Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-06-13
Anunconrerled ReheI.

A man may have head resembling that of
Daniel Webster in its unusual size and in the
great height and breadth of the forehead, as is
said to be the case with Robert Toombs, and
yet be notably deficient in wisdom. The report
of Tribune correspondents interview with this
notorious Georgian ex-senator and ex-general
furnishes considerable evidence, If any were
needed, in support Of the above proposition.
Mr.. T0Ombs' fame as a senator rested principal
ly upon his prediction that he would some time
call the roll OF his slaves on Bunker Hill. As
general, his record is still more meagre; his
military services were confined, so far as we
have heard to making bombastic appeals, full
of sound and fury, to the home guard, of which
he was an eminent member, and, true to the
traditions of that valiant corps, left his state
only when it was invaded by Sherman's army.
MIR. Toombs began his talk with the correspond
ent by informing him that his town was the
headquarters of the kuklux, that he carried the
county for secession in 1851 with only seven
votes in opposition, and that there is
not now a single white radical living
in the county. He announced himself one of
the red hot kind of democrats. The new de-
parture, he said, was first got up by Greeley and
the republicans, and Vallandigham was scoun-
dred who tried to steal their ideas. He would
much sooner vote for Horace Greeley than for
any democrat on such platform. The people
of the south would never aceept the constitu-
tional amendments as tinaltles, and would leave
the democratic party if it took that ground
They will fight the United States again as soon
as they can get ready, and he believes they will
be ready sooner than most people think. He
expects to live to see southern independence:
many OF the people are not SO hopeful chat
they viii see Shiloh in their day." but are train
ing their children to take up the work. He saws
there is not an honest man in the republican
party In Georgia; that the worst kind of rascals
are purposely selected and sent down to plunder
and Cypress the southern people. Two-thirds of
al the white people of Georgia and of the south
are Of his way Of thinking, he says, on these
points; the editors and business men in the
e,'ies '4ik inherently; but they know nothing OF
the sentiments of the people.
Mr.. Ioombs also gave his opinion of tbe rom.
paTatiVe merits Of northern and southern civ.
ilization. He had Travelled over a prea, nor, a,
the world, and had seen no higher eivilizat;o,
than that of Virginia and Georgia; he tbough
the agricultural population of New England tn
poorest people he had ever seen. The higbes
type Of modern civilization was TO be found i
thinly settled country where the laborin
class was owned or controlled by the land owl
es. The state debt Of Georgia contracted sine
the war, he said, would never be paid, not
dollar OF it. Ii amused him to see the New Yor
bankers buying the bonds at eighty or nines
cents on the dollar, when they were not wort
copper, and no one in Georgia would give
dime for bushel Of them. Negro suffrage {
course he emphatically disapproyed; the n,
groes are all ignorant and thievish; he did nc
think an Intelligent qualification for the suffrau
would remedy the evil; aproperty quali6cttio
was needed for a stable government; men vii
have no property have no right 10 make Law
for property holders. As long as the white. !
belong to one party, however, there is no de
ger In the negroes voting, they will vote last