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.
With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected … - Robert Toombs
With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected …
- Robert Toombs
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, u… - Robert Toombs
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, u…
Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Governmen… - Robert Toombs
Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Governmen…
The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it. - Robert Toombs
The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.
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 fir… - Robert Toombs
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 fir…
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 n… - Robert Toombs
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 n…
The day the army of Virginia allows a negro regiment to enter their lines as soldiers they will be degraded, ruined, and disgraced. - Robert Toombs
The day the army of Virginia allows a negro regiment to enter their lines as soldiers they will be degraded, ruined, and disgraced.
Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade, are… - Robert Toombs
Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade, are…
Liberty, in its last analysis, is but the sweat of the poor and the blood of the brave. - Robert Toombs
Liberty, in its last analysis, is but the sweat of the poor and the blood of the brave.
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