confederacy

• If that confederacy was an independent Power, a separate nation, it had the right to contract debts; and we, having overthrown and conquered that independent Power, according to the theory of the gentleman from Pennsylvania, would become the successors, the inheritors, of its debts and assets, and we must pay them Mr. Raymond set forth his theory of the conditions and relations of the late rebel States in the following language: "I certainly do not think these States are to be dealt with by us as provinces--as simply so much territory--held to us by no other ties than those of conquest. —  History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States
• With the politics of party--involving the confederacy, the enslavement, the selfishness, the exclusion, the trickery, the antipathies, the crimination of party, no good man ought to be identified.... With the politics of government--involving its objects, its principles its balanced powers, its operations--even against the encroachments of any party--every British subject has much to do. —  The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada
• A distinct confederacy, a new government, has been organized within the limits of the United States Does Virginia to-day, frown upon this atrocious proceeding? —  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
• French influence was strongest at the western end of the confederacy, among the Senecas, where the French officer Joncaire, an Iroquois by adoption, had won many to France; and it was weakest at the eastern end, among the Mohawks, who were nearest to the English settlements. —  A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I France and England in North America
• To counteract this formidable confederacy, the English sent a fleet of 18 sail of the line, with a few frigates, and a number of bomb-vessels and gunboats, in the first place to attack the Danish fleet, and then to take in hand the other two confederates. —  How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900

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