"The firing on that fort will inaugurate a……" — Robert Toombs

The firing on that fort will inaugurate a civil war greater than… - Robert Toombs

"The firing on that fort will inaugurate a civil war greater than any the world has yet seen…you will lose us every friend at the North. You will wantonly strike a hornet's nest which extends from mountains to ocean. Legions now quiet will swarm out and sting us to death. It is unnecessary. It puts us in the wrong. It is fatal."

— Robert Toombs

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