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Copyright, 1892,
BY
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THE MERSHON COMPANY PRESS,
RAHWAY, N. J.

Dedication.

TO ROBERT TOOMBS DU BOSE, WHOSE INTEREST AND AID WERE
INVALUABLE, AND WITHOUT WHOSE COÖPERATION THE
BIOGRAPHY COULD NOT HAVE BEEN PREPARED,
THIS WORK IS DEDICATED BY
THE AUTHOR.

"There are courageous and honest men enough in both sections to fight. There is no question of courage involved. The people of both sections of this Union have illustrated their courage on too many battlefields to be questioned. They have shown their fighting qualities shoulder to shoulder whenever their country has called upon them; but that they may never come in contact with each other in fratricidal war, should be the ardent wish of every true man and honest patriot."—Robert Toombs, Speech in U. S. Senate, 1856.

CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I.Family, Boyhood, Life at College, [1]
II.At the Bar, [13]
III.In the Legislature, [29]
IV.Elected to Congress, [43]
V.In the Lower House, [56]
VI.The Compromise of 1850, [67]
VII.The Georgia Platform, [83]
VIII.The Campaign of 1852, [97]
IX.Toombs in the Senate, [107]
X.The "Know-nothing" Party, [121]
XI.Toombs in Boston, [129]
XII.Buchanan's Administration, [140]
XIII."On the Stump" in Georgia, [144]
XIV.The Campaign of 1856, [155]
XV.John Brown's Raid, [169]
XVI.The Charleston Convention, [175]
XVII.Toombs as a Legislator, [186]
XVIII.Election of Lincoln, [199]
XIX.Farewell to the Senate, [205]
XX.Toombs and Secession, [209]
XXI.Toombs as Premier of the Confederacy, [222]
XXII.Brigadier-General in Army of Northern Virginia, [236]
XXIII.With the Georgia Militia, [277]
XXIV.Toombs as a Fugitive, [286]
XXV.Without a Country, [308]
XXVI.Commencing Life Anew, [315]
XXVII.Days of Reconstruction, [324]
XXVIII.His Last Public Service, [337]
XXIX.Domestic Life of Toombs, [353]
XXX.His Great Fault, [364]
XXXI.His Last Days, [369]