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https://www.politico.com/story/2007/07/congress-declares-civil-wars-aims-july-25-1861-005095
Congress declares Civil War's aims July 25, 1861
By ANDREW GLASS 07/25/2007 06:04 AM EDT
On this day in 1861, Congress enacted a resolution declaring that the Civil War was being fought to preserve the Union, not to abolish the South's "peculiar institution" of slavery. The resolution was named for Rep. John Crittenden of Kentucky (1786-1863) and Sen. Andrew Johnson of Tennessee (1808-1875), who became president upon the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
The resolution was aimed at keeping the pivotal states of Missouri, Kentucky and Maryland in the Union. As the war had begun a few months before, in April, Lincoln was worried that those three slave-holding states might join the Confederacy. (Delaware, the other slave state on the Union side, had so few slaves that its fealty was never in doubt.) Were Maryland to bolt, the nation's capital would be surrounded by Confederate territory. And since Lincoln was born in Kentucky, losing the state early could be viewed as a major political setback for the White House.
The resolution said the war was being fought not for "overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those states," but to "defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and to preserve the Union." The war, it further stated, would end when the seceding states returned to the Union.
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