Georgia Division - Robert Toombs Speech radio ad
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The Georgia Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans has created several radio ads. This ad is about Robert Toombs Speech.  For the video of this radio ad, click here.

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Robert Toombs

Northern and Southern states had joined together to form the voluntary Union after the War for Independence, although both realized there were many differences between North and South. But the differences grew over the next 70 years.

When the big government candidate Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860 without receiving a majority of the vote, Georgia Governor Brown called for a convention on November 13, 1860 at the state capitol in Milledgeville to consider secession.

The future Secretary of State for the Confederacy, Robert Toombs spoke there.

He had spent his political career preserving the Union, but that day Toombs spoke for withdrawal, saying:

“We need no declaration of independence, our fathers won that from Great Britain. After reviewing how the South had done everything to avoid conflict, Toombs closed with these words: “The Constitution, has been swept away and we demand the sword for our defense... I have served you for a quarter of a century and am yet ready when honor and duty call... save Georgia.”

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