Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore … - Robert Toombs

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It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.

Robert Toombs

Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Government the sole management of our relations with foreign governments.

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The firing on that fort will inaugurate a civil war greater than any the world has yet seen…you will lose us every friend at the North. You will wantonly strike a hornet's nest which extends from mountains to ocean. Legions now quiet will swarm out and sting us to death. It is unnecessary. It puts us in the wrong. It is fatal.

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Liberty, in its last analysis, is but the sweat of the poor and the blood of the brave.

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Mr. President at this time it is suicide, murder, and will lose us every friend at the North. You will wantonly strike a hornet's nest which extends from mountain to ocean, and legions now quiet will swarm out and sting us to death.

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The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.

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They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to none.

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