Robert Toombs
Robert Toombs
Robert Augustus Toombswas an American politician who was a founding father of the Confederacy and its first Secretary of State...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth2 July 1810
CountryUnited States of America
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The mongers brought them together upon a mutual surrender of their principles.
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They demanded a monopoly of the coasting trade, in order to get higher freights than they could get in open competition with the carriers of the world.
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The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.
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Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for the injury of a single member of the Confederacy.
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The instant the Government was organized, at the very first Congress, the Northern States evinced a general desire and purpose to use it for their own benefit, and to pervert its powers for sectional advantage, and they have steadily pursued that policy to this day.
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Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war.
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In 1790 we had less than eight hundred thousand slaves. Under our mild and humane administration of the system they have increased above four millions.
There were thousands of abolitionists who were free traders.
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The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits - surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death.
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We can today open wide the history of their administrations and point with pride to every act, and challenge the world to point out a single act stained with injustice to the North, or with partiality to their own section.
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They (the Secessionists) appealed to the Constitution, they appealed to justice, they appealed to fraternity, until the Constitution, justice, and fraternity were no longer listened to in the legislative halls of their country, and then, sir, they pr
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When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them, and all other acquisitions of the Republic, either by purchase or conquest, forever.
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This position of this Northern party brought about the troubles of 1850, and the political excitement of 1854.