The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-11-21
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Of Two milIions and half to the already i'm.
neose debt Of this State.
| CHRISTIAN CONTROVERSY BsrwEEN TWO MoDaL
| FAEsoNs,- Parson Brownlow. of Tennessee, is
we'll known throughout the country, a. least by
reputation, though The anecdotes told OF him do
not always rebound to the excellence of the
celdotai character, parson Pryne, of Rochester,,
BIS not SO widespread u reputaton, and his
| name will not be familiar to the eyes or many
Of our readers. Both parsons appear to be Il,
| The sane tine editors-sO much the worse for
The journalistic profession. Parson Brownlow
is the editor Of the Knoxville Wing; Parson
Pryne, We believe, is in charge of Frederick
Douglass paper while the editor in chief is on
| his tour Of safety pleasure and profit through
| the British dominions and islands. The two
parsons had public debate Ia Philadelphia
during the summer of 1858 on the question Of
| African slavery, the Tennesseean undertaking
to prove that the institution is divineiy orgi-
nuted and sanctioned-the Rochester man hold
| ing to the negative of the proposition. The
debate. however, was characterized by ill
temper and stupidity, and the hopeful pair Of
parsons separated with a most Christian con
tempt for each other.
| Parson Brownlow has resumed the disgusting
fight, making use this time of the pen instead
Of the tongue Through the columns Of the
Knoxville Wing he sends his insulting chal-
lenge to his fellow preacher, haunting him with
being the identical Stevens who was said to
have made bis escape from Harper's Ferry,
and whose description appeared to coincide
minutely with that of Pryne; expressing
the benevolent wish that he (Pryne) would
be brought to Virginia and hung and sug
costing the probability of his (Browulow's)
being present on the scafold, administering in
Prynes dying agonies the CONSULTATIONS of the
Gospel" His letter concludes with this beauti-
full specimen of Christian charity and love in re-
| ference to the actors in the Harper's Ferry in
vasion:-" We have put some of your party to
sleep with cold planks under their heads, and
others of you we intend shall sleep with ropes
around your necks."
| In response to this pastoral of Brownlows,
| Pryne through the columns of Fred Douglass
pepper, politely intimates that he regards his
| adversary as an offshoot of Tennessee hea-
,benism-a sort of fungus growth of Tennessee
| barbarism;" thanks God that he never sought
| to damn John Browns soul by asking him to
accept as religion the heashenism which he
| (Brownow) preached; calls him Joker of
bad jokes-a generator of evil attempts at
w.t." who has spent his life in burrowing
" after odoriferous morsels of bastard humor;;"
sneers at the Bombastes Furioso of Virginia
Governor Wise) and his "hystercal militia"
hopes to be saved from Wise's lectures and
your (Brownlow's) prayers" and suggests that
though the Tennesseean has not one characters.
tic to fit him for a chaplain, he has San un-
doubted genius for hangman," and that in
putting on the clerical coat he had "robbed
Jack Ketch of an able assistant and wandered
widely from your (his) natural vocation"
The public will undoubtedly be of the
opinion, from the specimens which we have
given, that both these reverend gentlemen
have wandered widely from their natural voca
tons. We will not say that they should have
followed the occupation of q hangman, but they
certainly never should have been permitted to
such violent foul tongued men as Brownlow
and Pryne, and Beecher and Higginson and
Wheelock-who disgust people with religion
itself, and make them attribute to the system
what only belongs to the individual. They do
more to bring disgrace upon our free institu-
tons than even the plug uglies and shoulder
hitters who control our elections. If these fell
lows were not parsons they would probably
have been rowdy politicians.
| REPORT OF THE POLICE DEpARrMENT.-The
Pilsbury to the Police Commissioners, on Fri
day last, presents some interesting statistics of
crime in the metropolis. 1t appears that the
total number of arrests during the last quarter
was 1881, of which 1894 were for offences
against property, and 2O,O77 for offences
against the person or the public peace. This
discrepancy shows the prevalence of the
rowdy element in our midst, for it is pre-
sumabe that the majority of these offences
against the person consisted of barroom
fights, shootings and stabbings, street encoun-
tiers and assault and battery generally. It is
unfortunate that the report does not inform US
what was done with these twenty three, or
nearly twenty-four thousand criminals-how
many were punished, and how many set free to
recommit the offences. Among other statistics
furnished by the General Superintendent, we find
that the aggregate of losses by offences against
property, reported to the Police Department
during the quarter was $51 ,OO5 70; and of this,
S35,6s2 03 was recovered, leaving balance of
Sl5323 20 known net loss from the depreda
tons Of thieves. And further, we learn that
twenty fires were extinguished wholly or par
tally through the aid of the police; twenty