Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-09-07

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: that Il wsa 0Ill 4 be cons sfesl 81 these
among Who's Il existed Bak yoa balieve
sou mast FeilleRa Ehb s.ni h4csnsa you
say slavery rs tbe cause IT tie war /
have said tlsft original sin was tie enase Of
it,
The pabiiu will plsase eompare With tie
abose paragraph ths fpIIowing report 81 tho
correspondents o. ne New York World =
strong Democrats jpurbtt Of NJ Ethe.
ridges spessh ala1s b this place on she1stk
u March, lsess
NJ. KrItknspan's SPEECH.
i II there e.sa 10 sarh : thing, this was an
ultra Union speeeh-a fact worth Noticing.
For 70 say the truth, II the sentiments Of
this speech are digestible --are pafafabie In
This quarter Ne may havs no hope 81 I'm
nesees
Mr. Ethefids0 called spad0a spade. He
made this rsbelIi0h against this aoyurn.
ment took o. odions, disgusting and aetustl.
bic rs loyal lips can describe &c Hapns on
tho canvass 'efennessee before tho rebellion,
and Tennessee since. He tnrned tbs eYes
Of the attentive upon this picture, and then
upon that
He proved what seems 10 need proof,
even in Tennessee, that the South had never
asked of The North an actof legislation that
she did not get, and had never protested
against one that wass not defeated He ox-
posed the silly little pretcxt Of Northern
interference with Southern Institutions.
"But the huge thing Of the speech was
It's declaration, IN this proud slave capital,
that whenever the question arose, the Con.
stitution or slavery, slavery must 20 down
that every negro would Be liberated. He
declared crnphaticalIy that slavery would
never baell0wed TO embarrass the United
States erament, or 70 protraet tho war.
These sentiments wcrn announced cx-
plieitely and emphatically, and were receiv-
ed with as mach enthusiasm as thcy could
have been in Boston. ArFned 10 gen
ileman by my side with tho old remark,
'the world moves And Il does.
Mr.. Etheridge said also that this war had
made moro abolitionists than al the thirty
years of anti-slaTery agitation, and that
slavery could never have the security Il |
once had in this country. With the whole |
civilized world against Il, the Government |
of the United States has sheltered and pro-
tected it.
',He said slavery was much more easily /
defended as pernissive than ~ an aggres- |
sive thing. You have got to live in Union |
with your slaves If you will, without them
IL you must
lie specified the nations Of The earth that
had abolished t. He proved II an outrage.
These points were put and pressed with Ene !
force and ffankness-with ffankness that
amazed me, accustomed rs / have been to
the public reserve and caution on this ques-
ton of questions in the South country du-
ring all my life
Make note Of this. Tell it In Galh.-
Publish il in streets Of Askalon. Let the |
historian take a memorandum Of Il
EthcTidge 10 a Shareholder. So are hun
drcds Of others In this State who breathe
freely and talk frankly on this importunate
Banquo's ghost Of negro bondage. This
war Is working revivals, 10 ID the John
the Baptist Of civilization crying In thewil.
derness Of the United States aRepeht, re-
turn, rOhect, for the kingdom Of Columbia
ia at hand
IF this war b prolraeted, exclaimed Mr..
Etheridge, then confscatien and emancipa-
ton And shareholders shook him By the /
hand aiterward and said amen."