States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution. and to preserve the Union with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired: and that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease. 1819-1880 - Page 461by John Thomas Scharf - 1879Full view - About this book
| Edmund Burke - History - 1869 - 652 pages
...subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing1 or interfering with the rights or established institutions of the States ; but to defend and maintain the supremacy...equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired. The subjugation of these States, or the holding of them as conquered territory, would be, in the judgment... | |
| Kentucky - Law - 1863 - 840 pages
...should not be waged upon the part of the Government in any "spirit of oppression, or for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, or purpose of overthrowing...interfering with the rights or established institutions of any of the States, free or slave, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and... | |
| Joel Parker - 1856 - 554 pages
...The Resolve of Congress expressly asserts that "the war is not waged on their part for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, or purpose of overthrowing...with the rights or established institutions of those [Southern] States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution," &c. And the "great... | |
| Horace Greeley, John Fitch Cleveland, F. J. Ottarson, Alexander Jacob Schem, Edward McPherson, Henry Eckford Rhoades - Almanacs, American - 1868 - 672 pages
...government in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation , nor for any purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of the States, but only to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution of the United States,... | |
| Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...or interfering with the rights or established institutions " of the Southern States; it was solely " to preserve the Union with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired." JA thii rr iohitinn mny hr* fni'nd f^p ^"p tr> the supreme political problem with which, side by side... | |
| United States. Congress. House - United States - 1861 - 340 pages
...vhole 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 of overthrowing...the several States unimpaired; and that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease. Mr. Crittenden submitted the following resolution,... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1861 - 308 pages
...prosecuted 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...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... | |
| Sir William Howard Russell - Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861 - 1861 - 1102 pages
...duty to the whole country. That war is not waged on their part in any spirit of oppression, or for any conquest or subjugation, or purpose of overthrowing...rights, or established institutions of those States bat to defend and maintain tbe supremacy of the Constitution and to preserve the Union, with all the... | |
| Joseph Reed Ingersoll - Secession - 1861 - 52 pages
...purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights of established institutions of the Southern States, but to defend and. maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and to preserve the Union." Notwithstanding such authentic declarations from successive executives, and a specially called Legislature... | |
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