...Government without cause by the ait402 403 unionists, should not be waged upon the part of the Government in any "spirit of oppression, or for any purpose of...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...

...That the unhappy civil war in which we are engaged was waged, in the beginning, professedly, " not in any spirit of oppression, or for any purpose ,of...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,...

...with the rights or established institutions of the States [meaning thereby, especially, slavery] ; but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution,...dignity, equality, and rights of the several States uni inquired."* It was found at length, that, instead of being an element of weakness, as at first...

...expressed in the resolution of Congress of July 1861, wherein the war is declared to be prosecuted not in any spirit of oppression, or for any purpose of...interfering with, the rights or established institutions of any of the States, but to defend and maintain, the supremacy of the Constitution and to preserve the...

...to our people and to the civilized world when we engaged in this bloody war, " that it was not waged in any spirit of oppression, or for any purpose of...purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights of established institutions in those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution,...

...the rights of established institutions in those states, but to defend and maintjiin the supremaey^of the Constitution, and to preserve the Union with all...and rights of the several states unimpaired ; and that^as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease." HORATIO .''SEYMOUR.. A FLEXIBLE...

...In the language heretofore solemnly adopted by Congress, the war ought not to be waged on our part for any purpose of conquest or subjugation or purpose...equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired, am', as soon as those objects are accomplished the war ought to cease. Resolved, That all necessary...

...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 rights...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,...

...Congress, banishing all feelings of mere passion or resentment, will recollect only its duty to tbe whole country; that this war is not waged on their...established institutions of those States, but to defend nnd maintain the supremacy of the Constitution, and to preserve the Union with all the dignity, equality,...

...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 rights...supremacy of the Constitution, and to preserve the I'nion, with all the dignity, equality, and rights, of the several States unimpaired; and, as soon...