They felt the Union should be preserved. They felt that, by states leaving the Union, they were violating the agreement that formed the United States, that the rebel secessionists were, in fact, committing treason.
he believed in the confederacy (the rights of southern states) and secession from the union
This period of the post-war years was known as the Reconstruction.
The states that DID NOT secede from the Union was Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri. These four states did not secede from the Union because They were Border states, meaning they were between the Union and the Confederacy.
As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.George Mason
The goal of the North was at first to bring the Southern states back into the Union. later on Lincoln said in the Emancipation Proclamation that he would free all Southern slaves if the Union won the war
The union and the south was confederate states
They claimed that the USA had started as a voluntary federation of states, and that any of them could leave when they chose.
he called for a majority of voters to each southerner states to pledge lotalty to the u.s
He would state they would defend the right of the States and their way of life.
he believed in the confederacy (the rights of southern states) and secession from the union
The Congress
So the union can't get through
bring states back into the Union
To bring the Southern states back into the Union.
By war, as it happened.
Cotton, tobacco, food, culture, history.
to bring the southern states to the union