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Excerpt from The Struggle Between President Johnson and Congress Over Reconstruction
The extreme solicitude felt by Congress for the proper preservation of the sovereign privileges of these States is shown by the practical unanimity with which a resolution submitted by Mr. Crittenden, on July 22, was carried, there being only two dissenting voices.x It declared the sense of the House to be that2 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 Wuon and to preserve the Union with all the di nit e ualit and rights of the several States unim aired' and that as soon as these ob'ects are accom lished the war ou ht to cease. Three days later, Andrew Johnson, then a Senator from Tennessee, submitted the same resolution in the Senate,3 where it was also carried with practical unanimity, although the discussion indicated a confused idea as to its exact sig nificance.
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