 | Howard M. Hensel - United States - 1989 - 344 pages
...respectively, overwhelming passed the resolution offered by John J. Crittenden of Kentucky which stated, . . . that this war is not waged, upon our part, in any spirit of oppression, not for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the... | |
 | Richard Ellis, Aaron B. Wildavsky - Political Science - 1989 - 260 pages
...Senate passed near-unanimous resolutions stating that "this war is not waged upon our part ... for any purpose ... of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of ... southern States."" Restoration of the Union, not emancipation of slaves, clearly and unmistakably... | |
 | James M. McPherson - History - 1964 - 496 pages
...the Crittenden and Johnson resolutions stating that "this war is not waged upon our part ... for any purpose ... of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of ... southern States" plunged the abolitionists into deeper gloom.41 Little public attention was focused... | |
 | Andrew Johnson, Paul H. Bergeron - Biography & Autobiography - 1967 - 782 pages
...unanimity, solemnly declared that the war then existing was not waged on the part of the Government in any spirit of oppression nor for any purpose of...interfering with the rights or established institutions of the States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and to preserve the Union,... | |
 | Hans Louis Trefousse - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 352 pages
...Crirtenden, on July 19, sought to introduce his resolution declaring that the war was not being waged for any "purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions" of the 1nsurgent states but "to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and to preserve... | |
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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... 
