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A frivolous, meaningless declaration filled with whereases and therefores to pretend our boys in blue were winners?

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2020

After four resonant whereases, the resolution reached the two sore spots.

From Time Magazine Archive

Chairman Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee drafted an eloquent joint resolution with many whereases describing the brutality of the Spanish conflict, the danger of its dragging the U. S. into war. etc., etc.

From Time Magazine Archive

I forgot to make any speech, but went right at the whereases at once.

From How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion or, The Funny Experiences of a Raw Recruit - 1887 by Peck, George W. (George Wilbur)

There ain't but three whereases, because Sallie Green copied them out of a paper when Mr. Joynes died, just changing to suit a live person, and the last one comes way down.

From Miss Gibbie Gault by Bosher, Kate Langley