Robert Toombs

“The South will never be subjugated.”

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

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

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

“Let us depart in peace.”

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

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

“Slavery is a divine institution.”

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

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