Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-07-28


The Cincinnati Enquirer andthe Louis
vile Journal were both ardent advocates
Of the election of Mcclellan, but there is
a marked difference in their present posi-
ton on public affairs, as will be seen by
the following brace of paragraphs in re-
lation to the. arrest of Emerson Etheridge
for persistence in uttering rebellious and
reasonable language:
The military arrest of the Hon. Elmer
son Etheridge, a candidate for Congress
in Tennessee, on account of his political
sentiments, is another of the lawless as
sumptions of despotic power to which the
people have become accustomed in the
last four years. They used to be justified
upon the plea that 1t was war time, and
that civil rights were therefore suspend
ed; but since peace has come, and all re-
sistance in the South entirely ceased, we
find them going on just the same. Eth
eridge has been from the start one of the
strongest Union men in Tennessee, and
WAS driver int exile on that account IN
1S61.=CiHcimndti Enquirer.
The editor of the Enquirer evidently
knows nothing about the arrest of Mr..
Etheridge. That distinguished gentle
man, whether one of the strongest Union
men in Tennessee heretofore or not, has
been an avoWed enemy of the Govern
ment for nearly two years, and we are
told that his late speeches in Tennessee
have been as rebelliOus as any ever deliv-
cred by the notorious Bill Yancey or any
other secessionist in the recent rebel
lion. 1t must be now understood that
such speeches cannot be made any longer
under the stars and stripes. 1t should be
also remembered that James Buchanan
is no longer President of the United
States. Treason is as damnable a crime
in peace times" as in war times. "-Lou-
jSUiHe Journal.
One of the ~harangues that caused the
arrest of Etheridge is thus described by
a correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette,
a reliable Tennesseean, who heard him
speak at Trenton, in that State:
Il heard the speech of Nh. Ethridge
at Trenton, delivered a few days before
his arrest. Instead of advising his hear
ers to act up to the requirements of the
National and State Constitutions, his
speech was filed from beginning to end
with seditious %eounsels. The President
and Governor were denounced as usurpers
and tyrants worse than JEFF. Davis. The
returned rebel soldiers were told to vote
the August election, regardless of the
law DISTINGUISHING them, which was pro-
nounced no law. The whole civil govern
ment of Tennessee was pronounced bogus
and unworthy of respect. Mr.. Etheridge
declared that no people ever had better
cause for resistance to arbitrary power
than the rebels had duringthe prosecution
of the war for the suppression of the re-
bellion. The whole scope and tenor of
three hours speech was to excite dis
and stir up sedition in the minds
of those who have heretofore favored the
rebellion. One incident at the close of
speech will serve better than a whole
of comment, to show the charac-
ter of his speech. A Mr.. Fuel, who had
been a Lieutenant in the rebel service,
took the stand, and announced that he
was for secession and the Southern Con-
federacy, and proclaimed Etheridge as his
candidate for Congress-"