 | Harry V. Jaffa - 2004 - 574 Seiten
...shall withhold the requisite means, or, in some authoritative manner, direct the contrary. I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as...will constitutionally defend and maintain itself. Unlike President Buchanan, who held that neither the president nor Congress had any constitutional... | |
 | Michael E. Latham - 2000 - 308 Seiten
...unequivocally favoring an effort to hold Sumter.49 Lincoln, who had promised in his Inaugural Address "to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government," resisted the idea that Sumter be abandoned. He indicated as much soon after his inauguration, when... | |
 | David Brion Davis, Steven Mintz - 1998 - 607 Seiten
...institution of slavery where it exists." He announced that he would use "the power confided to me... to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government." But he assured Southerners that "there would be no invasion, no using offeree against or among the... | |
 | Russell Frank Weigley - 2000 - 662 Seiten
...should not be made slaves. He went further, to say that in his defense of the Union, "there needs to be no bloodshed or violence; and there shall be none, unless it be forced upon the national authority." He would hold the property and places belonging to the government,... | |
 | John V. Denson - 2001 - 830 Seiten
...revenues. To Lincoln, Southern slavery was perfectly tolerable; free trade was not. "The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property, and places belonging to the government," Lincoln announced, "and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these... | |
 | Paul Calore - 2015 - 240 Seiten
...threat to the states of the South that he, as President of the United States, was constitutionally bound to "hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government " With that said, the new administration had drawn its line in the sand. The Opening Salvo: March-April... | |
 | David Detzer - 2002 - 412 Seiten
...view, his key points were these: (1) no state could lawfully secede; and (2) "The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government." Lincoln had actually wanted to use sharper terms here but had been persuaded to soften them a bit.... | |
 | Andrew Carroll - 2008 - 518 Seiten
...March 4, 1861, inaugural address. But Lincoln also declared he would use the "power confided in [him] to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government. " This included Fort Sumter in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, which, surrounded by thousands... | |
 | Sabas H. Whittaker M. F. a., Sabas Whittaker, M.F.A. - 2003 - 367 Seiten
...people, shall withhold the requisite means or in some authoritative manner direct the contrary. I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as...constitutionally defend and maintain itself. In doing this there needs to be no bloodshed or violence, and there shall be none unless it be forced upon the national... | |
 | Michael Waldman - 363 Seiten
...people, shall withhold the requisite means or in some authoritative manner direct the contrary. I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as...constitutionally defend and maintain itself. In doing this there needs to be no bloodshed or violence, and there shall be none unless it be forced upon the national... | |
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In doing this there need be no bloodshed or violence ; and 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... 
