Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1862-04-09
The Slavery Question in Tennessee

The Nashville correspondent of the y.
Y. World writes n very interesting letter
about the remarkable speech which Mr.
Etheridgc gave at Nashville few days
ago to crowded audience We make the
following extracts
But the huge thing Of the speech was
It's declaration, III this proud slave capital.
that whenever the question arose, the Con
stitution or slavery, slavery must 30 down
that every negro would lie liberated =
lie declared emphaticaiiy that slave r !
would never be allowed to embarrass re
United States Government or to protect
the war
These sentiments were announced ex-
plicitly and emphatically, and we're re-
ceivcd with as much enthusiasm as they
puld have been in Boston. turned to IA
gentleman by my side. with the d re-
mark, the world moves And so it does
Mr. Etheridge also said that this war
had made more abolitionists than all the
thirty years of anti-slaverv agitation and
that slavery could never have the security
it once had in this country With the
whole civilized world against it. the Gov
eminent of the United States had she.tert
and protected it.
He said slavery was much more easily
defended as permissire than as an az
9ressive thing You have got to live in
the Union with Your slaves if you will,
without them if YOU mnst
He sp cited the nations of the earth
that had abolished IT. lie proved it IN
outlaw. These paints were put and
pressed with fine force ard irankness tt al
amazed me, accustomed as have been to
the public reserve and caution on this
question Of questions in the southern
country during all my life.
Ethridge is Il Shareholder. So are hun
dreds Of others in this State who breathe
freely and talk frankly on this importunate
6anquo ghost OF negro bondage.
ii this war is protracted, exclaimed Mr.
Ethelidgc. then confscation AMI eman"i
patton And Shareholders shook him by
the hand afterward and sand, Am N
have heard and seen enough here to con
vince me that Tennessee is beyond any
border State on the slavery question, ur.
less it be Delaware have been told by
large slaveowners that they would be
| nightly glad to ret rid Of t e institution
They spoke in praise Of President Lin
60 II last message They are in favor
" - - 1tA liz TIT N'it EtlititDl III Stlti
e MAS born among slaves was nursed
BY them, brought up with them, and have
always owned them but | confess to Won
| that am thoroughly sick of the whole IN
stitution. When this army came called
my negroes together and said If YOU
have any notion of leaving me, | have only
one request TO make: leave me altogether
| AID forever; stop nowhere within my
| reach II you turn up around here, II
take you back and fog you; if you gel
out OF my sight, I'll not stir a step after
| YOU. Sir, he continued, the owner i,
| the slave in the border States Free hitt
| labor l. the best for all concerned
Upon expressing my surprise ut such
sentiments, | was told they were nothin-
unusual in this State
While such are the words that come M
to US from genuine Union men of Ten.
ncssee, how many are there in the North
who are so t'mid or 80 bliudly devoted tc
slavery that tn dare not speak like the
| manly Etherid1 e He is not afraid t,
proclaim in the very capital Of slave
State that if the contest reduces itsel tC
one between the Union and slavery, then
the latter must 70 down here as it has
| gone IN SO many lands