Robert Toombs letters, 1855-1872.

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Robert Toombs letters, 1855-1872.

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The collection consists of two letters written by Robert Toombs. The first ALS, dated 20 Nov. 1855, while Toombs is a U.S. senator, to a judge about elections and his activities. "...Your two letters ... is the only intelligence I have had ... since I left and this is the day fixed on by Mr. Pope's resolutioin to bring on the election. I hope it took place and that you are now regularly installed as judge." He states that he was unable to stay through the election due to business engagements and an illness, "but Mr. Stephens [his close friend, Alexander Stephens, a U.S. congressman at the time] assured me he would return by Thursday ... I thought I saw a very decided indisposition to bring on the election at an early day when I left but I thought it a favourable indication that your prospects were good ... if the election has not taken place I shall come immediately. I do not think you right in any event to take the course you indicate on account of the action of the causes ..." A wealthy landowner and slaveholder in Georgia, he reports, " I have to emply two new overseers and put them in possession of my plans ...: Penned on first and third pages of lettersheet. The second letter is dated 15 Feb 1872, Washington, Georgia, to an unknown person. Toombs has just returned from Atlanta, where he met with the new governor (Smith) on the financial condition of the state and state bonding. The new administration is pledged to repaying "every dollar of the honest indebtness of the state". He discusses the recent regime of scallywag governor Bullock: "The executive, legislative and judicial departments of the [recent?] government ... by force and fraud were nothing but a band of public plunderers, embracing in their being all the officials of the state appointed by them ... including [all] the lawyers they could buy. This gang Bullock spent his tens and even hundreds of thousands of dollars in the ? ..." Toombs offered his own services to the state without compensation, and has helped form a committee to study the situation. Expects to turn to New York for financial assistance.

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