...maintain in sight of advancing civilization. Had Mr. Toombs l said, which he did not say, " that he would call the roll of his slaves at the foot of Bunker Hill," he would have been foolish, for he might have known that whenever slavery became entangled in war it...

...maintain in the sight of advancing civilization. Had Mr. Toombs said (which he did not say) "that he would call the roll of his slaves at the foot of Bunker Hill," he would have been foolish, for he might 5 have known that whenever slavery became entangled in war...

...in the sight of advancing civilization. Had Mr. Toombs said, which he did not say, " that he would call the roll of his slaves at the foot of Bunker Hill," he would have been foolish, for he might have known that whenever slavery became entangled in war it...

...agitation went on all over the North. Toombs, the Southern senator, tried sheer bombast, and said he would call the roll of his slaves at the foot of Bunker Hill monument. Timid men in the North began to cry: " Conciliate, conciliate!" But there can be warfare, and only...

...states. It was widely, although erroneously, believed that Toombs had boasted that he would live to call the roll of his slaves at the foot of Bunker Hill monument, and the Dred Scott decision was looked upon as a step in the process of making slavery national. The...

...repeat a denial which he had already made of the absurd report that he had said that he expected to call the roll of his slaves at the foot of Bunker Hill monument.* Toombs found occasion on February 27 to give further elaboration * Congressional Globe, 36th Cong.,...

...maintain in the sight of advancing civilization. Had Mr. Toombs said, which he did not say, that he would call the roll of his slaves at the foot of Bunker Hill, he would have been foolish, for he might have known that whenever slavery became entangled in war it...

...connection with a man so great as Lincoln is of course to be noted. He heard him first at Jrlillsboro at the time of the famous debate with Douglas. He...boast as that.' " * * * always to clinch an argument." * * * "Lincoln came once again to Shelbyville to make a speech after the organization of the Republican...

...boast attributed to Toombs might yet come true, "that he expected to live to see the day when he could call the roll of his slaves at the foot of Bunker Hill monument"? 1 The times were now ripe for the formation of a new political party. There was no longer any hope...

...the establishment of slavery in every state and territory, making good Toombs' boast that he would call the roll of his slaves at the foot of Bunker hill. Northern "mudsills" were talking of voting themselves farms, but they would much better vote them-,...