 | Edward McPherson - Reconstruction - 1868 - 144 pages
...of the Government in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights...equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired, and that as soon as these objects should be accomplished the war ought to cease ; RECONSTRUCTION MEASURES.... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 696 pages
...subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States ; but to defend and maintain the supremacy...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 - Biography & Autobiography - 1967 - 904 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: — " But alas Gov — human nature is so frail. When the same Congress has turned right around in... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Howard M. Hensel - United States - 1989 - 344 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; that as soon as these objects are accomplished, the war ought to cease.6 The Lincoln Administration's... | |
 | 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... | |
 | James M. McPherson - History - 1996 - 273 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... | |
 | Andrew Johnson, Paul H. Bergeron - Biography & Autobiography - 1967 - 782 pages
...part of the Government in any spirit of oppression nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights...equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired, and that as soon as these objects should be accomplished the war ought to cease; and Whereas the President... | |
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... 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 or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain... 
