Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-08-21
WhiIher are we Tending!

We published few days since an extract from &
speech of Hon. EMERSON ETHERIDGE, at Dresden
since his return from Washington City, in which he
is reported TO have read the Black Republican plst
form, and asked 4" # there ,oas any man there poIC
could find fault oi IT, He further said that the election
Of Lincoln on that Platform l0OuId giUe peace TO ht
country. so1ist Brecuidges election mould dissOIue
the Union
We also published the statement of the Terre Haue
correspondent of the Newark Advertiser, giving the
following important information respecting the con-
test in Indiana
in regard to the Bell and Everett movement in
the State, nothing positive can yet be known as to
their running electoral ticket in Indiana. Hon.
Richard W. Thompson, the acknowledged leader Of
the party, has expressed his determination to sup
port both the Republican State and electoral tickets,
and il ia understood that he will discourage the or
ganzation Of the party in opposition TO the support
of Lincoln The Hon. F. ETHERIDGE, OF Tennessee,
on his return from Washington, was the guest of
Col. Thompson for a few days and when in the city
was serenaded by his political friends when he
made speech and erhOTted them to cast aside all idea
Of supporting BtH tieoe IN Indiana, and gUe their
united support 10 Lincoln
he adUised that all the efforts Of He united opposition
should be directed to the OUerthroIo Of the Democratic
party 1oich could only be done By defeating their cdpdi-
dates ia many States possible He said If he
HUed IN Indiana he cOd cote for Lneolnl hut as he
lived in a State where his own ticket had chance
he should vote for Bell. This advice from a man of
the position held by Etherdge in his parry. has great
weight with the members Of that party in Indiana.
We have now TO add another important item of
the same character IRON another distinguished
member of the BELL party in Tennessee. We ask
the attention of our readers to the following ex-
tract of letter from friend in knoxville dated
August 18th;
I'VE had a speech here Tuesday night last from
EK-Gov. Bebb (now of this place, but formerly of
Ohio more recently of lllinols.) the character OF
which so well illustrates the Bell party that it
deserving of public notice did not hear it myself
but it has been reported TO me- as will give it TO
you. He said that as he is now citizen OF Ten
nessee. he will vote for Bell and Everett but Il he
stu resident of the North he lcOdd cote TOR Lin
oOn to defeat The Democratic parry This declaration
the Bel men dpplduded) Again lac said that he knew
Lincoln well; that he had recently written to his
(Bebbs) son-in-iaw, residing in Illinois, giving
70 him a report of the state Of political parties in
Tennessee; that he had directed his son-inlaw to
show the letter to Lincoln, &e and had received a
reply to his letter in which his son-inaw informed
him that the letter had been shown to Lincoln; that
he had long and friendly conversation with Lin
coin who told him that the South was doing him In
Justice, &c, &C., and Gov Bebb in this connection
added, that if Lincoln should be elected President, IN
THIS FORMATION or HIS CABINET AND IN THE SELECTION
OF FEDERAL OFFICERS TO BE TAKEN FROM THE SOUTH,
HE WOULD LOOK TO THE BELL PARTY IN THE SOUTH
ERN STATES FOR HIS MATERIAL
Now Bebb is an Ex-Governor of Ohio; has re-
sided not quite year in Tennessee, and yet is put
forward in East Tennessee an orator Of the Bell
party in East Tennessee"
Men of Tennessee, read these extracts from the
speeches of members of the BELL party citizens of
your own State. The language of Senator SEWARD
in the United States Senate Is no longer the Ian
guage of fanatic but strikes our ear with all the
solemnity of the voice Of rophecy. Hear him
at last U0ice issues from your region FROM TIE
SOUTH from The SaUe States and protests against your
further persistence IN This mad enterprise Lof extending
SlGUayl and ad0RiSles you that Il must ana tCa JdaL
The cohorts are gathering FROM THE SOUTH NE men
Of moderation and conservatism, aoho as hey hare
HERETOFORE MODERATED IN FAVOR OF SLAVERY AND
AGAINST FREEDOM lcW nosV be obliged, IN consistency
ooh their Just and loeQ established character ana uelr
patriotism To MODERATE AGAINST YoU IN FAVOR OF
FREEDOM, AND RISE UP UNANIMOUSLY
AGAINST SLAVERY"
Is it not high time that the true men of all parties
in Tennessee and the entire South should rise in the
majesty of their power and consgn to political OBJ
hvion those who either deny or ignore the constitu
tiSnal rights of the people of the Souths Let the
response from the ballot box in November prove
the political death knell of all those who are
willing to make open, unequivocal, und unreenting
warfare upon that Northern ant-slavery senti-
ment that would deprive the Shareholder of his
property, and refuse homes to the Southern non
Shareholders in the common Territories, unless
these Southern viii place themselves heir wives
and children on the same footing with the pauper
free negroes from the ails and cutters of the North
ern cities and runaway slaves from the South
THE RICHMOND NoNrNATIoN.-When does the UNION