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Robert Toombs Quotes
Page 2 of 2Robert Toombs
July 2, 1810 - December 15, 1885
Nationality: American
Category: Politician
Subcategory: American Politician
|  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 single act stained with injustice to the North, or with partiality to their own section. | | 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 own benefit, and to pervert its powers for sectional advantage, and they have steadily pursued that policy to this day. | | The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic. | | 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 injury of a single member of the Confederacy. | | The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it. | | 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. |
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