| Show TOOMBS RAVING A GOOD HATER hauer GENERAL robert toombs who lately quarrel quarreled led an and aud d then shook hands with alex aiex stephens has something very biting to urge concerning the federal government he Is represented as saying according to tho the atlanta Gs ga herald herad PI 1 I have been ask asked aswed md to run by a great many gentlemen in my nay district but if every man Woman and child in this district were wele toie tole to rise up and press it upon me I 1 would not take it I 1 hate bate the government of the united states and would give my life to overthrow it hence sir as a gentleman I 1 could not accept an office in its service iee lee I 1 would not sll sil with the men who are at present in congress if I 1 was admitted I 1 should soon be expelled for I 1 should rise at the first opportunity and denounce as utterly fraudulent the infamous s constitutional tut ional amendments th this would not be colem tolerated ted as orthodox and I 1 would shake the dirt of the senate from my feet again my chapter of ilfe life at wags washington hington is closed clowd forever I 1 dont desire to add anything to it nor to blot one vote or one word from it the government of the united states in theory is perhaps the best beat in the world but in practice it ic is otherwise being often badly babiy administered in many respects given an upright administration of the united states government anti and of the governments of the various divisions of the federation and the people or of the united states would be the most orderly most free as to personal civil and rel rei religious I 1 liberty most comfortable most prosperous and most happy people on the face of the earth As it ib is in some respects and in some places the united states is below the average of the civilized world |
