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]brought to our notice. We are firmly convinced that the Southern Rights Party is gaining strength daily. lMr. Toombs’s Speech on Saturday Evening.This honorable gentleman, on Saturday night, put us in mind of the Devil in a Drum, in one of bis bellowing moods. He walked to and fro, upon the capacious platform, and (retted away about an hour and a half, as if he thought the bill of mortality which his effort would make would be frightful to contemplate. His bill of mortality proved, however, to be a farce, and instead of slaying his intended victims he only amused them. He W'as evidently diseased with passion; and, it is wonderful, that a man of bis sense should forget that, under its influence, it is the easiest thing in the world to sink from the sublime into the ridiculous.I he truth is, there is but little to reply to, as to what he uttered, for it was a deluge of words with a drop or two of argument. Shouly after he commenced speaking, the moon rose in queenly beauty over a house to his right, and, in looking upon its serene and beautiful face, wc could hut think that if there really is a man upon her surface, and he couKf see Mr. Toombs, he must have been impressed with the fantastic tricks which an American Congressman can sometime play upon the earth. The honorable gentleman looked ill out of the eye1 and seemed to be wickedly inclined. He tried to be, upon editors, w hat the Steam Doctor said lie was upon fits, viz:— “ he w’as hell on them/7 There w’as this difference betw een Mr. Toombs and the Steam Doctor. The latter killed his patient, while the former left his to give him dose for dote. We were among his intended victims, and it :s our lot to physic him for it.1 he u masked battery77 has certainly made him a monomaniac on the subject of the Union.—He swore lustily that he saw things in wi :teand things in black, spectres, hobgoblins, c., in the horrid shape of disunion in every path that he trod! He said it was true, that the Southern Rights Party, generally, pretended to be in favor of the Union, but it was all a blind to cover over their treachery t the Union of General Washington. They were for disunion last faM, he said, but now they were for the Union in pretence.If there were a dozen candidates for the Convention last fall, who were in favor of disunion, we have yet to learn their names. If Mr. Toombs were to traverse the State of Georgia to find Southern Rights men, candidates for office, who are for disunion, now, and if he w’ere to stake his judgment, or veracity, upon being able o produce the names of a dozen such, he would become an object for charily and alms before concluding the search. Still he fired away incessantly from the masked battery, but after such fashion as to excite contempt for his guns.— Either his powder was wet, or his ordnance defective. His intent was not the less deadly, however, because his voices proved to be squils instead of thunders, h's loading, wads instead of)bullets.(
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Augusta Tri Weekly Constitutionalist
Augusta, Georgia, US
Wed, Aug 20, 1851
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