action at close of war, 281;
last meeting with Davis, 284, 285;
escape, 286-307;
becomes a Freemason, 289;
conversational powers, 305, 306, 310, 358, 359;
dread of capture, 306;
vivacity, 306;
arrival in Cuba, 307;
arrival in Paris, 308;
sells land, 308;
in exile, 309-313;
returns to America, 312, 313;
unreconstructed, 313;
return to Georgia, 315;
resumes practice of law, 316;
in reconstruction days, 315-329;
master of invective, 318-322, 326;
before the Supreme Court of Georgia, 320, 321;
opinion of Yankees, 322;
zeal, 322, 323;
addresses meeting at Atlanta, 324-326;
fondness for farming, 330, 331;
strained relations with Brown, 333-336;
a believer in the code of honor, 336;
the Constitutional convention, and the new constitution, 337-352;
pays expenses of Constitutional convention, 344, 345;
golden wedding, 356, 357;
hospitality, 357, 358;
sympathies of, 359, 360;
last appearance in court, 361, 362;
wealth, 362, 363;
his great fault, 364-368;
love of literature, 367, 368;
last days, 369-375;
attends Stephens' funeral, 371, 372;
at wife's death-bed, 372, 373;
baptized, 373;
death and burial, 375, 376;
his monument, 376
Toombs, Major Robert, 2, 3
Toombs, Mrs., friendship for A. H. Stephens, 62;
aids her husband's escape, 286, 287;
joins her husband in Paris, 309;
returns to America, 310;
character, 356, 357;
accident to, 356;
golden wedding, 356, 357;
death, 372, 373
Toombs, William, 2
Toombs oak, the, 12
Toucey, ----, leader in U. S. Senate, 107
Towns, Gov., calls State convention, 83
Tremont Temple, Boston, lecture on slavery in, 129-135
Trinity River, Toombs' lands on, 152
Troup, George M., defender of States' Rights, 30, 31;
opposition to Jackson's measures, 31;
attitude on the tariff question, 51;
opposes Toombs in campaign of 1844, 53
Troup, Capt., on Toombs' staff, 268
Tugaloo River, 290
Turncoats, Crawford's ideas of, 91
Tyler, Pres., Toombs on, 367
Union College, 13
Union Democratic-Republican party, 30
United States Bank, supported by Berrien, 39;
defense of, 48
United States Constitution, position on slavery, 132
United States judges, higher pay for, supported by Toombs, 192
United States Senate, _personnel_ in 1853, 107;
debate on popular sovereignty, 163, 164;
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