The principles and policy o... by Robert Toombs, an American Politician

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“The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.”

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Robert Toombs

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Name: Robert Toombs

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Jul 2, 1810

Date of Death: Dec 15, 1885

Profession: Politician

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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.

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Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade, are both deaf and blind to the history of the last sixty years.

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The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.

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They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary - everywhere they declare that slavery shall not go into the Territories.

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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.

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