 | Richard Striner - History - 2006 - 320 pages
...purpose of "overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions" of any state, but "to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution...dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired."11 In other words, slavery was not to be molested in any of the states that permitted it,... | |
 | Robert F. Hawes - Political Science - 2006 - 357 pages
...conquest, or for interfering with the rights, or established institutions of these States [the Confederate states], but to defend, and maintain the supremacy...Constitution, and to preserve the Union, with all the dignity and rights of the several States unimpaired. ^ This resolution is particularly meaningful when you... | |
 | David Dirck Van Tassel, John Vacha - History - 2006 - 148 pages
...any purpose of conquest or subjugation, or purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights of established institutions of those States, but to defend...supremacy of the Constitution and to preserve the Union." This declaration, known as the Crittenden Resolution, after its sponsor, Representative John J. Crittenden... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 896 pages
...subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of the States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of...Constitution, and to preserve the Union, with all the dignities, equality and rights of the several States unimpaired ; and that as soon as these objects... | |
 | Edward Mayes - 2006 - 404 pages
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Congress, banishing all feelings 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... 
