03: The New Nation

no writer has exceeded Paine in ease and familiarity of style; in perspicuity of expression, happiness of elucidation, and in simple and unassuming language.

<p style="text-indent: 1.5em !important;">You have asked my opinion of these persons, and, <span style="text-decoration: underline">to you</span>, I have given it freely. but, remember, that I am old, that I wish not to make new enemies, nor to give offence to those who would consider a difference of opinion as sufficient ground for unfriendly dispositions. God bless you, &amp; make you what I wish you to be.</p><p class="signed"> <span style="font-variant: small-caps">Th: Jefferson</span></p>

That whenever the laws of the United States shall be <b>opposed or the execution thereof obstructed</b>, 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, the same being notified to the President of the United States, by an associate justice or the district judge, it shall be lawful for the President of the United States to call forth the militia of such state to <b>suppress</b> such combinations, and to cause the laws to be duly executed. And if the militia of a state, where such combinations may happen, <b>shall refuse</b>, or be insufficient to suppress the same, it shall be lawful for the President, if the legislature of the United States be not in session, to call forth and employ such numbers of the militia of any other state or states most convenient thereto, as may be necessary, and the use of militia, so to be called forth, may be continued, if necessary, until the expiration of thirty days after the commencement of the ensuing session.