 | Pamela Brandwein - History - 1999 - 292 pages
...Crittenden Resolution. This joint resolution45 reflected a unionist stance: "[T]his war is not prosecuted upon our part in any spirit of oppression, nor for...interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and all laws made in pursuance... | |
 | Stephen V. Ash - History - 1999 - 332 pages
...Resolution ofJuly 1861, passed with hardly a dissenting vote, which declared "that this war is not waged, on our part, in any spirit of oppression, nor for any...interfering with the rights or established institutions of these States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and to preserve the Union,... | |
 | Jon L. Wakelyn - History - 1999 - 408 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 prosecuted upon our part in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation,... | |
 | Robert Barnwell Rhett - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 182 pages
...Resolved that in this national emergency Congress, banishing all feeling of mere passion or resentment, will recollect only its duty to the whole country;...nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation; nor for the purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those... | |
 | Bruce Ackerman - History - 1991 - 530 pages
...both House and Senate endorsed the Crittenden-Johnson resolution: "That this war is not waged on their part in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose...interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States [in revolt] , but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution, and to preserve... | |
 | Lowell Harrison - History - 2000 - 346 pages
...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 their part in any spirit of oppression, or for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, or purpose... | |
 | John V. Denson - Executive power - 2001 - 830 pages
...resolution, soon passed by the Senate, which explained Northern war aims: This war is not prosecuted upon our part in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor for the purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those... | |
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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... 
