 | Samuel Wylie Crawford - 1887 - 554 psl.
...Toombs, the Secretary of State, came in, when the telegram was handed to him. Upon reading it, he said, " The firing upon that fort will inaugurate a civil war greater than any the world has yet seen; and I do not feel competent to advise you."* Any reply to the telegram was delayed until the morning... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1895 - 686 psl.
...momentous question to decide, and they gave it a long and profound consideration. Toombs at first said, " The firing upon that fort will inaugurate a civil war greater than any the world has yet seen ; and I do not feel competent to advise you." 4 Later during the council he opposed the attack. " Mr.... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1895 - 702 psl.
...momentous question to decide, and they gave it a long and profound consideration. Toombs at first said, "The firing upon that fort will inaugurate a civil war greater than any the world has yet seen ; and I do not feel competent to advise you." 4 Later during the council he opposed the attack. " Mr.... | |
 | Samuel Wylie Crawford - 1896 - 526 psl.
...Toombs, the Secretary of State, came in, when the telegram was handed to him. Upon reading it, he said, "The firing upon that fort will inaugurate a civil war greater than any the world has yet seen; and I do not feel competent to advise you."* Any reply to the telegram was delayed until the morning... | |
 | Charles Morris - 1897 - 638 psl.
...years, dying in 1889. on it. His Secretary of State, Robert Toombs, opposed this as unwise, saying, " The firing upon that fort will inaugurate a civil war greater than any the world has yet seen. ... It puts us in the wrong; it is fatal." But the orders were given ; Major Anderson, in command at... | |
 | Hélène Adeline Guerber - 1899 - 372 psl.
...one had spoken warmly in favor of taking the fort by force, the secretary of state gravely said : " The firing upon that fort will inaugurate a civil war greater than any the world has yet seen. . . . You will wantonly strike a hornet's nest which extends from mountains to ocean, and legions now... | |
 | John Fiske - 1899 - 628 psl.
...Toombs, of Georgia, thought it unwise to attack Fort Sumter. " The firing upon that fort," said Toombs, " will inaugurate a civil war greater than any the world has yet seen. . . . You will wantonly strike a hornet's nest which extends from mountains to ocean, and legions now... | |
 | Joseph Warren Keifer - 1900 - 386 psl.
...unanimity on the question. Robert Toombs, Secretary of State, is reported to have said : " The firing on that fort will inaugurate a civil war greater than any the world has yet seen ; and I do not feel competent to advise you."1 And later in the conference Toombs, in opposing the... | |
 | John McAuley Palmer - 1901 - 684 psl.
...impossible and fully justified Mr. Toombs, secretary of state of the Confederate government, in saying, 'The firing upon that fort will inaugurate a civil war greater than any the world has ever seen.' Whatever may have been hoped, believed or feared by the lovers of peace in the different... | |
 | William Henry Smith - 1903 - 476 psl.
...meeting at Montgomery he gave his counsel against an assault upon Fort Sumter. "Mr. President," said he, "at this time it is suicide, murder, and will lose...every friend at the North. You will wantonly strike a hornets' nest which extends from mountains to ocean, and legions, now quiet, will swarm out and sting... | |
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The firing on that fort will inaugurate a civil war greater than any the world has yet seen, and I do not feel competent to advise you. 
