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Robert Toombs
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"Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion – it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours."
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Robert Toombs
Topic(s):
Equality
"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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Robert Toombs
Topic(s):
Equality
"The North understand it better – they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits – surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death."
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Robert Toombs
Topic(s):
Death
"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."
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Robert Toombs
Topic(s):
Peace
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