Robert Toombs Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them, and all other acquisitions of the Republic, either by purchase or conquest, forever.”

“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.”

“Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred.”

“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.”

“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 none.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war.”

“The mongers brought them together upon a mutual surrender of their principles.”