Robert Toombs Quotes

• Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade, are both deaf and blind to the history of the last sixty years.

  Robert Toombs

  Topics in History, Uncategorized

• 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.

  Robert Toombs

  Topics in History, Uncategorized

• Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred.

  Robert Toombs

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Different

• 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.

  Robert Toombs

  Topics in Power

  Tags in War

• Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States – no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them for their section of the Republic.

  Robert Toombs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ever, Advantage

• Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion – it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.

  Robert Toombs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Necessary, Equal

• Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war.

  Robert Toombs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Successful, War

• 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.

  Robert Toombs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Less, System

• I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and the prospect before us, that I can bring you no good tidings.

  Robert Toombs

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Regret

• 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.

  Robert Toombs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Single, Government

• Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Government the sole management of our relations with foreign governments.

  Robert Toombs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Peace, Government

• The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.

  Robert Toombs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Perfect, Government

• The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.

  Robert Toombs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Principles, Highest, Interests

• There were thousands of abolitionists who were free traders.

  Robert Toombs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Free, Thousand, Trader

• 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.

  Robert Toombs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fire, Understand

• 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.

  Robert Toombs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Purpose

• The door of conciliation and compromise is finally closed by our adversaries, and it remains only to us to meet the conflict with the dignity and firmness of men worthy of freedom.

  Robert Toombs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Men, Freedom

• The mongers brought them together upon a mutual surrender of their principles.

  Robert Toombs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Principles, Surrender

• 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.

  Robert Toombs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Order, Higher

• They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary – everywhere they declare that slavery shall not go into the Territories.

  Robert Toombs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Slavery

Robert Toombs (26)

Birth:	2nd July, 1810
Death:	15th December, 1885
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

About

Robert Augustus Toombs was an American and Confederate political leader, Whig Party Senator from Georgia, a founding father of the Confederacy, its first Secretary of State, and a minor Confederate general in the Civil War.

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