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"Why," says Villiam, confidentially, "they didn't bring a single one back with them, and of course they must have left them sticking into the paralyzed Confederacies."

From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 by Newell, R. H. (Robert Henry)

On the following morning, it was discovered that fresh Confederacies had come up from Paris.

From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 3 by Newell, Robert H.

These Confederacies had even penetrated into storied Accomac, and removed everything they found upon the farms there except the mortgages.

From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 3 by Newell, Robert H.

Though it would be to the advantage of both Confederacies that there should be this interchange, you preclude Congress from allowing it; and then where would that place the border slave States?

From A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 by Chittenden, L. E. (Lucius Eugene)

Immediately a hand was seen reaching down after it, the hat was drawn up, and a prodigious horse-laugh arose from the uncomely Confederacies in the Fort.

From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 3 by Newell, Robert H.