The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1877-06-19
The Hon. Henry Watterson Calls the
Hon. Robert TOombs a Public
Curse.
from the Courier journal.


Gen. Robert f. Toombs made speech
the other evening, at Hot Springs, where
be was sojourning. 1t was characters.
tically rambling and extreme, being to
nobody either a pleasure or profit. From
a macs Of twaddle we take the following j:
. This South never sought any peeuniary advan-
tase from the Government of the Uulted States she
teen years. and in my own district in East
ern Georgia, and | say to you, now, that l novor
In that district was not sent there to steal Every
dollar taken from the Treasury for one particular To-
ca ty is an injustice to tho rest of the country and
can tell YOU, to the glory OF my constituents, that
in the seventeen years a my public service in Com
gress no man in Georgia asked me to doit."
Such drivel as this is an emanation of
the theory that work is debasing, and that
unless man live Oh the pro ceeds OF other
mems labor, the money he spends is vul.
gar and communicating. 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 the slaveocracy to be achicv.
ed, by secession, on the ruins of the
| Union. In the old time no one was so
bold, as no one was so brilliant, as
Toombs, in describing the glory which
awaited the Southern States as soon as
they should detach themselves from the
Northern States, and set up Confederacy
of their own. Cotton, in the character
of 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'
Utopia. Well, the tug OF war came, and
how was it? The South lost its all, But
Toomhs 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 be.
gin with, he is rich man to-day. A sell
fish egotist. with an unquenchable vanity,
| he has devoted The last ten years to such
utterances, as, by their violence. should
keep him, at the expense of his 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 outgivings, which are de-
| liberate and passionless, not, as he would
have us believe, the ebulitions of an eX-
cited sense Of wrong He was born with
n silver spoon in his mouth. His expe.
rience of life has been scooped with a
golden ladle. He made himself leader,
during wild period, by talents of the
most snowy, vigorous, and reckless kind,
such talents as have marked the career of
his prototype in current politics, Senator
Morton, of Indiana, He played for
great stakes, end lost; but he got away
with enough to make him indifferent to
the distress which he had done so much
to bring about To say that he is essen
TALLY an unwise man is to put upon him
the ascription he universally bears. Go
ing deeper into his nature, he is a cold.
pittiless man, who cares for nobody but
himself. His life has been one long pub
lie curse.