Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-06-29
ToomBs AND STEPHENS.

Democracy are down on Robert Toombs
and Alexander H. Stephens because they
will not consent to be reconstructed In
accordance with the plan proposed by a
Republican Congress and now ratified by
the Vallandigham faction. They denounce
them as old fogies and anti-deluvian fossils.
which is true, and declare that they have
no influence at the South, which is not
true by any means. These men,, foolish
and wayward as they are, will lead the
rank and file of the Democratic party
South in the next presidential campaign.
Any observing man who will take pains
to read the following account of an inter-
view between a Correspondent of the New
York Tribune and Robert Toombs will
perceive at aglance that he is just the man
to take with the masses South, a part Of
whose education it has been to hate North
ern men, ami to oppose Northern ideas.
The Tribune Correspondent says:
I told him that he was understood to
represent the most ultra wing of the
Democr ratio party in Georgia, and that l
was DESTROYS of learning his views upon.
political questions. "Yes," he said, q
am one of the red-hot kind" What do
you think of the new departure of the
Northern Democracy, as e~xpounded by
Vallandigham' and the Pennsylvania Con-
vention? Shall you support it," never.
/ would sooner vote for Horace Greeley
than for any Democrat upon such a plat
form. Greeley and the Republicans first
got it MP it's their patent, and L have
more respect for them than for such
~scoundrels, as Vallandigham, who want to
steal their IDEAS" Mr.. Toombs spoke at
some lenghth in this style, declaring finally
that the people of the South could never
be brought to accept the constitutional
amendments as 6nalities, and that if the
Democratic party took that ground thoy
would have nothing to do with that party.
What do you look forward to in the
future?" 1 asked; show can you escape
the results of the WARP eve will fight
you again just as soon as we can get ready"
he answered "and l believe we can get
ready much sooner than most people think"
You cannot seriously believe that the
South will attempt another WARP "l
certainly do, and l believe that l shall
live to see Southern independence"
The correspondent then asked him if he
thought any considerable number of men
in Georgia agreed with him in desiring a
renewal of the war, and in still hoping for
Southern independence. "Two-tbirds of
all the white men in this State and in all
the South are of this way of thinking"
he replied, "and if you will go into the
country among the planters, you will lind
what 1 say is true. IH the large towns
the editors and business men talk diferen-
tly, but they know nothing of the senti-
ments of the people,"
Ofthe Northern people, General Toombs
said w e don't want to have anything
to do with you. We had the satisfaction
of killing more than 100000 of you, and
if my advice had been followed the war
would not have ended until we had killed
more" Once upon the subject of the war,
he went on to argue the right of secession,
to denounce the North and to call the
Union army a horde of mercenaries, mara
uders and thieves-which must be cheer
full reading to the war Democrats" who
are struggling so calamity for the fehabili-
tation of the South.
When the ELUSIVE Bob was pumped as
to his notions of Georgia finances, he laughed
at the idea that the bonds issued by the
Bullock administration would not be re-
pudiated. 1t amused him to see the Wall
Street bankers buying them at 80 or 80
cents on the dollar, when they were not
worth a copper. Not a man in Georgia
would give a dime for a bushel of them.
He hoped Bullock would forge a lot of
them, and give the New York Yankees all
they would take at any price. 1t was a
way of foraging on the enemy that he liked
to see. Not a dollar of the debt c%ontrac-
ted since the war would ever be paid.
Finally, as to the political status of the
coiored element, he said t: n.s
The negroes, now that they are satisfied
there Is no danger of being reenslaved, will
vote Just as their employers tell them.
They can't afford to do otherwise. They
are attached to their old homes, and have
no money with which TO move and lind
new ones, and they will not risk being dis
charged by voting against the planters
who hire them.
There may be more frankness than dis
erection in this style Bob has of expressing
himself, but leaving out his abominable
gasconade there is also more truth than
poetry in it.