... this war is not waged upon our part in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the... Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Page 122edited by - 1866Full view - About this book
| Edmund Burke - History - 1869 - 652 pages
...established institutions of the States ; but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution, and to preserve the Union with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired. The subjugation of these States, or the holding of them as conquered territory, would be, in the judgment... | |
| Kentucky - Law - 1863 - 840 pages
...institutions of any of the States, free or slave, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and to preserve the Union with all the dignity, equality,...objects are accomplished, the war ought to cease." Resolved, That in the adoption of the foregoing resolution by the National Congress, with unprecedented... | |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1862 - 628 pages
...established institutions of these States; but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution, and to preserve the Union, with all the dignity, equality,...objects are accomplished the war ought to cease.' (Yeas, 117; Nays, 2.) We will go still further back — to the fourth of March — when the PresidentTlie... | |
| Joel Parker - 1856 - 554 pages
...established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution, and to preserve the Union, with all the dignity, equality,...objects are accomplished the war ought to cease." The acts of the persons who have participated in the insurrection were treasonable, but treason, by... | |
| Horace Greeley, John Fitch Cleveland, F. J. Ottarson, Alexander Jacob Schem, Edward McPherson, Henry Eckford Rhoades - Almanacs, American - 1868 - 672 pages
...the States, but only to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution of the United States, and to preserve the Union with all the dignity, equality,...rights of the several States unimpaired; and that so soon as these objects should be accomplished, the war on the part of the government should cease:... | |
| Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...or interfering with the rights or established institutions " of the Southern States; it was solely " to preserve the Union with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired." JA thii rr iohitinn mny hr* fni'nd f^p ^"p tr> the supreme political problem with which, side by side... | |
| United States. Congress. House - United States - 1861 - 340 pages
...established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution, and to preserve the Union with all the dignity, equality,...these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease. Mr. Crittenden submitted the following resolution, viz: Pending which, Mr. Lovejoy moved that it be... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1861 - 308 pages
...institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and all laws made in pursuance thereof, and to preserve the...equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired ; that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease. 1st Session, \ I No. 8. IN... | |
| Sir William Howard Russell - Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861 - 1861 - 1102 pages
...established institutions of those States bat to defend and maintain tbe supremacy of the Constitution and to preserve the Union, with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired, arid that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease." May we not enquire with... | |
| John Gross Barnard - Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861 - 1862 - 152 pages
...established institutions of these states, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and to preserve the Union, with all the dignity, equality,...objects are accomplished the war ought to cease." ceived all but two, and in the Senate all but one vote." And Earl Russell, in his letter to Lord Lyons... | |
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