#confederacy

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

— Jefferson Davis

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Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

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