#confederacy

If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory. ↗

— Jefferson Davis

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Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for the injury of a single member of the Confederacy. ↗

— Robert Toombs

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