The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-10-28
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The Cairo Democrat, touching upon Ten
nsssee politics, and having declared that
the radicals are snow earnestly iaborlng in
behalf of the red-egs OF the Border Slave
States" proceeds as follows:
Our armies have cut their way with the
bayonet into some of the middle States,
and strong military possession is retained
there, and at once there sprang up gang OF
lawless aud unprincipled adventures. who,
when under the Confederate rule, we're dis
tinguished for the violence of their secession
sentiments, and their relentless persecu.
tions of Union men wherever they could
find them; and who, when the Federals have
taken possession are, as if by some magic, at
once as violent and radical abolitionists as
they were secessionists the day before. But
Yesterday they hunted out and robbed and
murdered Union men in the name
of secession, and to-day they rob and
murder the real true and ever consistent
Uniou men under the name OF loyalty to
the Union.
We have marched oun armies into the
conquered districts, and We have witnessed
whereof we speak In the captured cities
the effort always was at once made to call
together the Union men for the purpose OF
holding Union meetings. The history OF
these meetings as we have always OBJ
served them was invariably this: The men
who had been always, in the face of the foe,
true and outspoken Union men, were ruled
out of any voice in them by the converts oil
the day, and the meetings and proceedings
were managed by these reckless and unprln'
cipled men, who have displayed versatili
ty of adaptation to circumstances and an
absence to all honor and manhood, to de
gree approaching perfection. When the
storm of mad political passion was sweeping
as with the bosom of destruction, the South
ern States into rebellion, there occasionally
came to cneer the patriotic hearts ot the
North, above the din Of secession from the
South, the manly voice Of few brave anG
good patriots who were breasting the storms,
and battling Ike Spartan heroes in the de-
fence of their country. The North being
then animated with n sentiment but genu'
inc patriotism, sounded the names of these
dauntless heroes with warm praises.
Prominent among the gallant Southern
patriots was Emerson Ethridge, of Tennes
see, who stood by the Union when by so
doing his life was in constant peril. The
gallant conduct of this dauntless patriot is
too fresh in the minds of the people to be
vet forgotten. Emerson Ethridge is the
same patriot to day that he ever has been.
He feels the same deep interest in the vel
fare and loyalty Of his State that he felt
when he so noby risked his life IN her de-
fence. But now we find this man the re
cipient OF unmeasured abuse from the cheap
patriots of the abolition administration par
tv because he will not forsaka his allegl-
ance to his State and the Union and bow
down and swear undying fealty to tue aboi-
ition party. But yesterday the NeUs ex
pended all the little power il possesses IN
abusing aud slandering this man, whose
only crime has ever been disloyalty to the
Southern Confederacy and to the abolition
party. II has no word of abuse for the in.
famous Jim Lane because it cannot call him
a copperhead, but it can exhaust its vocab
ulary of hard words on Emerson Ethrdge,
because he will not join the Jacobin raid
upon the Border States-cry amen to the
pillage and robbmg of loyal citizens-the
laying waste large portions of the country,
and howl Of the abolitionistS against the
only Union men there arc in the Border
States, in order that they may place them
selves in positions aad power
The same Emerson Ethrdge that e'gu-
teen months ago all were delightIng t" hon
or is now, if we are to believe the Jacobln
! league organs, vile ID abominable tUai-
torous copperhead
The Ne,rS says: Chief among those that
have lent themselves as willing tools to Sc
oessionists and copperheads is Emerson Eth
ridge and the Chattanooga RcbeI excaims
"Chief among the traitors in Tennessee to
the Southern cause is Emerson Ethridge,
who has sold himself to the Yankees .
Gould any better evidence be required to
prove that the man who is disloyal TO the
rebel cause, is also disioyal to the present
party in p0'gs, and the man who is loyal TO
his country is disl2ya! to both.
No patriot could ask for brighter es-
cutcheon TO hand down TO posterity than
disloyalty to secession and abolitionism-- -
, Emerson Etbridge has now the undyins
hatred of the rebels and Of the abolitionists
and thereby at immortality we'll worthy o
Imitation.