The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-09-28
Bob roomhs Accents the Situation.

ATLANTA Herald, Aug. 10, 1871
In conversation with Gen. Toombs yesterday,
this reporter asked him if there any truth in
the rumors that he was going to run for Congress
from this district.
s.Not word of it, sir, )" says the old veteran. 81
have been asked to run by great many gentlemen
in my district; but if man, woman, and child
in this district to rise up and press it upon me-
I would not take it. hate the Government of the
United States and would give my life to overthrow
it. Hence, sir, gentleman, could not accept
Office in it's service. It's question Of honor with
me. 1 hate the Government and despise its dis
ciples4 I would not sit with the men who are at
present IN Congress. If I were admitted, should
soon be expelled, for should rise at the first op-
portunity and denounce as utterly fraudulent the
Infamous amendments. This would not be tolerated
as orthodox, and would shake the dust of the
Senate from my feet again."
We stand squarely with Gen. Toombs matter
of personal sentiment and principle in which we
have right to indulge.
Here is another gem from Gen. Toombs. On
the 26th of January, 1876, he addressed the
Legislature of Georgia, by invitation, and spoke
as follows:
We got good mauy honest fellows into the Leg
slature, but will tell you how got them there.
will tell you the truth The newspapers won't tell
it to you, We got them by carrying the black vote
by intimidation and bribery, and helped to do it!
would have sco,ned the people if they had not
done it And viii buy them as long as they put
beasts to go to the ballUt-box! No man should be
given the elective fran chse who has not the nte-
gence to use it properly. The rogue should not
have ii. for Government is made to punish him !;
the fool should not have it. for Government is made
to take care of him! Now these miserable wretches,
the Yankees have injected s. 900 900 of into
the stomach of the body-politic: and the man who
says he accepts negro suffrage, accursed be he! /
will accept ything-Iswill accept Grant and EN-
pire-before will accept such a Democrats The
Door ignorant negro-talk of him governing you aud
me 1t takes the highest order of intellect to govern
the people, and these poor tches talk governing
us I! Why, they can't perpetuate their own negro
power. In the counties where they were in the
majority, they did not preserve their power and
hair Adv h0t
break up that We carried them with us by bribery
and intimidation. l advised it, and paid my money
! for it! We all know it, but won't say it. But
will say it, for fear no man, and am prepared TO
render an account to none but the Great judge be-
fore whom 1 must appear in a few years, for my
enemies have thought my services to my country
so great that they have done me the honor to ex
clude me from again serving my people. contest
that honor with our chief, Mr.. Davis. am just as
good as he is, and he is no better than I am.
demand that they shall place me beside him.
thank them for it.! 1t is very few things that ]
have to thank them for, but do thank them for
that
paper of the South. Its editor is John For
| sythe delegate to the Democratic Convention
| of 1868. In that year his paper said speaking
of the Reconstruction acts:
| We shall obey the laws until the people of the
limited States speak at the polls and the Supreme
| Court pronounces them unconstitutional. But in
| the meantime, the people Of the South will keel
their powder dry, against the hour when 1t will be
| needed TO recover Iuolf ADeEtlSS.
This paper maintains it's consistency. Sept
90 1875, discussing the question Of inse ring il
| the new constitution of Alabama provision
declaring that the right OF secession no longer
exists it goes on to argue that, from the neces
sites of the case, that right must exist that
1 Federal Government means that States wen
into it of their own accord, and necessarily cal
/ go out again whenever they so desire It say
i Alabama fought for this principle, and:
If they submit to the laws of and the star
decisas of arms, until arms shall the judg
| ment, have they not done their whole duty in tn
| premises? Are they called on to deny these opin
ions, and go back upon principles they believed t.
be vital to the liberties and happiness of the who'll
| people of the United States?
Gen. Cerro- Gcrdo Williams last year was q
candidate for Governor of Kentuekv and ietAr