling out the militia. According to the proclamation, "[T]he laws of the United States have been for some...opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed" in the seceding states "by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings,... | |
 | Daniel A. Farber - History - 2004 - 251 pages
...the cost." Indeed, he had originally called up the militia in the name of the rule of law, because "the laws of the United States have been for some...are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed" by "combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings." Yet,... | |
 | John Chester Miller - Biography & Autobiography - 692 pages
...President that the laws of the United States were opposed by "combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of Judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the Marshal of that district." On August 17, 1794, armed with this authority, the government sent orders... | |
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