Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-07-24
LETTER OF EMERSON ETHERIDGE
To THE PRESIDENT.

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We publish this morning the sarcastic Ano
very readable letter of ENEKsoS ErHERIDcE TO
the President, written after his arrest in which
he states the causos which induced il. Mr..
ErHrns,cE avows that in his recent speeches IN
Tennessee he occupied the same position he did
in 1861. when be vas driven from the State on
account Of bis Union sentiments, and elected By
the Republicans Clerk Of the United States
House Of Representatives. The letter will be
read with interest, for TIA review OF the position
Of ANDY JOHNSON on the rights of the Southern
States, and their duty ia the Gaze Of the election
OF sectional Candidates to the Presidency and
Vice Presidency RI the statements Of hr.
ETHERIDeE are correct and be quotes from
public records. i. appears that tho Presi-
dent wac ultra State Rights. and recon-
mended secession in case The rights o.
the slave States we're not respected. and
this, too, while the former insisting that
the Sonth should fight her battles within the
Union and under the Constitution. IL the Pres
ident was so near making up his bed with tie Sc
cessonis,s. he should have some consideration
for those who we're battling bis teachings and
finally sided With the great msjori.y Of their iel
Low citizens after the overt &C, was committed.
II appears by the special dispatches to the Gin
cinnati Gazette, that a writ Of habess corpus was
sued out directing his military keeper to produce
the body OF Mr. ErHRTpGE, TO which Gen THOMAS
directed the following answer to be returned:
NASHVILLE, July 81.
A writ of hahaaa cornuz having been sued ont
directing Col De Bdssey 20 produce the body Of
Emerson Etheriige the former telegraphs to
General Thomas for Instructions The follow
ing is the reply:
NASHVILLE, July 81
To Lieut. Col T. T. De Bussey. at Columbus.
Kentucky:
Make the following return 20 the writ oil ha-
beas corpus in the case of Emerson Etheridge:
To Hon C. s. Marshall, judge Of the First Ju-
dieiaI District Of kentucky:
/ hereby acknov ledge the service of the writ
hereto attached. and return tho same, and re-
spectfully reply rhat | am instructed my Major
General Thomas. commanding the Military Di-
vision ef Tennessee, TO say that the BODY Of
Emerson Etheridge is in my possession, and BY
virtue of the order of the President of the
United States, bearing date War Department
4Adjutant Generals Oiies, Washington. July 10,
1861
(Here follows President LincOln's Pr0cls ma
ton of that date. suspeDding the writ oil habeas
corpus in Kentucky. and prociairning martial
Law in that State)
General Thomas continues: Said Emerson
Etheridge, having aided and abetted the enemy.
AM disturbed the public peace by scdtions and
intismmatory speeches. denOuncing the Govern
mefit OF the State Of Tennessee and the President
of the United States, is clearly included in the
class OF persons named in the order of the Presi-
dent, and DO not produce said body by reason
of said order of the President.
In directing this return to the writ, General
Thomas regrets that there should be any Coz
fict between the civil and military authorities
At the same time the petitioner Etheridge will
remember the issue was not Of Gen Thomas
making, it was forced upou him by Dir. Ether
idge. By command of
Mai Gen. THoNAs
WBIPPLE. Brig. Gen. and Chief of Staff