Watson's Jeffersonian magazine [serial] . bs, while a student at the University of Vir-ginia, rode all the way to Charlotteto hear John Kandolph make one ofhis last political speeches, indicates apassion which he had for politics andpublic life. He was hardly well onhis feet as a lawyer before he ran forthe Legislature, being elected succes-sively in 1839, 1840, 1842 and Chairman of the Judiciary Com-mittee and as Chairman of the Bank-ing Committee he rendered extremelyimportant services. The State wasflooded with the notes of State bankswhich were circulating at about 40cents on the d
Watson's Jeffersonian magazine [serial] . bs, while a student at the University of Vir-ginia, rode all the way to Charlotteto hear John Kandolph make one ofhis last political speeches, indicates apassion which he had for politics andpublic life. He was hardly well onhis feet as a lawyer before he ran forthe Legislature, being elected succes-sively in 1839, 1840, 1842 and Chairman of the Judiciary Com-mittee and as Chairman of the Bank-ing Committee he rendered extremelyimportant services. The State wasflooded with the notes of State bankswhich were circulating at about 40cents on the dollar. Toombs com-pelled the banks to provide a fundto redeem their bills, and thus theywere at once brought to par. In 1840as Chairman of the Committee of In-ternal Improvements, he gave hispowerful aid towards the completionof the Western and Atlantic notable attempt of his, which un-fortunately failed, was a bill to abol-ish suretyship in Georgia. If theworld had the statistics showing thenumbers of men, women, and children. RESIDENCE OP GENERAL TOOMBS, WASHINGTON, GA. ROBERT TOOMBS 689 who are reduced to poverty and ruinby the weakness of individuals whobecome stcuritics for others, the goodcommon sense of Toombs would beapparent to everybody. In 18-14 Toombs was elected to Con-gress as a Whig. In October of thatyear he had a memorable debate withGeorge McDuffie in the city of Au-gusta. The political alliances ofToombs compelled him to defend theHenry Clay tariff. McDuffie, ofcourse, assailed it. In the course ofhis speech, Mr. McDuffie was illus-trating the effect of the tariff on va-rious commodities used by the South-ern people. One of these was broad-cloth. Mr. McDuffie himself worebroadcloth, and it seems that his car-riage driver was also garbed in a liv-ery of that material, McDuffie beingvery proud of his fine horses and thenoble appearance of his equipages. Itseems incredible that Toombs couldhave turned the tide against JMcDuffiein a debate on a questio
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