Robert Toombs
Published: 2018-10-12
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Excerpt from Speech of Hon. Robt. Toombs, of Georgia, on Property in Territories: Delivered in the Senate of the United States, May 21, 1860 Sir, if you will look through your State and Federal constitutions everywhere, you will find written in letters of light the recognition of this principle. The whole complex ma chinery was built up to secure protection to the citizen. For what have you Governors and judges and legislators and sheriffs in States? For what does the Constitution of the United States provide executive, legislative, and judicial departments; for what does it grant power to lay and collect taxes. Duties and imposts; to define and punish piracies and other offences on the high seas and offences against the law of nations; to declare war; to raise and support armies; to provide for calling forth the militia; to execute the laws of the Union? For what does it enjoin the high duty on this Federal Government to protect each State against invasion from without and domestic violence? Sir, there is 'but one answer - protection, protection. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
