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 Quotes
Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred.
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| Birth: | 2nd July, 1810 |
| Death: | 15th December, 1885 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Politician |
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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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