The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1871-06-23
HARKl FROM THE SOUTHERN
TOoMBS.
a Doleful Sound from Robert, of
Georgia.
He Predicts another War with the
North.

ne EIeulCtS dnOLuST "dI with LhO
North
Such is the Haunting caption Civ
en- to the recent sayings of Mr..
Toombs by N, Y. Tribune cores
pondent. To make the matter in
telligible, we give the following por-
ton of the interview:
"The Ku Klux," said the Gener-
al, sis the natural protest Of an OPP
pressed people against tyranny
This town is the Ku Klux head
quarters. | carried this county for
secession in 1861, with only Sc zen
votes against me, and now there is
not a single white Radical living in
the county. We've no use for them
here. | would sooner vote for
Greeley than for any Democrat up
on Vallandigham's platform. Gree
ley and the Republicans first got it
up-it's their patent--and | have
more respect for them than for such
scoundrels as Vallandigham, who
wants to steal their IDEAS"
"What do you look forward to in
future 7 | asked. How can you es-
cape the results of the war ~
owe will fight you again just as
soon as we can get ready" he an
swered, "and ! believe we can get
ready much sooner than most people
think"
"You cannot seriously believe
that the South will attempt another
war ~
81 certainly do, sand | believe
that | shall live to see Southern in
dependence. Many of our people
are losing the hope that they will
see Shiloh in their day, but they are
training up their children to take up
the work, There is not an honest
man in the Radical party in Geor-
gia.
"Wo don't want Northern men to
come here let them stay at home,
where they belong; this is our
country, and we want to keep it for
ourselves and our children. If peo-
pie who call themselves our conquer
ors insist on coming here against our
wishes, they need expect no well
come from us. We will have moth
ing to do with them. Why can't
you lot us alone y he went on, OK
citedIy. "If your idea of govern
ment is not a lie, stay away and let
us manage our own affairs, We
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 follow
ed, the war would not have ended
until we had killed mOre."
The Augusta Constitutionalist,
one of the original secession leaders,
rightly says: "Ihe number of OPP
ponents of secession in Wilkes may
have been exactly seven in ioGl.-
But we doubt if there are seven men
left there who really want the war
fought over again, or would vote for
il. As to the views expressed by
Gen. Toombs being the views OF
two-thirds Of the Southern people,
we would simply present the opinion
in rebuttal, that they do not repre-
sent the opinions of seven men ON an
average in each county in the South.
Our people are tired of war They
belong to the Sempronius school
now, and would frankly confess, if
asked, that their thoughts are turn
ed on peace. All their movements
in legislative halls and in conven-
lions, and in agricultural societies
oetoken peace and peaceful enter
crises. and they invite immigration.
They appoint agents and send mis-
lions and load the mails with appeals
o Northern capitalists to come
.mong us, build up manufacturing
owns and cause our waste places to
blossom as the rose.
The political destinies of the South
AVE passed out of the old war lead
,rs, and especially of the Breckin-
,idge Democrats. They can never
cad the people back into the old
war paths they trOd in the eventful
years which followed secession
They are not satisfied with the re-
suit, nor with their present situa-
ton. Perhaps many of them are as
much dissatisfied with it as Mr..
roOmbs. But they do not talk of
war as the remedy. They look to
the peaceful arena of discussion and
argument, and TO the sovereign rem
edy Of the ballot box,