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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... "
Life of Abraham Lincoln: Presenting His Early History, Political Career, and ... - Page 190
by Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1865 - 842 pages
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Speeches that Changed the World

Owen Collins - History - 1999 - 464 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...
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The Men of Secession and Civil War, 1859-1861

James L. Abrahamson - History - 2000 - 228 pages
...act and bad policy. Carefully proclaiming his determination to preserve the Union, Lincoln pledged to "hold, occupy, and possess the property and places...Government, and . . . collect the duties and imposts." Beyond "what may be necessary for these objects," he would not invade or otherwise use "force against...
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Presidential Documents: The Speeches, Proclamations, and Policies that Have ...

Jim F. Watts, Fred L. Israel - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 416 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...
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A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War

Harry V. Jaffa - Presidents - 2004 - 574 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...
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The American Reader: Words That Moved a Nation

Diane Ravitch - Reference - 2000 - 662 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...
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Reassessing the Presidency: The Rise of the Executive State and the Decline ...

John V. Denson - Executive power - 2001 - 830 pages
...consider that he had declared war. We find those words in his speech: 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...
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The American Civil War: The War in the East 1861 - May 1863

Gary W. Gallagher - History - 2001 - 94 pages
...intention 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 Confederates occupied Fort Sumter immediately after Robert Anderson's small gamson surrendered. ln...
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Freedom and Organization, 1814-1914

Bertrand Russell - History - 2001 - 532 pages
...have attacked the South if the South had not attacked him. "The power confided to me," he said, "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...
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Secession, State, and Liberty

David Gordon - Business & Economics - 362 pages
..."national authority" in such a way as to insure that war would come: 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...
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American and Russian Alliance of 1858: The Slave Boy Who Refused to Work

Rebekah Sutherland - Fiction - 2002 - 228 pages
...whatever federal power is necessary to hold our federal property. I will collect the duties and impost, but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using offorce against or among the people anywhere." His declaration did not fool anyone. A staunch antisecessionist...
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