Force Bill Speech of the Hon Thomas S Bocock of Virginia Delivered in the H
Force Bill Speech of the Hon Thomas S Bocock of Virginia Delivered in the H
Thomas S Bocock
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And therefore I say that you cannot peaceably execute the laws in a seceded State. You must make 12 . . War ; aud that is of itself a recognition of the independence of the State warred against. Suppose you send your man-of-war to Charleston, with a collector on board to collect revenue. The mer- chant vessel is seized, and held for the payment of duties. A dis- pute arises, and one of your officers is killed. By the Constitution, the offender is entitled to trial " by an impartial jury of the ...State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed. " You must try him in South Carolina; but you have no court there, and cannot do so. This is one of the many illustrations to show that the whole working of our system rests on the consent of the State. And so, I say, that every force bill reported to the House, inasmuch as it provides for the employment of the military power independently of civil process, is therefore a war measure. So of the bill under consideration ; so, also, of the bill of the gentleman from New York, [Mr.
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