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that in this national emergency congress, banishing all feelings of mere passion and resentment woill recollect its duty only to the whole country; that this war is not urged on their part in any spirit of rebellion or for any purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the right sof those states, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the constitution and to preserve the Union with all its dignity, equality and rights of the states unimpaired and that so soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease. 1" It was called the Crittenden resolution and was adopted with only two dissenting votes. 
Mr. Crittenden opposed the employment of slaves as soldiers and more strongly opposed the conscription bill, as he believed the
1. Jas. G. Blaine - Twenty Years in Congress Vol 1 p 338

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137 that in this national emergency congress, banishing all feelings of mere passion and resentment woill recollect its duty only to the whole country; that this war is not urged on their part in any spirit of rebellion or for any purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the right sof those states, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the constitution and to preserve the Union with all its dignity, equality and rights of the states unimpaired and that so soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease. 1" It was called the Crittenden resolution and was adopted with only two dissenting votes. Mr. Crittenden opposed the employment of slaves as soldiers and more strongly opposed the conscription bill, as he believed the 1. Jas. G. Blaine - Twenty Years in Congress Vol 1 p 338