The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-11-28
PUBLIC OPINION.
TooMBs' MESSAGE TO GRANT.
His Cry of "Death.to the Union Kicked

dispatch to the Chicago Daily News. Whether
he did or did not say q certain thing ls not lm.
portant, as every one knows him to be an un-
hung unrepentant rebel, and as the South is
full OF thousands who believe as he does.
They believe in Death to the Union" and
when Toombs teegraphed that sentiment he
only uttered what they think.-Tbe Cleveland
(O.) Leader
The position OF Bob Toombs trying to cleo
trify slavery into motion to initiate the lungs OF
corpse, suggests the idea OF small dog bark
ing at train TO attract the observation Of
passengers. Such men should be conspicuous
for their obsourlty, or If they insist on playing
the part of merry Andrew should do SO un
der the distinguishing red cap.-Galveston
(Tex.) News.
Mr.. Stones telegram seems to have reached
Toonbs just at the wrong time. Bob was in
that condition known in the rural Districts as
''fghtin' drunk" and declares his intention to
destroy the Union. We insist that Harris, OF
the Atlanta Constitution, seize Mr.. Toombs by
the gable OF his trousers. Some OF the rest OF
US will hold the Union, and bloodshed can
Tribune.
The great moral newspapers that let tee-
graph clerks and printers run" them at night,
scatter abroad confusion and f.'sehood IN this
representing Toombs as msdman, with never
word to correct the abuse. These papers
will 60 North and then they will be quoted as
Southern papers indorsing the garbled dispatch
by printing it without comment.-San Antonio
(Tex.) Herald.
Probably not over one-third of the Southern
Democrats would go as far as Toombs in being
willing to try 1t over again" Perhaps not
half would agree with Toombs in his sentiment
OF death to the Union" They prefer to rule
the Union; and, now that slavery is gone,
they find it, as business matter, better to stay
in the Union, even il they do hate it, than to
be at the vast expense OF taking the South out
OF the Union, even il it could be dons.-De-
troit Post and Tribune
As a local politician, Toombs is quite formid-
able, but as a man of war, he is about as harm
less rs Alexander Ii. Stephens. Still, if he in
sists On mortal combat, be should be gratitied,
and we suggest that Private Dalzell would be
an eminently proper person to engage the
enemy. Let Toombs and Dalzell fight il out
between themselves, funeral expenses TO be
paid by the survivor.-Baltimore (Md.) Amerl-
can.
Bob Toombs is blatant fool rabid blather-
skite, frothy, foul-mouthed fellow desiring an
Infamous notcriety, and caring not how he OBJ
tains 1t. Treason falls from bis lips like the
serpents and toads from the evil fairies in the
story-books. Venomous hate to the Union is
his only possesson.-Knoxyille (Tenn.) Chron-
icle
A man who to-day gives utterance to the
sentiment, death to the Uniop," is an object
OF contempt and pity. Such sentiment proves
It's possessor 10 be an apostle OF hatred and
blind zealot, who can neither understand nor
acquiesce in the inexorable logic of accom-
plished facts.-Grand Rapids (Mcb } Daily
Times.
II Gen. Bob Toombs, OF Georgia, were rot
harmless maniac, it would be the duty OF the
State to con6ne HIM in lunatlc asylum but
as his buster hurts nobody, not even himself,
il is just as we'll that he should be permitted to
go on raving and rantng for the few brief
years that nature, in Der generosity to fools
and idiots, may allow him to remain on earth
Salt Lake (Utah) Herald.
II Bob Toombs" and Ben Hill" are left to
themselves to utter their rate babblings and
poison the peace of the country the North will
indeed become "solId.r Why don't the better
and controlling elements OF the South boldly
and unitedly stamp out or sit down hard on
such insane but irritating mutterngs Prov
dence (R. I.) Press.
He will find that the great mass OF his fellow
citizens are still devoted to American liberty
and free government aud will be long after
we will not say his DEATH for dead he is al
ready-but long after he has been buried
Richmond (Va.) State.
Toombs's dispatch Is the voice OF a SOLITARY
nightmare. II the Southern people could have
it as free gilt they would not at this day ac-
cept separate Nationality dividing continent
by mere statutory boundaries (Gs)
Telegraph.
The people of Georgia will not crafty his
political aspirations, which were to return him
to the United States Senate, aud hence he has
assumed the most violent role OF revolution.
SO his dispatch is mere brutum fulmen. /. e..
the mere opinion of Robert Toombs himself
Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin.
That Toombs does not express the senti-
ments OF the citizens OF Georgia. is evidenced
by the fact that they have not elected him to
Office since the war, which they very likely
would have done had his vlews been endorsed
by them.-Mancheste Qowa) Democrat.
Robert is evidently determined to make as
conspicuous q dsmphool OF himself as the
Okolona States man, and he has made q very
good beginning. Northwestern Mining Jour-
nal.
Toombs and his kind cannot upset the I'm
ion, as they ought to know by this time. but
tho braying OF asses, though not dangerous, is
not harmonious sound.-Phladelphi Chron-
Iicle- Herald.
Toombs is now harmless. We can admire his
courage and candor in perfect safety. While