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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The dismemberment of Virginia. (search)
would hardly suffice to wrest the organic law of the Union so far from the purpose of its framers as to render it applicable to a condition in which one portion of the States are invaded, subjugated and governed as military districts by the other portion. So manifest, indeed, was this that the Congress at Washington, impelled by an unacknowledged, but not the less imperative sense of it, felt constrained, while in the very act of prosecuting a war as distinctly one of conquest as that which Xerxes waged against Greece, or Edward I against Scotland, to disclaim in words any purpose of conquest or subjugation, or the overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those (the seceding) States, and to declare by solemn resolution its object to be simply the preservation of the Union, with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired. This is in the very spirit of the scriptural son, who answered and said, I go, sir; and went not. I