Hon. Emerson Etheridge, a member of Congress from Tennessee,
recently made a speech in Indiana, and a writer to the republican press of the
North gives its substance as follows:
“He exhorted his political friends to cast away all ideas of
supporting a ‘Bell’ ticket in Indiana, and give their united support to
Lincoln. He advised that all efforts of
the united opposition should be directed to the overthrow of the democratic
party, which could be only be done by defeating their candidates as many States
as possible. He said if he lived in
Indian he would vote for Lincoln, but as he lived in a State where his own
ticket had a chance, he would vote for Bell.
This advice from a man of his position held by Mr. Etheridge in his
party has great weight with the members of that party in Indiana.”
— Published
in The Abbeville Press, Abbeville, South Carolina, Friday Morning,
November 9, 1860, p. 2
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