Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1861-08-23

BERIAI BROWN TINS gentleman, VINO IN
several respects very APPLY represents certain
ancient parsonage we read of, who kept up d
walking to and fro and up and down in The
Earth" and labelled with not very euphoni-
GUS nance was in town a few days since. He
has long been The Unfortunate Man, and is
continually and very rapidly getting more and
more SO, One Of this gentleman's misf0rtuues
grows out Of his very large bsneyolence, which
is exceedingly unsuited to war times. Contin-
ual boding upon tears, ard blood, and groans,
aud destitution, and 'worryments" Of the con-
federate army of rebels. has really made Mr..
Brown leaner, and consequently taller, than
usual-and he always was tall enough, and
perhaps too tall, considering that tall men are
usually ike tall houses, the upper story poor
est finished Mr.. Browns benevOlence is Of
peculiar ''strioe,'' the one that contemplates
with delight the lacerated and bleeding backs
Of poor slaves. In his ScUles the Infinite wrongs
of millions Of fellow beings and all the horrid
incidents growing out Of the peculiar instltu-
tom are less than nothing. but on the other
hand, grim visaged war; Liberty is eve
ry thing In this respect he affords another
proof that there is no such thing as accounting
fer astesn-unless, indeed, it be on the by
pothesis that some men have only ''gizzards,"
while others have hearts. We learn that his
present mission is to start secession paper in
Milwaukee, and that he confidently relies upon
certain gentlemen of unenvied notoriety in this
city, to help him in this work, On the hypoth-
esis that everything has its use, it follows that
such men are useful it may be as the distin-
guished above mentioned parsonage was useful
in trying Job, and again as beautiful pictures
must have dark back ground, to show the
better by wide contrast.
While Mr. B. was publishing the Press,
he exultingly proclaimed that Cotton was
King" and therefore that slavery, which was
the servant of King Cotton, must be triumphant
under the ruling monarch. This was truly
worthy Of the slave causel Cotton King !
what impious and insulting doctrine. Why,
1t IS the baldest atheism One would think
that professed christian, like Mr.. B.. would,
according to his profession, say the LORD JEHo-
YAH is King But Slavery is SO degrading that
it corrupts the Church, and men calling them
selves christians 50 far initiate Satan as to az
firm that mere pelf is King. The ancient Per-
SLAMS thought Darius was King but there
were some higher law men, who dared disobey
simply human authority. But here are worse
than heathen-who say that sheer merchandise,
infinitely below humanity, is to be worshipped
We repeat. this idea tina: cotton is King, is the
boldest. the most shameless atheism. and logi-
cally judged, the men who hold it are no less
than atheists,
Here is the whole matter in nutshell-the
pro-slaveryites have no higher law or god, than
merchantable pelf superadded to Incidence,
and cruelty, and lust-while the supporters Of
the government and war, the opponents of sla-
very, regard humanity as Infinitely above mer-
chandize, and God as above all, Certainly no
more need be said