 | John Gilmary Shea - United States - 1872 - 890 pages
...was duly inaugurated on the 4th of March. In his address he said : " The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government, and collect the duties and imports ; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be... | |
 | Ward Hill Lamon, Chauncey Forward Black - 1872 - 604 pages
...there shall be none unless it is 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, and collect the duties and imposts ; but, beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1873 - 780 pages
...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...government, and to collect the duties and imposts; but, beyond what maybe necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against... | |
 | Gideon Welles - 1874 - 230 pages
...before hia;.Ca,bineDwas organized. In his Inaugural Address he had said, " The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the 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... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1874 - 1956 pages
...National authority. The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property ami places belonging to the Government, and to collect the duties and imposts ; but beyond what may be but necessary for these objects, there will l>e no invasion, no using of force... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - United States - 1875 - 574 pages
...shall be none, unless it is forced upon the national authority. The power confided to me will be nsed to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and collect the duties and imposts ; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1876 - 894 pages
...administration afforded no ground to the southern states for apprehending any invasion of their rights, and that the power confided to him would be used "to hold,...property and places belonging to the government, and collect the duties and imposts ; but, beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be... | |
 | Sabas H. Whittaker M. F. a., Sabas Whittaker, M.F.A. - African Americans - 2003 - 367 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 532 pages
...serious cause for so drastic an act as secession, and no serious cause to challenge his determination to "hold, occupy, and possess the property, and places belonging to the government." There would be no "invasion" — and on that score, very likely no attempt to repossess the federal... | |
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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... 
