Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-09-06

our Letter from Maine.

We ask our readers to see the estimate which
is placed upon the services of ETHERInGE ANDERSON
of KY, GIIMER, of n. c., WINTER DAVIS, DOUGLAS
and others by the Massachusetts, Black Republican
Congressman, ANsoS BURLNGAME. This is the same
BURLNGAME, who in a speech said
'If asked to state specifically what he would do,
he would answer: First, repeal the Nebraska bill ;
second, repeal the Fugitive Slave Law; third, abO
ish slavery in the District of Columbia fourth
abolish the inter slave trade next he would declare
that slavery should not spread to one inch of the
territory Of the Union and then he lo0uLd put the
Government actually on the side Of freedom.
He WOULD HAVE JUDGES WHO BELIEVE IN A HIGHER
LAW, AN ANTIsLAvERY CONSTITUTION, AN ANTF-sLAvERY
BIBLE, AND AN ANTTsLAvERY GOD"
Whether or not Messrs. ETHERIDGE & Co. entertain
the feelings attributed to them by Mr.. BURLNGAME
it is evident that their conduct is such to win the
approval of the Black Republican party. Their
names are used to encourage and arouse our North
ern aggressors to still further aggressions and
well they may be when Mr.. ETHER1DGE in the heart
of the county Fayette) having the largest slave
population in the United States openly boldly pro-
claimed that The everlasting cry Of Northern dggres
sion tcdS grO1desS the largest demands of the South
had been met she had asked nothing but ,ohat she had
gained when Mr.. ETHERIDGg could announce to
that people that Mr.. BELLS platform contained all
that was contained in the Black Republican plat
form except the three last articles IN t." The writer
may have meant /" three first" but first or last it
leaves the fifth seventh eighth, tenth and eleventh
articles contained in Mr.. BELLS platform;
winch articles contain the very essence of Black
Republicanism. 1t Is true that Mr.. ETHERDGE says
the same doctrines contained in the platforms of
BRECKNRDGE and DOUGLAS. We deny his assertion
and deny his right to construe the platform of Mr.
BRECKNRDGE An account of this effort of Mr..
ETHERIDGE at Somervile is given by q correspon-
dent in the Banner of Tuesday, the 4th, without a
word of dissent from this old and able organ of Mr.
BELL, published here Immediately under his eye.
The Banners correspondent thus speaks of Mr..
ETHERIDGE: He is emphaticaHybte great man Of Ten
neSsee-1uTiUaled and 1RapproaebaJIe orator as
dsbater, patriot. Things are set right where
ever ETHERDGE goes and the people vote right when
they hear him." We repeat, well may the Black
Republican host under such circumstances feel en-
couraged to persist in their antislavery efforts IN
til "te sun shall not rise upon master set upon
a slave" People of the South remember the Ian
guage of VIM II. SEWARD in the United States Senate
on the Kansas question:
at last nel0 rOice issues from yor o1ra region
FROM THE SOUTH. from the Stare States and protests
against yOlu further persistence IN this mad Enterprise
[Of extending SldUayl and adIEOBSheS yOt that must
and 1oiH fail The cohorts are gathering FROM THE
SOUTH the Of moderation and conservatism, lrhO,
as tbeu hare HERETOFORE MODERATED IN FAVOR OF
SLAVERY AND AGAINST FREEDOM 1oiH be obliged IN
consistency 1U their Just and 5OeU established ctdrdc
ter and their patriotism MODERATE AGAINST YOU N
FAVOR OF FREEDOM, AND RISE UP UNANIMOUSLY
AGAINST SLAVERY"