 | Doris Kearns Goodwin - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 945 pages
..."without a policy," Lincoln reminded Seward of his inaugural pledge that "the power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government." This was the "exact domestic policy" that Seward called for, "with the single exception, that it does... | |
 | Mel Friedman, Lina Miceli, Robert Bell, Michael Lee, Sally Wood, Adel Arshaghi, Suzanne Coffield, Michael McIrvin, Anita Price Davis, Research & Education Association, George DeLuca, Joseph Fili, Marilyn Gilbert, Bernice E. Goldberg, Leonard Kenner - Study Aids - 2005 - 886 pages
...be no bloodshed or violence, and there shall be none unless it be forced upon the national authority to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government and to collect the duties and imposts . . . beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will... | |
 | Donald J. Meyers - History - 2005 - 284 pages
...administration: avoidance "of bloodshed or violence...unless it is forced upon the national authority;" and to "hold, occupy, and possess the property, and places belonging to the government," such as Fort Sumter. 176 As events transpired, he could not do both. The states of the Upper South... | |
 | David Edwin Harrell, Edwin S. Gaustad, John B. Boles, Sally Foreman Griffith - History - 2005 - 860 pages
...constitutional amendment to that effect. But he went on to say that he had a constitutional obligation to "hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government," a potent claim since four federal forts in the Confederacy as yet remained in Union control. Nevertheless,... | |
 | John W. Burgess - History - 2005 - 353 pages
...of the Union should be faithfully executed in all the "States." And he announced his determination to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the United States Government, and to collect the duties and the imposts everywhere. Here was certainly... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 896 pages
...and there shall be none unless it is forced upon the National authority. The power confided to me mil be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property...the Government, and collect the duties and imposts ; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects there will be no invasion, no using of force against... | |
 | Robert F. Hawes - Political Science - 2006 - 357 pages
...there shall be none, unless it be forced upon the national authority. The power confided in 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... | |
 | Mark David Ledbetter - History - 2010 - 505 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 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... | |
 | Ian Frederick Finseth - History - 2006 - 648 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, 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 292 pages
...foreign." At the beginning of that month, in the inaugural, I said: "The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts." This had your distinct approval at the time; and, taken in connection... | |
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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... 
