“When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them, and all other acquisitions of the Republic, either by purchase or conquest, forever.Quote by Robert ToombsTopics: Quotes about Robert ToombsShare on:FacebookPinterestWhatsApp
Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a...#Commerce
The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive...#Robert Toombs
Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for...#Robert Toombs
Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never...#Robert Toombs
Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by...#Robert Toombs
The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign,...#Robert Toombs
Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade;...#Robert Toombs
Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States - no advantage...#Robert Toombs
