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Men who arv most Mutant in advo eaey of involving their country in war, when the- hour of da?*ger ifrttvtn*, are invariably found holding some bomb* fuouf position rttul Iiiim- also <lake.? eni'e keep. their nun Sous outside the danger /.one, ami r?N|U.l?v men who lntd |io hufnd whatever in provoking hostilities to do tin; lighting. I Cut there art* exceptions to all rules and (Jen. Kobert Toombs, of Georgia, was an exception to ^t 1*?? above-named class of skulkers. l*ing before even South Ouolina seceded he was a ram pant secessionist, and whjje in con gress nothing delighted him more than /to defy and enrage the members from New iCnglumt. They never for* gave Toombs for declaring that lie in tended some j,lay to 'stand on the sum mit of Hunker Hill monument and oall the roll of his slaves; and after live surrender he was haled -by .tin- North next tn .Jefferson Davis, and great ef forts were made t < ? rupture him. And the father of Mr. I">avis a/ul Hob Toombs are of the same county, Wiilkes. 'This is one of the most in teresting spots in Georgia .or tan? south aud rich in historic interest. In this county "was fought the battle of Kettle Greek and which turned the tide in favor of the struggling colonists. Here the wagon train, following Mr. Davis !in<l carrying tin? gold and silver be longing to the ? Confederacy and the UiChmoud banks, while ciaattfped at night, near tin.- town of Dauburg. -was raided ami looted ;by disbanded Con federate soldiers as the Federal troops were in close pursuit^ ami would have captured it. And in Washington, the county town of Wilkes, .JelYcrson Davis and his cabinet held ?'their last . kneel ing, the southern Confederacy was dis banded and .Mr. Davis, with his family and a few .tried and true friends, Jmv gau his journey to the seaboard, to be captured while encamped at night in a i|)lne forest near lrwinton, (ia. So it was almost within a sMJne's throw of .the 'home of Toombs, whose over powering el on nonce did so much to bring on the ^var, that the sun of our Lost Cause set and that stainless ban ner, the ?$tors and .Bars, sanctified with the blood of .the chivalry of our South land,' was furled forever. Gen. Ben Heard, who owned that historic house (since demolished) ami wa.s present at that last meeting, showed me this room and had marked the spot where Mr. Davis clutir stood. It was a handsome, old style, three sitory brick , building, and that last sad meeting was held on the upper lloor. I have also visited the scene of Mr. Davis' capture and noted the bullet .searred pines. These si*?ts to me seemed hallowed ground. There i< not one word of truth in the published story that Mr. Davis had on a woman's dress when captured. He had retired and had jlonned his night oho as had always been his custom. But 1 cun wandering from in.v sub ject. Win;]) war was declared Hoi) Toombs wns fimont! the first to enlist and fought valiantly until tin- surren- | dor of l/ee at Appomattox. 9 I did not know (Jen. Toombs person allv until lie .was in the decline of life. % * 7 but he was then <i remarkably hand some man. and would be singled out in any assembly. We lived in adjoin ing counties, and <Jeii Toombs being an eminent lawyer attended court twi<e every year, besides being a , fre quent visrior in my town t ? f Lexing ton. hi his younger .lays ^Toombs is valid to have been one 'of t'he handsomest men of Ji i.-s day. with erect and inipos iug stature. To T,oefand his army as a cavalry commander Toombs was what l'rince Huiwrt was i<> ('hirles I and Murat to Bonoparte nndaunted con rime ?*oiiri?ined with <ki.-h and a most picturesque bearing. lie was one of the i i i < ?- 1 eloquent and convincing sj*\*ikers hi* Mn te ever produced, and in jdefense of a cause lie believed to bo rlgbtiand facing an an tagonist his , words were cl^rged with vitriol and fairly J?1 ? -*t the jnvrty assailed. The (Severest a r rft ignment of a .public ,inaii w as at what is known a_s the "Brush Arbor ,Meeting" in At Icmta where Twimlns denounced (iov. Jose^i 10. Brown, wbo had joined the Republican party and was rewarded with high office. He closed his de nunciation with tile word*. "He rots o~s lie rises and he rises (as he rotis." <?en. Tooml*< was Intensely South ?mm? and his devotion to bis country a ud Irs cause amoiiitted almost to fa naticism. UN .spirit was unyielding, uncompromising and unconquerable. Hhd Toomflw tbe power be would bave continued tbe war .so long as a man ww* left to fj*i U a trigger And he would have died in tbe last ditch with thom. lie refused to take the oath of alle gifliKV and (lie<l fit* be hud lived an imr??<>on struct fed rebH. He refined to acrrpt fl pardon n^irn tendered by I*TA?ldent Grant1 who wan at West Point witti Bc*? Toombs ^and Wa* bU friend and admirer. He told Grant br hrt nuthlf to tt pfcrdooed tor ?uud wan ready to try it over tl?o lli*t ehanee. After Toomt* visit t?? Wash* lugton, ho was asked if he met the president? ?'tV.riululy," replied Toomb?,"l ah ways rail on the dhlof of police (wiheji I lilt a town, for I {loh'jt ,kuow whoa I I'll get in trouble, Grant 'tried to get ine to take oath of allegiance." con tinued the general, "hut 1 told him ? 1 % that I'd boil down JUeU to a pint and drink it before I'd swallow the d ? d tiling."' y When (Jen. Toombs visited Ix'xing ion 4t chair was always phaced lor him <011 .the sidewalk in Croat of the Uya'tte 'I Ionise i which ,be t<u>k and ,was sur "rounded by every ,one on the street to ?ask (the general question* on current matters and hear him talk. i>urin.g ?the hig fire in Ctiicngo Toombs \\<is occupying that seat. A newcomer, af ter , shaking lunula w it'll Toombs, -asked ??'We'll, general, what's the hitost news?" "(jHoi'Iohh ih-ws .!" replied General Toombs. "Ohh'a go .Js burning like hell mid (lie wind is still in our favor!" Ile^auNo N. 1. Kliullwili with Kopub liokin money hetfan, rebuilding Atlanta^ he spew t a good part of 'his time de nouncing 'Hie town *ts a peso hole of radicalism, and did not modify his language even wlien on a visit to that city, r.ut when .the Kimball house was burned Gen. Tooiubs was Jmluced to go oji a n<ote do .nihulld it and w.as left with ,the bag id hold. This st rilpiKJd him til a comsiderHble part of his weal I'll. (Jen. Toouihs would go. to any length to assist a iimi'rr he liked. .but tliey had 1 1 > toe Mir political line he had chalk ed. He furnished Henry Grady, Hob Alsk'ii and St. Clair Abrams money lo suir.t tin* Atlanta Herald, but .when (Jrady wrote tin article eulogistic of Jos. K. Brown, Gen. Toombs made (the sheriff foreclose- his mortgtage I ami so cleared flie way for tho Constitution. The only hitter article Orudy over janmed wiw in denunciation of Qou. Toombs uu this occasion. wtoloh con cluded with, "lie loans his money like a (prince ami collets it like ti Shyloek," After l?eo'sf ?u)rrendor a small arm# of Federal troops were neouriug the country u fter Davis ami Tooinl?s*. \\ho were looked upon l?y the Washington authorities as tin' chief Instigators of the war, My ,fa inily had refugeed from Charleston, S. C, and my fa Hi of had traded seven negroes for a farm lu 10 liter i county, tieorgia, ay a ,tem- i porary home. The war had ended and squads of Yankee tiivalry wero seen on ovorj? road In^oia'roh for l>a\-is and Toombs. Late one uftem??on, ^Mr, Jitini^ M. Carter, another of Toombs' old sol diers. v.h letu|? ,to our gate and asked If my fathelr was at home. 1 replied that he hnd gone tp <n neighbor's, Mr; 0? r tor I'hen told me 4to say U> my fa ther to tie without fail at xthe home of Col. I,. 11. O. Martin tiliat night at 12 oYhx-k siharp; and as Mr. Carter; *tuck syu'rs in his horse ami dashed <?IY. he turnod in bis saddle and add J ??d. "Ami toll him tltat it is not be yond 'his fable toNv." . . . My father roached home . a little af ter dark. J save him tin- llrilt part till' m^i^e he said ho was .tired hud had no idea of taking suoli a xlQUg ride that night, but when 'I added about the ,"'*ii?lo tow" bo bail a servant sad dle a fresh horse and rode away and tie .did tioi rot inn home for several days. It wa> ibot .until yunrs after and when I had grown to manhood and bad myself .joined the Masonic fra ternity that I learned the sequel of thai.t message. The Federal troops were closing around <ion. Toombs when lie slipped through their lines ami worn to the homo of Col. Martin. A number ?>f his disbanded otlieers and soldiers were summoned to iproteet. and try and yet hlm,to Cuba, as ttuuln was % friend to tJie South ami the only I Muropean country to acknowledge the independence of tlic Southern Confed orucy. Tooinhw hud never joined tb.e Mu>ons. l?ut that night .he was flipped into a rear room of Major John II .1 onus's store In Flhertou and all tho degrees lu tho lUuo lodge administer i'tl io him ; mill Tooiuhs is su Id to have , Ut'i.'u the upte&t canddutc to ever go through ihe Ordeal. And i n after* \vai-v he htrauu' a high Mason and a pillar In the order, <?en ToOmhj> was then e?aVrled. t < ? an j Island lit tin* 'Savannah river (the Sea l>Om'd railroad now ci?tv?eg the" upper end of t.lds island > ftnd there fedortil troops guarded for weeks, "When an opportunity otvurred, with one of his hrave soldiers named irvin as a guide, he eiulutrked on l>oard a sailing ves sel and safely landed in t"uha. From thence he vveui to Huglaud. landing there almost penniless hut was front ed with great honors, lOven when a student attending Franklin eollegl* at Alliens did <?en. Kobert Toomhs display the uueouquer a l?le spirit thai oharvaetorixed his en lire life. It is said that one night w'lu'ii- young Toombs and other stu dents were engaged in a uuxoirse in a i'4??in in the dormitory, the meeting was invaded .by several <>f the faeull.v. The hoy-s escaped - through windows and other millets exeopt 'roontlw, who was loo drunk 10 gel a way. Looking [ at the Invaders, he said. "The wioked llee when no man pursuctti, Init tlie rjtfhtoous arc buhl us a lion." liefore graduating Toombs, for ?outo breach of discipline, wtis denied tbe privilege of .delivering his nddnVis, but while the couuneiieeuieut exercises \\eye in progress ho mounlod a chair heheaib u Ur'ge tmk in J'roht of flu* Kali ;? Hi I h,\ 'his cloqiitMUr drew f h t? OH tliv uudiuiuxv from the ?'ha^H>l, Thai lift- was ?>ycr after kuowil <as the ?"('ooi.nb.s . Oak.'* Nome yea rs ago il <1.ied but the reiiiinuil of its trunk is ?4i.Ul preserved as u relie by the Insti tnijon, Toombs was refused a diploma. hut years alter when ho,tttta\nod . fanm and distinction, the u.id \ ersft.x scut hint a diploma, which Toondv* returned with a note stating that wlien (*he doeumeul would Inivo bono to* I and helped hint I in his start in life it wa$ refused him.* lml now that his acceptance would honor, the college ho would not accept i r . 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