 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 896 pages
...capital ; that in this National emergency Congress, banishing all feeling of mere passion or resentment, will recollect only its duty to the whole country ; that this war is not waged on our part in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose... | |
 | Richard Striner - History - 2006 - 320 pages
...his seat in the United States Senate), declared that the war was definitely not to be fought for the purpose of "overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions" of any state, but "to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and to preserve the Union... | |
 | Stephen Skowronek, Matthew Glassman - United States - 2007 - 464 pages
...slavery in the states; three weeks later he told Congress that "this war is not waged . . . for any purpose . . . of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of ... Southern states."29 Militant and moderate abolitionists alike were undaunted, pressing strongly... | |
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Congress, banishing all feeling of mere passion or resentment, will recollect only its duty to the whole country; that 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... 
