The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-06-16
THE BULLETIN.
RED-HOT.
BOB TooMBs, THE1NCORRIGIBLE
Publication OHice. Bulletin Building,
Washington Avenue.

IN. Y. Tribune Washington (Ga.) letter.
Robert Toombs, ex-senator of the United
States, and ex-general in the rebel army,
OF that portion of the democratic
| of the results or the war; the levder of
those who carefully keep alive all the ami
mosities Of the struggle, and sedulously
teach bitter and rebcllious sentiments TO
their children. Gen. Tonmbs occasionally
delivers II lecture that he has prepared
upon Magma Charta, which IL In reality a
violent stump-speeech In favor of the
right Of secession, and against the consti.
tutionnl amcdments and reconstruction
laws. This is the way he comedies his lee.
| ture, as described by an Augusta paper !:
With his body bent slightly Onward, his
eye blazing, his hand raised aloft, grasp
ing a copy Of Magma Charta, ho exclaimed
| When you can tear the live thunder from
its home in the burning ether, and bind II
at the foot-stool Of tyranny, then, and not
till then, will accept the situation.
thought ii was worth making special
journey to see the man who could talk
like this six years after the end of the
war.
In few minutes General Toombs
came id, and soon commenced to talk
politics. told him he was understood 10
represent the most ultra wing of the dem
| ocratic party in Georgia, and that was
DESTROYS Of learning his views upon polit-
zeal questions.
Eyes he said, ~ am one Of the red
hot kind
"Wha; do you think of the new depart
urc Of the northern democracy, rs ex-
pounded by Nalandinghain and the Penn
sylvania convention Shall you support
it2'
Never. i would sooner vote for Hor-
ace Greeley than for any democrat upon
such platform. Greeley and the re.
publicans put it up; it's their patent, and
/ have more respect for them than for
such scoundrels as Nalandingham, who
want to steal their ideas"
M. Toombs spoke at some length IN
this style. declaring finally that the l,co-
pie of the south could never be brought
10 accept the constitutional amendments
as fnalities, and that il the democratic
party took that ground they would have
nothing TO do with that party. psi.
"What do you look forward to in the
futureP l asked show can you escape
the results of the war ~
I'VE will fight you again just as soon
as we can get ready he answered; "and
/ believe we can get ready much sooner
than most people think"
"You cannot seriously believe that the
south will attempt another war?p
II certainly do, and l believe that /
shall live to see southern independence.
Many Of our people are losing the hope
that they will see Shiloh in their day,
but they are training their children up to
take the work.
l asked il 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-.hirds of 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 find what l say is trae. In the large
towns the editors and business men talk
differently, but they nothing Of the senti-
ments of the people
Later in the conversation Gen. Toombs
spoke of the civilization of the south as
compared with that of the north and of
Europe. He had Travelled, he said, over
much of the world and had seen no higher
civilization than that of Virginia and
Georgia. The civilization of the north
was far below it. He thought the agri-
cultural population of New England the
poorest class Of people he had ever seen.
replied that the agricultural people Of
Georgia and South Carolina were the
poorest people I had ever seen, and there
upon discussion arose as TO what consti-
tuted high degree of civilization, the
general declaring that it did not consist in
packing people together as thick as hogs
in pen, which, hs said, was the northern
idea. He thought thinly-settled country
where people had room enough and did
not interfere with each other, and where
the laboring class was owned or controlled
by the landholders, was the highest type
Of modern civilization.
changed the subject and asked il he
thought immigration desirable for the
south.
mo-" he replied, tive don't want north
ern men to come here ; let them stay at
home where they belong. This is our
country, and We want to keep it for our
selves and our children. Ifpeople who call
themselves our conquerors insist on COM
ing here against our wishes they need eX
no welcome from US. We will have moth
ing to do with them
Gen. Toombs spoke with great bitter
ness Of the reconstruction acts and consti-
tutional amendments. The party that
passed them were liars, he said, for they
pretended 10 believe in self-government,
and at the same time would not give the
| south any liberty to regulate her own af-
fairs, but ruled her first by military Of
ficers and then by horde of Northern
thioves, sent down here to hold the offices
and tyrannize over the people. "Why
cant you let us aloneF he went on ex.
citedly, "If your idea Of government is
not u lie, stay away and let us manage our
own affairs. We don't want to have any,
thing to do with you. We had the salts
faction 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.h Once upon the subject CT
the war, he went on to argue the right of
secession, to denounco tho union army a
horde Of merccnaries, marauders and
thieves. 1t was clear that the war had
taught him no lesson, and that his feelings
were as bitter as they were when the con-
test was ut its hight. 7.4 ts.,aa-.
AS regards negro suffrage, that he
tnought an unmixed evil A great lump
oIlgnorance and vice had been made part
OF the governing class. He said vice be-
cause the negroes were all thieves. They
were ike animals and would steal any,
thing they saw they wanted as natural1v
as hog would break into a potato field
or n dog would seize piece of meat. HI
did not think an intelligent Qualification
for eufrraUo won1d rap,oS, =, ~