Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1860-10-31
To Rev. r. III Hunt.


.SIR:-During the past month, you had a
discussion before 500 persons in Burke coun-
ty, North Carolina, upon the subject of Tenn
perance, with Rev. r. L. Abernethy, Grand
Chaplain of that State, and a Minister of the
Methodist denomination, belonging to the
South Carolina Conference. In that debate
which continued from 8 o'clock A. M till 4,
p. NJ, seven hours, you twice or thrice re-
peated the following SANDER civilian G..
Brownlow is a low-down drunkard. and after
all he has written about Temperance, during
the cholera of 1914, in Nashville, when all
the other Ministers fled, he remained and
danced the streets from morning till night,
with three sheets in the wind and the other
futteringI"
This sir, is your statement, repeatedly
made, before a large audience, in your char
acter and upon your authority, as a Hinkle-
itish Lutheran Preacher. My friend Mr..
A~bernethy, took the liberty, in your pres
ence, and in the hearing of the same people,
to pronounce the whole statement a base
falsehood. And in this, he was altogether
correct. l am more than fifty years of age,
and have fought the monster Intemperance
all my life-never having used ardent spirits
except as a medicine, and when prescribed
by a Physician. This both friends and foes
will say of me in East Tennessee, where | am
we'll known, and have been for thirty years.
As it regards cholera in Nasheyille, | new
f err was in that city during the prevalence Of
the disease and although it prevailed there,
OH more occasions than one, the Ministers OF
: the city did not flee to other parts. For the
i past twenty years and upwards, have resi-.
ded, as | now do, some three hundred miles
Y from Nashville. Therefore, your entire
O statement, in all its parts, as to me, and as te
e the Ministers of Nashville, is an unnitigatec
- falsehood. What could induce you to make
e this ruffian-like attack upon a man behint
his back, running into such excuses of Sian
n der, standing out as %pre-eminent in selec
lie ting themes for lying? What a humiliatin4
spectacle of vice and depravity you are, t,
the world, literally crawling in the dust G
a SANDER! Why, sir, no man would rise u
It. before the audience you addressed On thi
in occasion, and utter the intamouse talsehooC
I'd you did, but an inflated gasometer like yol
er whose brain is a mass of living, creeping
he crawling, writing, turning, loathsome We
ng min How pitiful, how sordid, how lttl
and how wretched an apology for aChristis
IL Minister you are? As you drink liquo
10 give it to your friends, and have your fru
he distilled annually, charity prompts me
to suppose that you are were under the inf
de- ence of liquor when you uttered these Dol
is daring, and unfounded calumnies and d
18th played this irreligious temperament and {
,ns meanor. If you were sober never havi
wv meddled with you or yours in all my life,
ing am driven to the conclusion, that you have
heart unrenewed by grace, and deeply i
bued with the hatred, malice, and ambiti
Of a clerical ru6ian, seeking to rally to
standard a host of sectarian and whisk
bigots-a nature incIining you to battle a
skirmish among sects, and partizans, for
:, sake of glory!
Sir, for the last two years / have been
able to speak publicly on any subject suf
ing all that time from the worst form
Bronchitis. But for this affection, I VIC
her. send an appointment to your country, il
ting you to attend ii. and for about
hours, | would hold you and your assoc
inc. whiskey-makers and whiskey-drinkers,
to the gaze of the same audience. And
the language of Hamlet, whether you
spirit of health, or goblin damned, brin'
with you airs from Heaven or blasts from
with mtents wicked or charitable, cor
0tioo in your questionable shape. 1 would 81
to you in the most nIsnistakeable langu;
But, situated as | am, I wiz permit yo
pass unwhipped by justice!
w. G. BRoEEaw,
Editor Of the KnorriHs u
OCTOBER, 4th, 1850.