Now show us how.
It was the proper response to his asinine position, wasn't it?
It's clear that Section 2 is a continuation of the grounds in which the President can call out the militia. If the governor or legislature are participants in the rebellion, the "combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by this act" that is referred to. Lincoln was within his authority to call up the militia to suppress the southern rebellion. Now if you believe that my interpretation is incorrect then I hope that you have some competent authority to back up your beliefs. If not, then your opinions and nolu chan's lame interpretation carries no more weight than mine does. And is no more correct.