...execution thereof obstructed" in the seceding states "by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the Marshals by law." Calling for seventyfive thousand troops, Lincoln said that his first step "will probably be to re-possess...

...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...

...combined in insurrection that fell beyond normal remedies available to governments. "Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, in virtue of the power invested in me by the Constitution and the laws, have thought fit to call forth, and do call forth,...

...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...

...the commander in chief simply claimed the "combinations [of the South] too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals by law."56 Lincoln further minimized the crisis by convening Congress not immediately but in eighty days....

...been, " obstructed in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas by combinations too powerful to be suppressed...proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals by law." Mr. Lincoln thus distinctly indicated the view, at the outset, that he was dealing, not with nations...

...thereof obstructed in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed...proceedings, or by the powers vested in the Marshals loa by law, — now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, in virtue of the...

...must either be opposed or their execution obstructed by "combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals" . In 1794, neither the courts in Pennsylvania nor the federal marshal were able to execute the laws,...

...States were opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshall of that district." 13 His attorney general, William Bradford, advised Washington that the...

...units of the provisional Confederate army were described as "combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the [US] Marshals by law." Once these rebellious combinations had been suppressed, the president stated,...