Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for the injury of a single member of the Confederacy.
Robert Toombs
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Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade, are both deaf and blind to the history of the last sixty years.
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Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war.
- Robert Toombs