Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-31
Mr., Ftbertdse a, LouIsvIIIo.

was in Louisville on Monday last, and, at
the request of the citizens, made speech 10
the urt:house, which we find reported in
the Courier of Tuesday. Mr. Etheridgs has
an original way of stating things; and The
following passages, selected from his re-
marks, are as interesting in.respect to matter
as in manner they are amusing:
How hard a tale will it take to bring
flush through the sharded skin Of these dis
unionists . They asked for Louisiana, and
it was purchased. They asked for Florida,
end obtained it. They asked repeal of the
Missouri Compromise, and it was repealed.
What haye they asked that has NOT, sooner
or Later, been done . H. ,.gs,.I
An effort Is made to drag Kentucky from
her moorings by ipcendiary appeals. The
Arguments they use are as false as the hearts
from which they emanate. t
Every law passed on slavery has been by
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. in States, Territories,
the Dietrict of Columbia, or the dock yards
They denounce and stultify themselves, snd
win, If they succeed, utterly destroy the
commercial interests of the country. Horace
Greeley said the other day that he admired
the open Disunionists. So do admire the
boldness as do that Of the first Disuuionists
who seeded 70 h--ll. i can not like these
wishy washy, time serving men, who do not
come out These men who say, " | am for
the Union / can get my rights. But, oh,
! can not get my rights They are
like the Kitten that creeps up to the hot
jsmb, If Union turns up majority, they'sTe
for Union; if not, they are not. If you trust
these weak back disunionists you will be
! cheated, They are like the old fellow who
was Christian in good crop years. .,
If you would know what disunion is, go
to Tennessee and see the anarchy and des-
podsm that prevails there; life imperiled,l
free speech denied, and State governed or
not governed by @mob. See and reflect if,
in the beginning, secession plays such uni
versal HI, what it viii be in the end. Why.
is this fratricidai war; Why have we 70
go back hundred years in civilization be.
cause of the disappointment of broken down
ambition. Look how it was done. In my
own State the Legislature submitted the
question Of Convention or no Convention.
II was voted down. "A few months after the
Legislature met, assumed despotic power,
and declared the State out of the Union
waded through perjury in legal sense to
accomplish it. They got arms in Baton
Rouge, and we we're met at every railroad
depot with the bsyonet to coerce.
You believe yourself safe in Kentucky. l
hope you are, but the enemy is willy and
active, They appeal 70 you about the negro
question. 1t is the rights imperiled.. Is that
the eause2 South Carolina, the boldest and
most honest rebelled and took the conse-
| quences. She looked for war. Here dis
union weeps over Cutie and Ssmbo. Have
| you suffered wrong from your sister States
over the border2 You live in peace with
them, you're allied to them by interest and
inter. marriage, but South Carolina says you
shall not live in peace. Hear what she says:
Governor Packer says: alt is no mad act
1t has been preparing for thirty years." Ing
els says the same thing. Keith, the Murat,
/ as they call him, of the revolution, for they
give them all names. (Take a lean, lank fell
/ low, that all the hog and hominy in Kentucky
/ wouldn't fatten, they will lead him aside and
tell him be is like Jack Rsunal; that's the
way they pronounce Randolph. Or they tell
felloY, with deformed head that he has a
Napoleonic head and you see him with a
! cigar stuck in one corner of his mouth at an
angle of forty degrees, strutiing the streets
| like regiment of soldiers.) MIR. Keith says:
live been att (Secession) all my life" r.
Bsrnwell Rhett says; Nothing was pro-
duced by Lincolns election; it has been grow
ing for thirty years. Why2 Because one
Andrew jackson pronounced the act treason
thirty one years ago. -ts-.l s..--.l
These are the men that inaugutate this.
They have no reason to fear about fugitive
slaves. They are tooafar off. Florida, en-
circled by the ocean and the gulf, is safe.
And ss for South Carolina, she never lost but
two negroes, and those went off in the ship
with the delegates TO the Democratic Con-
yention., Talk of their running off The
negroes are not more, than so high. Z Tne
speaker measured about three feet from the
floor with his hand When they feed them
on red herring and fill them up with water
you can't e1pectt hem to run far, y "a. =.
The speaker said but three negroes had
seceded from where he lived, and they were
brought back, and were, no doubt, very much
oaA fo Whah ;o,b haI
Tennessee TO go out2 Every runaway negro
from that State had 10 pass through Ken
lucky, and he would not say Kentucky had
an underground railroad. They would not
attempt that-at least since Gov. Magofin's
antiiinvasion message. !, said Mr.. Etheridge,
made an estimate Of the negroes that ran
away from Virginia, estimating their value
at $500, what they were worth before Seces-
sion destroyed the value Of this class of prop
-erty, and then calculated the worth Of those
remaining, and found the loss not to be ten,
or eight, or one per cent, but one fourth of q
mill on the dollar. It could not be that
which bad driven Virginia out. = q -.
! z Florida claims TO be the second to 90 out
/ of the ,Union,i We paid Spain tor Florida;
paid for driving out the Indians and clearing
! the swamps 1.-THE speaker gave the amount
expendedl and she secedes. Our embassa.
dors met at OsteRd and read the riot act tc
Spain; told her she must sell Florida, or we
7 would have it any how. We bought it and
} paid Tor It, n Y.tH ETEF vtIJU HA
I Suppose we had bought Cuba for $50, ,0Oo, ,OOC
! on Wednesday, paid for it on Thursday, 1t
I had seeded on Friday, don't yon think we
I wonld feel a little like eoercinRon on Saturday
! Or, suppose, Kansas upon which so muct
1 blood and treasure have been spent, was Il
4 take IL into her head 70 walk out of the Unior
some fine morning, wouldn't you feel likt
! driving her backR His plain question
7 will we coerce the serpent now, or wait til
\ it is too strong to be coePeed2 2 5rrE go
/ oBJEcF OF THE UEIoS oONvESFioN IN EAs,
TEsNEssEs The object of the Union Con
vention in East Tennessee is thus stated b.
PAIson BToYnlow;HRFHsTg
= Assuming tO be-not leaders, but promi
nent men in the Union ranks, and believing
that the people in the rural districts Of tn
/ country are even ahead of usin their opposi
tion to the, heresy of Secession, aud 10 tn
late corrupt and unauthorized legislation o
3 the State, a number of Us, in response Il
calls from all parts Of East Tennessee, callet
| this Convention is TO be held wit
open doors, and with view to cOmpar
opinions, copsHlt as to what ought 70. b
done, in view Of all the circumstances sur
n -. 1sun, .,a "a naaea and 0uiaA n