...hatic and fervent style of oratory. Toombs was likewise modest. He, too, said the chronicler, sought to avoid the call, but the echo would ring with the name of Toombs! Toombs! and the sturdy Georgia statesman had to respond. At Goldsboroa, in North Carolina, Davis was received at the cars by the military (a part of which were some of the mounted riflemen of that State, then on their way to Vi...