...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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,...

...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...

...Beauregard's Confederate force. The next day, President Lincoln declared that insurrection had broken out in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, immediately calling out 75,000 militia from the remaining states. Lincoln's call was accepted by all...

...A Proclamation. Whereas an insurrection against the Government of the United States has broken out in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, and the laws of the United States for the collection of the revenue can not be effectually executed...

...to his Government. On the very day of the * The following is a full copy of this important paper : " Whereas, the laws of the United States have been for...: now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, in virtue of the power in me vested by the Constitution and the laws, have thought...

...VOLUNTEERS AND AN EXTRA SESSION OF CONGRESS. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas; The laws of the United States have been for...— now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, in virtue of the power in me vested by the Constitution and the laws, have thought...

...war against this Confederacy. He terms sovereign states 'combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law,' He avows that 'the first service to be assigned to the forces called out' will be not to execute the...