Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government. Robert Toombs Read Quote
Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States – no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them for their section of the Republic. Robert Toombs Read Quote
Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion – it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours. Robert Toombs Read Quote
In 1790 we had less than eight hundred thousand slaves. Under our mild and humane administration of the system they have increased above four millions. Robert Toombs Read Quote
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. Robert Toombs Read Quote
Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Government the sole management of our relations with foreign governments. Robert Toombs Read Quote
The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it. Robert Toombs Read Quote
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. Robert Toombs Read Quote
The mongers brought them together upon a mutual surrender of their principles. Robert Toombs Read Quote