Robert Toombs Quotes

• El fuego sobre ese fuerte inaugurará una guerra civil mayor que cualquier otra que el mundo haya visto... nos hará perder a todos los amigos del Norte. Golpearán un avispero que se extiende desde las montañas hasta el océano. Legiones ahora silenciosas saldrán y nos picarán hasta la muerte. Es innecesario. Nos pone en el error. Es fatal.

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  War, Ocean, Mountain

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• Liberty, in its last analysis, is but the sweat of the poor and the blood of the brave.

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  Blood, Sweat, Brave

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

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  Independent, Equality, Government

  Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.3

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• 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.

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  Men, Doors, Dignity

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• 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.

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  País, Guerra, Lucha

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• The day the army of Virginia allows a negro regiment to enter their lines as soldiers they will be degraded, ruined, and disgraced.

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  Army, Virginia, Soldier

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• 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.

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  Years, Deaf And Blind, Territory

  Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.8

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• We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands.

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  Rights, Hands, Long

  Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.3

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• They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to none.

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  Justice, Special, Principles

  Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.5

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• 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.

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  Government, Agents, Common

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• Con estas enormes ventajas, ordinarias y extraordinarias, uno habría supuesto que el Norte se habría contentado, y al menos habría respetado la seguridad y tranquilidad de tan obedientes y provechosos hermanos; pero tal no es la naturaleza humana.

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  Nature, Ordinary Extraordinary, Quiet

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• 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.

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  Sanctuary, Slavery, Territory

  Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.8

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• 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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  Power, Different, Regulation

  Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.4

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

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  Equality, Giving, Expansion

  Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.8

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• Sr. Presidente, en este momento es un suicidio, un asesinato, y nos hará perder a todos los amigos del Norte. Golpeará sin querer un avispero que se extiende de la montaña al océano, y legiones ahora silenciosas saldrán en enjambre y nos picarán hasta la muerte.

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  Suicide, War, Ocean

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• 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

  Country, Regret, Addresses

  Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.3

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• 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.

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  Republic, Causes, Advantage

  Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.4

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• 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.

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  War, Home, Power

  Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.4

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• 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.

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  War, Power, Benefits

  Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.4

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