...command of a citizen of the United States, and that they were constantly receiving accessions and aid. " Now, therefore, to the end that the authority of the laws may be maintained, and the faith of treaties observed, I, Martin Van Buren, do most earnestly exhort all citizens of the United...

...•r the execution thereof obstructed, in any state, by combinations too>* powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marsh'als by this aft, it shall be lawful for the president of the united states, to call forth the militia of sucli...

...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 Marshal of that district." On this call, momentous in the extreme, I sought and weighed what might...

...United States were opposed, or their execution obstructed, by combinations too powerful to 6e suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals." In the same act it was provided "that if the militia of the state where such combinations may happen,...

...same and obstructing their execution; and that such combinations are too powerful to be " suppressed by the ordinary course of " judicial proceedings,...therefore, to the ' end, that the authority of the laws owy *' be maintained, and that those concerned " directly or indirectly in any insurrection or combination...

...same and obstructing their execution ; and that such combinations are too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or...powers vested in the marshals by the laws of the United Stales : — Now, therefore, to the end that the authority of the laws may be maintained, and that...

...opposed, or the execution thereof obstructed in any state, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshal by this act, it shall be lawful for the president of the United States to call forth the militia...

...condition precedent to the call, that it should be a case of " combination too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshafoy the act ;" (to wit, powers similar to those possessed by a sheriff under the state laws,...

...opposed, or the execution thereof obstructed, in any state, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by this act, it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, to call forth the militia of such...

...*nd " obstructing their execution ; and that " such combinations are too powerful to be " suppressed by the ordinary course of " judicial proceedings,...the marshals by the laws of the " United' States. IVow, therefore, to the " end, that the authority of the laws may " be maintained, and that those concerned...