Robert Toombs

“The South will never be subjugated.”

“Let us depart in peace.”

“Give us our just rights, and we are ready for union, for war, for anything.”

“I will consent to anything to save the Union, but the Constitution.”

“The cause of the South is the cause of my country, the cause of the Constitution, the cause of civil liberty.”

“We want no negro equality, no negro citizenship; we want no negro race to degrade our own.”

“Slavery is a divine institution.”

“I am a Georgian and a Southerner; if I had to choose between my State and the Union, I should choose my State.”

“We are the last of the constitutional free peoples of the earth.”

“I ask you to give me the sword, for if you do not give it to me, I will take it.”