“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
Author: Robert Toombs
Category: history
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“Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion – it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.”
— Robert Toombs
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Category: equality
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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.”
— Robert Toombs
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Category: fear
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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.”
— Robert Toombs
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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.”
— Robert Toombs
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Category: peace
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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.”
— Robert Toombs
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Category: death
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