Robert Toombs Quotes

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• This position of this Northern party brought about the troubles of 1850, and the political excitement of 1854.
• 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…
• There were thousands of abolitionists who were free traders.
• The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.
• The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits…
• The mongers brought them together upon a mutual surrender of their principles.
• 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…
• 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…
• Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by 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.
• We can to-day open wide the history of their administrations and point with pride to every act, and challenge the world to point out a…
• They (the Secessionists) appealed to the Constitution, they appealed to justice, they appealed to fraternity, until the Constitution, justice, and fraternity were no longer listened…

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