Robert Toombs, Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage: His Career in Congress and on the Hustings--His Work in the Courts--His Record with the Army--His Life at Home
Robert Toombs, Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage: His Career in Congress and on the Hustings--His Work in the Courts--His Record with the Army--His Life at Home
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ...could make better terms out of the Union than in it." The greater part of the people was fired with this fervor, which they felt to be patriotic. Graybearded men vied with the hot blood of youth, and a venerable citizen of Augusta, illuminating his residence from dome to cellar, blazoned with candles ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ...could make better terms out of the Union than in it." The greater part of the people was fired with this fervor, which they felt to be patriotic. Graybearded men vied with the hot blood of youth, and a venerable citizen of Augusta, illuminating his residence from dome to cellar, blazoned with candles this device upon his gateway--" Georgia, right or wrong--Georgia!" Never was a movement so general, so spontaneous. Those who charged the leaders of that day with precipitating their States into revolution upon a wild dreani of power, did not know the spirit and the temper of the people who composed that movement. Northern men who had moved South and engaged in business, as a general thing, stood shoulder to shoulder with their Southern brethren, and went out with the companies that first responded to the call to war. The South sacrificed much, in a material point of view, in going into civil conflict. In the decade between 1850 and 1860, the wealth of the South had increased three billions of dollars, and Georgia alone had shown a growth measured by two hundred millions. Her aggregate wealth at the time she passed the Ordinance of Secession was six hundred and seventy-two millions, double what it is to-day. In one year her increase was sixty-two millions. Business of all kinds was prospering. But her people did not count the cost when they considered that their rights were invaded. Georgia was the fifth State to secede. South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida had preceded her. Of the six States which formed the Provisional Government, Georgia had relatively a smaller number of slaves than any, and her State debt was only a little more than two and a half millions of dollars. Her voting population was barely 100,000, but she...
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Good. New York: Cassell Publishing Company, 1892. 1st edition. viii, 396pp. Portraits. Good book. Rebound. Original baords are edgeworn, but have been treated. (Georgia, Confederate States of America) Inquire if you need further information.
