Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-06-13
ToOMBs WANTS ANOTHER WAR.

The Democracy hope 10 carry the next
Presidential election. They hope to do it
of course by majority of the electoral
vote. IN order to do so they must carry
every Southern State and several North
ern States. They feel certain of most of
the former, and are now laying their plans
to carry the latter. To succeed they must
persuade the people of the North that their
reasonable purposes are abandoned,
and that hereafter they will be faith
full to the Government, perpetuate
its form, and administer it in the
spirit of true patriotism. As step
towards building up public confidence in
this direction they have in Ohio and Penn
sylvania taken new departures" pro-
claimed progressive principles. The ques-
ton now to be determined is, does this
Democracy i'll Ohio and Pennsylvania
represent the coting Democracy, i. e., the
Democracy that is to elect the President
next year and control the party when in
power ~ or are the pretensions they now
make in good faith or put forward solely
for policy.
We can decide the first question by look
ing through the South and determining
how it feels on the subject. We gave
some days ago jeff. Davis views. We
give now what another shining light
in the party says, Gen. Bob ToOmbs,
of Georgia, ex-senator and eX-General.
y Tribune correspondent has just had
frank interview with him and reports it as
follows: -#
In few minutes General Toombs came in.
ana soon commenced to talk politics. ! told
him that he was understood to represent the
mos. ultra wing of the Democratic party in
Georgia, and that was DESTROYS of learning his
views upon political questions. Yes" he
said. a. | am one of the red-hot kind - W hat
e do you think of the new departure of the
Northern Democracy, as expounded by Val
landigham and the Pennsylvania Convention?
Shall you support it % Never. l would soon
er vote for Horace Greeley than for any Demo-
crat upon such platform. Greeley and the
Republicans first got it up; it's their patent,
and have more respect for them than for such
scoundrels as Nallandigham, who wants to steal
their IDEAS Mr.. Toombs spoke at some length
in this style, declaring finally that the people of
the South could never be brought to accept the
Constitutional Amendments as fnaties, and
that If the Democratic party took that ground
they would have nothing to do with that party
"What do you look forward to in the future?''
I asked; chow can you escape the results of the
war; I'VE will fight you again Just
as soon AS we can get ready he answered;
land / believe can get ready sooner than
most people think" You cannot seriously be-
l;eve that the South will attempt another war!''
II certainly do and / believe that L shall live
8 10 see Southern independence. Many of our
people are losing the hopes that they will see
Shiloh in their day, but they are training their
n children to take up the work.
| asked if he thought any considerable
number Of men in Georgia ageed with him
:, in desiring a renewal of the war, and in
still hoping for Southern independence.
b. {" 1tc0-thiTttS u oil the arhite men in this
Safe and IN all the South are of this ,rfu
of thiakiag," he replied land if YOU wifi
go into the country among the planters. Won
a will find what ] say is true. In the large
- towns the editors and business men talk
d fferently, bat they kao,p nothing of the
sentiments Of the people,
L changed the subject, and asked if he
g thought immigration desirable for the
South mo- he replied, 'we don't want
( Northern men to come here let them stay
p at home where they belong. This is our
country and we want to keep it for for
ourselves and our children. Ifpeople who
call themselves our conquerors insist on
coming here against our wishes they need
expect no welcome from us. We will have
nothing to do with then1.o
Why can't you let US alone"' he went
on excitedly. "If your idea of government
is not lie, stay away and let lis manage
our own affairs. We don't want to have
anything to do with you. We had the
satisfaction of killing more than 300 900 of
you, and if my advice had been followed