The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-11-27
A VOICE FROM THE TOOMBS.
from the Chicago Tribune.l

[Fro1n the Chicago Tribunel
One of the Chicago evening news
papers dispatched to prominent men
throughout the country, and offered
them an opportunity to express through
it's columns appropriate congratulations
upon Gen. Grants welcome to Chicago
Among the replies received was the fol
lowing from Toombs, of Georgia:
Your telegram received. I decline to answer,
except to say: Present my personal coDgratu-
lations to Gen. Grant on his safe arrival to his
country. He fought for has country honorably
and won. l fought for mine and lost. am
ready to try it over again Death to the Union.
r. TooMBs.
Toombs is representative of large
class in the South. No one who has
had an opportunity to observe the
Southern people in their own homes
and to listen to the unembarrassed ex-
preston OF their real sentiments, will
question the statement. He is the idol
of large constituency in Georgia, and
admired throughout the extreme South.
He was prominent before the war, and
even more SO during the war. He was
a member of the United States Senate
ct the time his State seeded, and at
once assumed an influential part in the
organization and maintenance of the
rebellion. He was a Deputy in the
rebel Professionally Congress, Pro
vlsional Secretary of State in
the Confederacy, then appointed
Brigadier General in the rebel army,
and ,afterward elected Senator in the
rebel Congress. During the progress
of the war, in 1868, when the possibil-
ity of reincorporation and reconstruc-
ton of the rebel States was being dis
cussed, Toombs wrote letter for pub
hcation, in which he said: ST can con-
ceive OF no extremity to which my
country could be reduced in which
would for q single moment entertain any
proposition for any union with the North
on any terms whatever" Now, after
fourteen years of peace, and a magma
nimity on the part of the North which
has extended to the unparalleled extent
of univeral amnesty, there is no change
in Toombs' sentiments, and he improves
the occasion of Gen. Grants return to
declare in the most unmist taxable
fashion that he regards tie Union as a
foreign nation, and is ready to take up
arms against it at the very first oppor-
tunity that offers.
There has been an effort on the part
OF the Northern Demo cratic press to
create the impression that the Okolona
States, and few other outspoken ex
ponents of the Southern Bourbon
sentiment, misrepresent the people of
their section, and it has even been
intimated that some of those virulent
journals are in the pay of the Radical
party" No such charge, we think, will
be brought against Bob Toombs, OF
Georgia. Here is representative man,
much admired throughout the entire
South, who announces over his own
signature his readiness and desire to
renew the war of the Rebellion, who
treats the Union as a foreign and
hostile nation, and who has all the
savage and unrelenting hatred OF the
Nor which the Okolona States pours
out from week to v eeR. Ioombs is
not an exception among the Bourbons,
save that he has the courage to say to
the North just what he believes and
feels. Others with the same convictions
may conceal them or seek to
give expression to them IN some
more sneaking fashion; but the init
mate interchange Of opinion between
Southerners reveals in hundreds of
cases every day the same irreconcllable
animositY to the Union and Northern
people which Toombs voices SO openly.
The name of Grant is especially irritat-
ing to them because he was the most
successful General in defeating the
rebel armies, and the mention of that
name brings out all the ugly, smolder-
ing rancor they cherish. Even Wade
Hampton, who is representative Con-
Seryatiye among the Sontherners. cO1dly