Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-06-17
WATTERSON DENOUNCEs TOOMBS.

| The Louisville Courier Journal opens its
batteries upon Robert Toornbs after the fol
lowing fashion;
Gen. Robert Toombs made q speech the
| other evening at Hot Springs, whore he is
soiourning. 1t was Enthusiastically rambling
and extreme, being To nobody either a
pleasure or 4 profit. From mass Of tTaddle
We take the following:
The South sought any pecniary advantage from
the Government Of the United States she ought seek
none WAS i'll Congress seventeen years and in my
own district m eastern Georgia and say to you now that
never got dollar out Of the Treasury for one single spot
III that district was not sent there to steal Every dol
lar taken from the Treasury for particular locality
an injustice 10 the rest OF the country and can tell
10 the glory OF my constituents, that the
OF my public service in Congress in Georgia
asked me 10 do it.
Such drivel as this is an emanation of the
theory that work is debasing, and that, unless
man live on the proceeds of other mems
labor, the money he spends is vulgar and con
terminating. 1t is proper, however, that it
should come from the lips of one who, more
than any of the leaders of the past, lured the
South into the notion Of slaveOcracy to be
achieved by secession upon the ruins of the
Union. In the old time no one was so bold,
as no one was so brilliant, as ToOmbs in des-
cribing the glory which awaited the Southern
States as soon as they should detach them
selves from the Northern States, and set up
a COnfederacy Of their own. Cotton, in the
character OF a king, was to rule the world.
The black population was to do all the work.
Once out Of the Union the white man would
have nothing to do but sit on his veranda
and suck iced drinks. That was Toombs's
Utopia Well, the tug of war came, and how
was it! The South lost its all But Toombs
was shrewd enough to save his portion He
came out with both his life and fortune He
has never known day of want or sorrow A
rich man to begin with, he is rich man to-
day. A selfish egotist with an unquenchable
vanity, he has devoted the last ten years to
such differences as, by their violence, should
keep him, at the expense of the country and
his people, before the public. There has
been no time since the war when he could be /,
elected to an Office in Georgia. He has had (
nothing to lose, therefore, by his sensational |
which are deliberate and passion |
ess, not, as he would have us believe, the |
ebullitions of an excited sense of wrong. He |
vas born with silver spoon in his mouth.
His experience in life has been scoOped with a
GOLDEN ladle. He made himself a leader,
Turing a wild PERIOD by talents of the most
howy, vigorous, and reckless kind, such
alents as have marked the career of his
prototype in current politics, Senator Morton
If Indiana. He played for great stakes and
ost; but he got away with enough to make
lim Indifferent to the distress he had done
0 much to bring about. To say that he is
ssentially an unwise man is to put upon him
he ascription he usually bears. Going deeper
nto his character, he is cold, pitiless man,
Tho cares for nobody but himself His life
as been one long public curse.
Twenty-Five dollars reward having been of
cred, per head for the Winnemucca jail