Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-10-01
A Missionary Coming.

/ The Rev. w. G. Brownlow of the Metbo-
dist Church South, also editor of the
Rnozuiue Wing, also author of book in
favor OF the "patriarchal institution" which
was favorite in one of the leading meth
odist bookstores in Philadelphia, IS out in
a letter to the N. Y. Times. He does not
diepute the statements made in reference
to Col. Netherland, which have already
been commented on to some extent in all
the journals of the day, except the 'demo--
cratic" He says:
Mr.. Netherland is an honorable man,
humane gentleman, and is not slave
dealer, and never was. ! have known him
intimately for thirty years.
He says also that the statements in re-
lation to the whipping behind the
Presbyterian church in Rogersyille ''ss at
variance scith the facts" He does not
state what the facts are.
After few tame comments on the Ne
therland matter, the Reverend bruizer
goes off under full steam as follows:
s.In your notice of East Tennessee and
the Slavery question, you use this language
Il give the paragraph entire:
in spite of this light character, and these
favorable antecedents a thousand of the
best citizens of the place, few years ago,
assembled and in cold blood burnt negro
alive at the stake. One of the local papers
commenting upon the tragedy boasts of the
fact-which in any other civilized commu-
nifty would have been considered an aggra-
vation of the atrocity-that the perpetra-
tors were cool, calm, and Deliberate The
editor of this same journal, "a minister of
the Gospel adds: we unhesitatingly
affirm that the punishment was unequal to
the crime. Had we been there, we should
have taken part, and even suggested the
pinching of pieces out of him with red-hot
pinchers, the cutting off of limb at time,
and then burning them all in heap
"Now, the local paper, alluded to, is
the Knoxville Wing, of which am the
sole editor, and have been for the last nine
teen years. paper having larger eircula-
tion than any paper ever published in East
Tennessee. And I am the Minister Of the
Gospel alluded to-a local minester of the
Methodist Church, South. The remarks
attributed 10 me are correctly quoted, and
if had been present, and there had SEEM
ed to be any necessity for my doing SO, /
would have said and done just what then
stated, and l would have been cool, calm,
and deliberate in so doing, for this is our
mode of doing things down South And
whys Because some Anti Slavery villains,
mostly from the North, were making a fuss
about the matter; and seeking to rescue the
negro"
The Reverend Brownlow then states the
offence of the negro in the case alluded to,
which was indeed terrible, nameless, and
leaving out the murder with which it ter
minated, was one he might have learned
from any of his gay young masters.
We give few extracts from the conclu-
sion of the epistle of Rev. Brownlow and
congratulate the benighted people of the
New England States on the princless boon
about to be conferred upon them by the
new Missionary. He says:
"The villainous agitation of the Slavery
question by your longfaced hypocrites and
vagabond philanthropists of the North is
only intended to give birth to new and
more lofty schemes of disunion and to more
bold and hazardous enterprises in the States
and Territories.
at is Northern Abolitionists, scoras of
whom are here in the South in disguise,
who stir up our slaves to these acts of
murder and violence. Some of them are
filling our pulpits-some occupying high
positions in our colleges-some editing po-
litical and religious newspapers some
practicing medicine selling goods
and some stealing through the country as
secret agents of Abolition societies, entic-
ing negroes to run away. These scoun-
drels ought to be lynched, rode upon rails,
and in many instances hung!
4 4
1t is my purpose to spend this coming
Winter in the principal cities of the South,
lecturing upon the subject of Slavery, the
morality of the contrasting the
condition of free persons of color in the
Free States with that of the slaves in the
South. In the Spring I purpose visiting
the New England States, and repeating
the same lectures. In other words, pro-
pose to go among you as Southern mis-
sionary, to enlighten your benighted Free
Soil population upon the subject of Slave
ry. look upon the cities and towns of
the New England States, and of the north
western States, as opening a wider and
more inviting field, at this time, for faith
full missionary larbors than Hindostan.
Siam, Ceylon, China, or Western Africa!
In addition to your wicked and rebellious
course upon the Slavery question, you have
forsaken the true God and the Christian
religion, and gone off after Spirtualism,
Fanny Wrightism, Fourierism, Mormonism,
Abolitionism, Devilism, and the hundred
and-one isms so spontaneously produced
by New England soil!
l hope, gentlemen you will do me the
favor TO publish this hasty-written letter,
and your Black Republican associates the
kindness to let then know i am coming.
They may wish to muster up one of your
Beecher's or Parker's to reply to me. l
will divide time with any one ofyour pioms
freedom-shriekers. Respectfully, DC,
w. G. BRowNLow.
Sept. IL, 1857. Editor of the Knox
vile Whig.
Hops.-Hop picking has commenced
throughout the great district of this State,
and will be continued for about three weeks.
The crop will prove as good in quality, on