Statistics for occurrence #1 of “America” in chapter intro, page 12 of Rebellion Record: Introduction., Volume 1.:
...nized to be independent.
It would be more accurate to say that the United States each by name were so recognized.
Such enumeration was necessary, in order to fix beyond doubt, which of the Anglo- America n colonies, twenty-five or six in number, were included in the recognition. But it is surely a far more significant circumstance, that the separate States are not named in the Declaration
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