Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1859 — Light in the South. [ARTICLE]

Light in the South.

The Cincinnati Enquirer says of the election o Ethridge or Tennessee: “.A constituency that Will elect a man with such a record ns Etheridge, has not far to go before it will support an out-and-out Republican. Etheridge’s sympathy with the Republicans was notorious at Washington, notorious in Tennessee, and notorious in all parts of the country.” Hon. John ,4. Gilmer, recently elected in North Carolina, has written the following letter: “Dear Sir: I am re-elected by two thousand majority over two opponents, one the regular .Administration nominee, the other of my own party, bitterly denouncing my Anti-Lecompton vote. I feel proud a - being so nobly sustained by an intelligent Southern consti uency for doing my duty in the hour of sectional madness. “John A. Gilmer,”’