The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1851-12-05
Hon. Robert Toombs.

ms gentleman was recently elected U.
5. Senator. by the Legislature Of Georgia, fol
six years from the 4Ih Of March next. Oul
oi l72 votes he received l20, one of the
mustuna nirnous elections we have recorded
for long time. On the evening after his
election, be- delivered an address, in which
lie assumed the following positions:
l. That up to the year 1886 there was
no division in Georgia ON national politics
the Slute having, before that period, al
ways belonged, without division, TO the
old republican party.
Q. That flom that period two political
partirs brgan 10 divide the State on nation
alpoilcs on the issues OF a national bank,
a protective tariff, int' rnal improvements
BY thu general guvernment, and distribu-
tion ot the sales OF the public lands, and
continued 10 do so until a very late period,
when The first Of these measures became an
obsolete idea in the genrrol sanction by The
nation OF thr present mode Of keeping and
disbuising the public money, the second
put to Fest BY a general arquiescence in the
tariff OF 46, which he considered sufficient
ly protective 10 our domestic industry, Il e
third as having never afforded any well-de-
fined ground oil party action on either side,
and lhe fourth as being extinct in the mort
gage of the proceeds OF the sale of the pub
lie land for the red mplion oil the debt ari-
sing out Of the prosecution Of the Mexican
war.
3. That the old issues between parties in
Georgia having thus entirely passed away
AMI becomes extinct by the course OF events,
the necessity for The old parry organizations
had passed away with them. and tn, only
national QUESTION which should now engage
ouraltenllun is, which of the parties at the
North bad been the soundest on ihr slavery
question. and was most likely TO ingrait the
principles embraced in the platIurm OF the
Constitutional Union party oil Georgia up
on their national creed?
a. That those measures of the late Com.
promise which were specially intepded for
he, protection Of the South were vp;ed for
by 81 out oil SO northern democrats. in Con-
gress. by oDl, "a out of S0northern whigs,
by all the southern wings, except three oI
lour, aud by about half OF the southern
democrats.
5. That the northern democrats have, in
every State, gone into the recent elections
with . faithful adherence TO the COMPROMISE
Us parl Of their political creed. aud con-
demned all agitation for repeal or modifica-
tim. ~
6. That in no single instance have The
northern wings planted themselves on the
Compromise in good faith, but that con-
trolled BY the StlDurd wing of The party
they have either condemned it or insistrt
upon sgi.uting the question OF repeal Q
modification oi poriions Of it.
| z. That. although he could not undertak,
to say positively what would be the result
he felt bound in candor to say where the prin
ciples Of the Georgia platform would be like
ty TO carry us--and that was, TO act in unisol
with the national democrats.
8, II, however, he should be disappointed
in his expectation that the national demo
Gratis will ingrdlt the principles Of the Gecr
gia platform upon their Greet, (lor as to III
fwhigs he had no hope from lheln,) he woul'
appeal from both Of the old organizations |,
the nation, and endeavor to rally party lha
should carry them out--rreserve the inslitu
lions of the South, and the integrity oi III
i Union. V l 5esas2t
In the course OF his remarks, he took oc
casion 10 speak in the highest terms Of com
mendation of the democratic States OF Penn
sylyania, Michigan, Indiana, illinois, an
Iowa, as States with which the Union part
of the South would be called BY d sense of dl