 | Society of the Army of the Tennessee - United States - 1877 - 554 pages
...overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of the States in rebellion; but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution,...equality and rights of the several States unimpaired. In this purpose and spirit vou fought, interfering in no wise with the institution of slavery, save... | |
 | Economics - 1896 - 582 pages
...Union convention, and declared that " our object in taking up arms to suppress the late rebellion was to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution,...with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the States unimpaired." The great mass of the soldiers, however, were earnest sup1 McPherson, History of... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - America - 1888 - 810 pages
...purpose of conquest or subjugation, or purpose of or Р.Чoverthrowing or interfering with the righU or established institutions of those states, but to...equality, and rights of the several states unimpaired ; and that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease." He opposed the employment... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 696 pages
...not waged, on our part, in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the...equality, and rights, of the several States unimpaired ; and, as soon as these objects are accomplished, the war ought to cease." Mr. Stevens, of Pa., objecting,... | |
 | James Walter Fertig - History - 1898 - 120 pages
...the purpose of subjugation, nor for interfering with any rights or institutions of the states, but "to preserve the Union with all the dignity, equality and rights of the several states unimpaired." This resolution was adopted by the House without debate and with only two dissenting votes. It was... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - 1967 - 760 pages
...subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of these States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of...equality and rights of the several States unimpaired; and that as soon as these objects are accomplished, the war ought to cease."3 In this spirit, and by... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - Biography & Autobiography - 1967 - 904 pages
...the country by the disunionists of the southern States" and "that this war is not waged . . . for ... overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established...equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired; and that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease." The resolution was divided:... | |
 | James M. McPherson - History - 1988 - 952 pages
...overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of [the seceded] States" but only "to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution...equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired."' Republicans would soon change their minds about this. But in July 1861 even radicals who hoped that... | |
 | James M. McPherson - History - 2003 - 947 pages
...overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of [the seceded] States" but only "to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution...dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired."9 Republicans would soon change their minds about this. But in July 1861 even radicals... | |
 | Roger L. Ransom - Business & Economics - 1989 - 340 pages
...with the rights or established institutions" of the rebellious states. The government sought merely to "defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution,...dignity, equality, and rights of the several states unimpaired."60 In late August 1 86 1, General John C. Fremont, union commander in Missouri, issued... | |
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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... 
