Sumter, Fort, Confederate demand for surrender of, 222;
abandonment favored by Lincoln's Cabinet, 223;
preparations to provision, 224;
orders to Beauregard, 225;
bombardment of, 227-229

Superstition, Toombs' views on, 367

Supreme Court of Georgia, practice in, 20-22, 24, 25;
establishment of, 41

Suretyship, opposition to contracts of, 41, 42

Swedenborg, Toombs' fondness for, 368

Swinton, William, on Lincoln's administration, 272

Taliaferro County, assigned to Seventh Congressional District, 44

Taney, Roger B., decision in Dred Scott case, 159

Tariff, Whigs favor protective, 31;
defense of the, 48-50;
in campaign of 1844, 51;
modified in 1832, 52;
Toombs' attitude on, 52;
prominence of the question in 1845, 56;
bill of 1846, 59

Taxation, attitude on Georgia, 54

Taylor, Gen. Dick, on Toombs' energy, 279, 280

Taylor, Zachary, nominated for President, 60;
elected, 63;
attitude of Cabinet toward the South, 64;
reported rupture with Toombs and Stephens, 64, 65;
death, 65;
opinion on disposition of acquired territory, 67;
Toombs' opinion of, 367

Tennessee secedes, 233

Territories, Toombs' position on slavery in, 69, 76-78, 80, 132,
166, 167, 181;
protest by Nashville convention in regard to, 85;
the Georgia Platform, 86;
the slavery question in the, 87;
third great sectional fight on the, 107-115;
Toombs on Federal power over, 111, 132, 133;
the Cincinnati Platform, 141;
Hill on rights of, 148;
Buchanan's position on question of, 159;
Douglas' views on admission of, 160;
Southern view of Dred Scott decision as affecting slavery in, 162;
Buchanan's resolution in Cincinnati Platform, 165;
contest over slavery in, in Charleston contention, 177;
demands of the South as to, 206

Texas, Toombs' attitude on annexation of, 53;
prominence of question in 1845, 56;
Toombs' purchase of lands in, 152, 153;
visit to, 153;
delegates leave Charleston convention, 177

Texas and New Mexico bill, passed, 80

"The Crime against Kansas," 142

Thomas, Thomas W., as a lawyer, 16;
leader of campaign of 1848 in Georgia, 60;
on Toombs' characteristics, 272

Thompson, Jacob, member of the Twenty-ninth Congress, 56;
leader in U. S. Senate, 107

Tilden, S. J., interview with Gen. Gordon, 321

_Times_ (London), on bombardment of Sumter, 228, 229

Tobacco, Toombs'