The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-04-09
THE GATE CITY

TAs slavery Qasstisn i'm Tennessee
The Nashville correspondent of thu
World writes very interesting lstse
about the remarkable speech which Mr.
Etheridge gave 1t Nashville a few day
ago to crowded audience. We make ID,
following extracts
"But the huge thing Of the speech wal
its declaration in this proud slave capital
that whenever the question arose, the
Constitution OF slavery, slavery must g
down--that every negro would be liberst.
ed. He declared cmphatically that slave
ry would never be allowed te embarass
the United States Government or to pro-
tract the war.
These sentiments were announced ex-
plicitly and alphabetically, and were re-
ceived with Is much enthusiasm as they
could have been IN Boston. turned to
a gentleman by my side, with the old re-
mark, 1.-The world moves And so il
does.
Mr.. Etheridge also said that this war
had made more abolitionists than all the
thirty years Of anti-slavcry 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 shelter
ed and protected it.
He said slavery was much more easily
defended AS a pevm1ssirc than A. al ag-
gressive thing. You have got to live in
the Union with your slaves if you will,
without them if you must. i
He specified the nations of the earth
that had abolished it, He proved it an
outlaw. These points we're put and pressed
with fine force aud frankness that amazed
me, accustomed as ] have been to the
public reserve aud caution on this qfles-
ton Of questions in the southern country
during all my life
Etheridge is a stakeholder. So are
hundreds Of others in this State who
breathe freely and talk frankly on this i'm
Fortunate Banquo's ghost of negro bond
age.
II this war is protracted, exclaimed
Mr.. Etheridge, then con6scation and
emancipation And shareholders shook
him by the hand aftsrward and said, amen.
] hare heard and seen enough here to
convince me that Tennessee is beyond
any border State on the slave question,
unless it be Delaware. | have been told
by slayeowners that they would be might
ly glad to get rid Of the institution. They
spoke in praise:of President Lincoln late
message. They are in favor of its ex.
pertinent. One gentleman said II was
born among slaves; was nurscd by them,
brought up with them, and have always
owned them but | confess to you that
am thoroughly sick Of the whole institu-
ton. 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 and
forever; stop nowhere within my reach
II you turn up around here, I'll take you
back and fog you ; if you get oat of my
sight, III not stir step after you Sir,
he continued, the owner 10 the slave in
the border States. Free white labor is
the best of all concerned
Upon expressing my surprise at such
sentiments, | was told they were nothing
unusual in this State.
While such are the words that come up
to us from genuine Union men of Ten
nessee. how many men are there in the
North vi are so timid or SO blindly de.
voted to slavery that they dare not speak
like the manly Etheridges He is not
afraid TO proclaim in the very capital OF
a slave State that if the contest reduces
itself to one between the Union and slave
ry, then the latter must go down here as
1t has gone in SO many lands.
A WOUNDED IRisHMAN's WlT.--The
following incident occurred at Pea Ridge:
One Of our boys was, in the heart of
the tight, wounded in both feet by can
non ball. Our forces having fallen back
hls Irish wit was brought into play. See
Ing big sccesh coming by, he presented
his mnsket, made the fellow surrender.
shoulder him, and in this position he rode
into our lines, where he delivered Mr..
butternat oversas a prisoner
EXPENSIVE KrSDLiNu MArrx1AL
The wife of a we'll known legal gentleman
OF Troy, last week purchased dua1tltv
OF honiton lace, amounting to about $40
IN value, which she carried home and
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