Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-07-25
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"o..' JFrom The Missouri Republican, .
EMERSON ETHERID 1EI TO THE
o5a.- a., PRESIDENT. ,gs,r. ,'
Why Etheridge was Arrested.
CAUsTIC REVIEW OF PRESIDENT JOHNSON
III enc. AND PARs0N BR0WNL0W.
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/ You further promised your rebel friends
what Tennessee should do, if new guaran-i
tees for slavery were refused. You said,
Tennessee will be found standing as firm
and unyielding in her demands for those
guarantees - y - as any other State in
the Confederacyp asserted, also, that you
had declared the election of Lincoln and
Hamlin sectional that you avOwed your
purpose, to "put down Mr. Lincoln and
drive back his advances upon Southern in
stitutions," that you promised not to aband--,
on your Northern Democratic friends and
leave all to Lincoln's cohorts, :" that you SOL.
emnly pledged yourself not to 'permit Mr.
Lincoln to come with his cohorts, as zoe COM con-
slider them, from the North, to carry OF every
charged upon YOU, and proved by your
speech of 18th, and 18th of December, 1860.
Continuing my address,, said that If you
were a credible witness-I beg you to be-
lieve SO regard you'll could prove that
every political supporter and, admirer of
your Excellency, and every follower of the
saintly Brownlow7 then and there present.
was disuntoniSt. In doing this, Tread from
speech made by you, at Columbia, Tenn
essee, on the I'd of June, 1862. Itwas revis-
ed by yourself, and published in yotr own
organ, The N dshUilte U Rio,t, of June 8, 1862,
then edited by your friend Mercer, who is
best known as "Quinine Mercer" because OF
his sympathy with the rebel sick, to whom,
it is alleged, he kindly smuggled that m
valuable medicine while he sojOurned with
in the Federal lines. . .'l- 9dj -ni5a.nT
| read the following: ....-l.-.-. ...-i...,q
| ''Now, will prove, very briefly, that a
secessionist is as great an Abolitionist as
Sumner. Both the secessiOnist and disun-
ionist are for breaking up this Union. L
will state the argument in asyllogism, thus:
/ An Abolitionist is disunionisJ a disun-
ionist is a secessionist; a secessionist is a
| disuniOnist; a disunionist is an AbOlitiOnisL.
| Therefore, secessionist is an AbolitiOnist.
There is not a particle of difference between
| them,",r. .E .g1 g,.Ie e,y.t gs..l....rIy-
/ Irepeat, I read the foregoing, after which ]
| was so irreverent as to say, in regard TO
your syllogism, that could find the Syly
but not the gisnlr but you were distinct and
positive in the allegation that !"an A9ohttor-
| ist is a disunionist." All this, and much
more, did i say, may it please your Excel
| lency, for the many pious purposes herein
after enumerated chiefly however. with
the design of quieting the hearts and con-
tseiences of a few of your old rebel friends,
office holders and trade agents, who desire
/ to join You in your late, but earnest cham
pionship of the rights of the colored race,
| They have some pride of consistency. Hav-
ing always been rebels at heart they dislike
suddenly to BECOME ,Abolitionsts, tearing
| they may be. required, in following your
| illustrious example, to deal harshly with
those who, from a false sense of shame, are
still Unwilling, by turning. Abolitionists, To
incur the rebel reproaeh of apostasy. They
urge that they dislike to be called Judases;
and vet, they swish to be with you and at
rest.n Hence the struggle between their old
party and rebel pride, and their louef for you;
| their dire necessities and love of cash., With
all such l adopted this mode of reasoning:
| That the popular judgment is often wrong,
and traditionary or hereditary prejudiees
rarely right" For example, would take
| two celebrated cases, those of Pilate and
Judas; that, the Christian world affected,
nay, ltlgreat horror, of their names and
characters, that they were associated with
the murder of our Savior, and, therefore.
no one supposed itpossible tofind anything
| in their natures to eXtenuate the severe
| Judgment Of mankind whereas, in fact
PLATE was bitterly opposed to our SavieH's
prosecutions and, ignominious death, and
protested he "foupdt no fault in Him.
while > The mob >, (may, heaven protect
aN GIAvfdeSs - oSsc'It;nn ,hS withnmt even III
ManI @ wry ~ to9vih m;I;tarv arrest. that fnSas
GiSmi.y, ~, y, no hnd %asyn, ah1e ~ ascsrto oin' IL
roar5 t - W. his % cbaractar cn e vas a. % yerv nnob.
u trgs;va ~ reticent % man better fitted 1by ma
ture far a trade agent or contractor, than
disciple; that, though he .turned his back
upon his, friends" nay, ss5etraved them, . he
was neither the first nor the last who had
Welded to termination; that his reward was
hard Eaoaaey.--thirty huge pieoes--and long
before Chase had inflated the currency, OF
California had augmen tAd the coin; that he
was man OF sensibility; that he repented
and so suffered from remorse that he burst
his bowels. / assured the seGessionistsIand
office-seekers, however, that they need moi
wait for quarantine before Joining the army
of Sumner and John Brown; that you had
done so. turned yo;a back .upon them, be-
trayed them, and that, although the official
health buIletii represented YOU iii a pre-
cartons Condition, I'had vet seen no mention
0fat,y morbid distension Of your bowels
Nor did I fail 10 remind the audience of THE
radical change in your opinions of Johf
Brown and Mr. Seward, Since You dehounc.
ed tife one as "a murderer, a fobber, a THE
and traitor" and the other as his political
tutor. / pointed to the remarkable ease
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