 | David Brion Davis, Steven Mintz - History - 1998 - 607 pages
...overthrowing or interfering with the established institutions of those States, but to maintain the States unimpaired; and that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war should cease." Fearful of alienating the slave states that remained in the Union — Delaware, Kentucky,... | |
 | Bruce Ackerman - History - 1991 - 530 pages
...their 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 [in revolt] , but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution, and to preserve the Union... | |
 | John V. Denson - Executive power - 2001 - 830 pages
...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...and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and all laws made in pursuance thereof, and to preserve the Union, with all the dignity, equality, and... | |
 | Robert F. Engs, Randall M. Miller - History - 2002 - 226 pages
...part in any spirit of oppression, or lor any purpose of conquest or subiugation, nor for the purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or...as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease.1 Republicans owned great majorities in Congress, so the vote represented a cringingly practical... | |
 | Stig Förster, Jorg Nagler - History - 2002 - 724 pages
...rights or established institutions of the States"— in plain words, slavery — but intended only "to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution...dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired."13 There were, to be sure, murmurings in the North against this soft-war approach, this... | |
 | Franklin Aretas Haskell - History - 2002 - 128 pages
...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...and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and all laws made in pursuance thereof and to preserve the Union, with all the dignity, equality, and rights... | |
 | History - 2003 - 260 pages
...the House he now offered a resolution reassuring Southerners the war aimed not to overthrow slavery, "but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and to preserve the Union." The House adopted the resolution, conforming to Lincoln's views, with only two nays. In the Senate... | |
 | Julian E. Zelizer - Political Science - 2004 - 800 pages
...part in any spirit of oppression, or for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor for the purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or...equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired; and ... as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease. (Cong. Glohe, 37 Cong., 1 sess.,... | |
 | Clement A. Evans - 2004 - 568 pages
...solemnly declared that the war was waged “to defend the Constitution and all laws in pursuance thereof, and to preserve the Union with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired; that as soon as these objects were accomplished the war ought to cease.” This was the accepted theory... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 374 pages
...state that "this war is not waged upon our part in any spirit of oppression, nor for any . . . purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States." The Crittenden Resolution, carefully crafted to keep slavery from becoming the target, passed by a... | |
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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... 
