Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-08-30
iENERAL ROBERT TooMBs.
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to try it over the first chance.
fter Gen. Toombs' visit to Wash
on, he was asked if he met the
ident?
Certainly" replied Toombs, Il al
call on the chief Of police when
t town, for 1 don't know when
get in trouble. Grant tried to get
to take the oath of allegiance
tinued the general, but l told him
I'd boil down hell to pint and
TX it before I'd swallow the ID
lg."
When Gen. Toombs visited LexinS-
O chair was always placed for him
the sidewalk in front of the Roane
.se, which he took and was sur
nded by every one on the street to
the general questions on current
tiers and hear him talk. During
big fire in Chicago Toombs was
upying that seat. A newcomer, af-
shaking hands with Toombs, asked,
ell, general what's the latest
vs?"
Glorious news" replied Gen.
Dmbs. Chicago is burning like
and the wind is still in our favor!"
because H. l. Kimball with Repub-
an money began rebuilding Atlanta,
spent good part of his time de-
-,hncing the town as a pest hole OF
iicalism, and did not modify his
iguage even when on visit to that
Y. But when the Kimball house
s burned Gen. Toombs was induced
go on a note to rebuild 1T and was
t with the bag to hold. This strip
/ him of a considerable part of his
alth.
Gen. Toombs would go to any
18TH to assist a man he liked, but
ey had to, toe the political line he
d chalked. He furnished Henry
ady, Bob Aston and st. Clair
1rams money to start the Atlantic
.rald, but when Grady wrote an ar
lie eulogistic of Jos. f. Brown, Gen.
,ombs made the sheriff foreclOse his
ortgage and so cleared the way for
constitution. The only bitter artl-
Grady ever penned was in denun-
ltion of Gen. Toombs on this occas-
I, which concluded with, He loans
money like prince and collects
like a Shylock."
After Lees surrender q small army
Federal troops were securing the
unity after Davis and Toombs, who
ere looked upon by the Washington
lthorities as the chief instigators of
war. My family had refugeed
ON Charleston, S. c., and my father
d traded seven negroes for a farm
Elbert county, Georgia, as tenn
,rary home. The war had ended and
Iads of Yankee cavalry were seen
every road in search for Davis and
oombs.
Late one afternoon, Mr.. James NJ.
arter, another of ToombS' old SOL
ers, rode up to our gate and asked
my father was at home. | replied
at he had gone to a reighbor's. MI.
arter then told me TO say to my
ther to be without fail at the home
Col. l.. II. o. Martin that night at
o'clock sharp: and as Mr.. Carter
uck spurs in his horse and dashed
I, he turned in his saddle and added
md tell him that it is not beyond
S cable tow"
My father reached home little
ter dark. | gave him the first part
the message he said he was tired
and had no idea of taking such long
'ide that night, but when | added
about the cable tow" he had ser
.ant saddle a fresh horse and rode
lway and he did not return home for
several days.
II was not until years after and
when | had grown TO manhood and
. d myself joined the Masonic fra
nifty that | learned the sequel of
at message. The Federal troops
re closing around Gen. ToOmbS
ZEN he slipped through their lines
d went TO the home of Col. Martin.
number of his disbanded officers
d soldiers were summoned to pro-
It and try and get him to Cuba, as
,ain was friend to the South and
&c only European country to ac-
knowledge the independence of the
southern Confederacy. Toombs had
never joined the Masons, but that
night he was slipped into rear room
IF Major John II. Jones store in FL
perton and all the degrees in the Blue
odge administered to him; and
,ombs is said to have been the apt
candidate to ever go through the
deal. And in after years he became
high Mason and pillar in the order
Gen. TOombs was then carried TO
island in the Savannah river (the
aboard railroad now crosses the up
I. end of the island) and there fed
d guarded for weeks. When an Op-
rtunity occurred, with one of his
ave soldiers named Irwin as a guide,
embarked on board Il sailing YES
and safely landed in Cuba. From
ence he went to England, landing
ere almost penniiess, but was treat
with great honOrs.
E,,en when a student attending