Robert Toombs Quotes
The mongers brought them together upon a mutual surrender of their principles.
Toombs, Robert. Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs, Delivered in Milledgeville, on Tuesday Evening, November 13, 1860, Before the Legislature of Georgia. Boughton, Nisbet & Barnes, State Printers, 1860.
This slogan was used by the Know-Nothing Party because they would rather continue to accept slavery than plunge the nation into a civil war.
Mediating the conflict between Cuba, Angola and South Africa:
His recipe for mediating disputes.
Robert Augustus Toombs was an American lawyer, planter, and national politician from Georgia who became one of the organizers of the Confederacy and served as its first Secretary of State under President Jefferson Davis. He also served in the Confederate States Army, but later became one of Davis' critics. After the Confederate defeat, Toombs fled the United States. He did not return until 1867, after his daughter's death. He regained political power in Georgia as Congressional Reconstruction ended in 1877.
