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Title: Robert Toombs
Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage

Author: Pleasant A. Stovall

Release Date: July 16, 2008 [EBook #26069]

Language: English

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ROBERT TOOMBS

[Illustration: ROBERT TOOMBS, AT THE AGE OF 75 YEARS.]

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

BY

PLEASANT A. STOVALL

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"The blood which mingled at Cowpens and at Eutaw
cannot be kept at enmity forever."--_Toombs._

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NEW YORK
CASSELL PUBLISHING COMPANY
104 & 106 FOURTH AVENUE

Copyright, 1892,
BY CASSELL PUBLISHING COMPANY.

_All rights reserved._

THE MERSHON COMPANY PRESS, RAHWAY, N. J.

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Dedication.

TO ROBERT TOOMBS DU BOSE, WHOSE INTEREST AND AID WERE INVALUABLE, AND
WITHOUT WHOSE COOPERATION THE BIOGRAPHY COULD NOT HAVE BEEN PREPARED,
THIS WORK IS DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR.

"There are courageous and honest men enough in both
sections to fight. There is no question of courage
involved. The people of both sections of this Union have
illustrated their courage on too many battlefields to be
questioned. They have shown their fighting qualities
shoulder to shoulder whenever their country has called upon
them; but that they may never come in contact with each
other in fratricidal war, should be the ardent wish of