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
country war fighting
There are courageous and honest men enough in both sections to fight. There is no question of courage involved. The people of both sections of this Union have illustrated their courage on too many battlefields to be questioned. They have shown their fighting qualities shoulder to shoulder whenever their country has called upon them; but that they may never come in contact with each other in fratricidal war, should be the ardent wish of every true man and honest patriot.
war home government
Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government.
war power benefits
We had a large common domain, already added by the several States for the common benefit of all; purchase and war might make large additions to this common domain; hence the power over existing and future territories, with the stipulation to admit new States, was conferred.
war ocean mountain
The firing on that fort will inaugurate a civil war greater than any the world has yet seen…you will lose us every friend at the North. You will wantonly strike a hornet's nest which extends from mountains to ocean. Legions now quiet will swarm out and sting us to death. It is unnecessary. It puts us in the wrong. It is fatal.
acquired extending florida guarantee jefferson monroe
Mr. Monroe acquired Florida from Spain, extending the same guarantee to the inhabitants which Mr. Jefferson had to those of Louisiana.
carriers competition demanded higher
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.
highest interests marked presidents promoting
The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.
government interest member neither nor sought statesmen themselves
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.
brought excitement northern party political position troubles
This position of this Northern party brought about the troubles of 1850, and the political excitement of 1854.
brought surrender
The mongers brought them together upon a mutual surrender of their principles.
general government instant northern policy powers pursued states steadily
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.
acquired california mexico tyler voluntary
Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war.
eight humane hundred increased less mild system thousand
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.
acquired california demanded either excluded mexico purchase
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.