The life and public services of Abraham Lincoln ... together with his state papers, including his speeches, addresses, messages, letters, and proclamations, and the closing scenes connected with his life and death. By Henry J. Raymond. To which are added anecdotes and personal reminiscences of President Lincoln, by Frank B. Carpenter.

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to suppress the rebellion, and restore the authority of the
Government, which was adopted, with but five opposing
votes; and on tllh 22d of July, Mr. Crittendi(ii, of Kentucky, offered the following resolution, defiining tle oljects
of 'the war:
Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United
States, That the present deplorable civil war has been forcedl upon tile
country by the disunionists of the Southern States, nlow in arms against
the Constitutional Government, and in arms arounld tlle Capital; tlat in
this national cmerietlncy. Congress, banishing all feelings of mlere passion
or reseitmitent, will r cvollect only its duty to the whotle country; that this
war is not wa.-led on tlhir )paIt in any spirit of opression, o' for any purpose of cnquest or subjugation, or purpose of overthrowing or interfering
with the rights or established institutions of those Statcs, but to detend
and maintain the supremacy of the C('nstitution, and to lpres!rve the
Union with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several St:ltes unimpaired; and that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war
ought to cease.
This resolution was adopted, with but two dissenting
votes. II was accepted by the whole country as defining
the obj(ects and limiting the continuance of the war, and
was re(garded with special favor by the loyal citizens of
the Border States, whose sensitiveness on the subject of
slavery lhad been skilfully and zealously played upon by
the agents and allies of the rebel confederacy. The war
was universally represented by these men as waged for
the destruction of slavery, and as aiming, not at the preservation of the Union, but the emancipation of the slaves;
and there was great danger that these appeals to the pride,
the interest, and the prejudices of the Border Slave States
might bring them to join their fortunes to those of the
rebellion. The passage of this resolution, with so great a
degree of unanimity, had a very soothing effect upon the
apprehensions of these States, and contributed largely to
strengthen the Government in its contest with the rebellion.
The sentiments of Congress on this matter, as well as on
the general subject of the war, were still further developed
in the debates which followed the introduction to the House
of a bill passed by the Senate to "confiscate property
used for insurrectionary purposes." It was referred to