...and the Coming of the Civil War, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997), 114. pose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing...rights or established institutions of those States [italics added], but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and to preserve the Union...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...whole country ; that this war is not waged on our part in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing...interfering with the rights or established institutions of the States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution, and to preserve the Union,...