Litchfield enquirer., 1862-06-05
PARsoN BRowNLow's VISIT.

HELD, CONN, 5THURSDA
 PARsoN BRowNLow's VISIT.
 REV WILLIAM G. BRowNLow-more famil. Iiarly called Parson BrownIew-received, during his recent visit to New York City, and will doubtless receive during the continuation Of his Tourney into New England, spontaneous and enthusiastic welcome from citizens of all parties
 His story of the sufferings which he and his com patriots of East Tennessee have undergone at the hands of the rebels, was brave and honor able testimony of patriotic fidelity to the Onlon amid trials which men of ordinary strength and character would less victoriously have borne The recital-despite the rough and uncouth man. ner of the reciter-drew tears from many eyes, and sympathy from all hearts.
 1 The great audiences who attended his speech es, and the throng of friendly strangers who took him by the hand in the parlors of the Postmas- ter of Brooklyn, overwhelmed him with grateful emotion. .. -,s
 MT. Brownlow is drawing nigh to sixty years of age, tall and slender in figure, with dark hair and eyes; face of remarkably sharp outlines, wearing just now look of illness and weariness by reason of his rigorous imprisonment. He came originally from Virginia -hailing from the same birth place with Floyd, near Wythe, in the western part of the state. He began life honest, as he says, and has remained poor; while Floyd turning knavish, grew rich. Till his twenty-ffth year, he was house carpenter. Then, drop ping his jack plane he took the saddle bags of Methodist travelling preacher and rode a hard circuit fer ten years. Becoming engrossed in the political questions of the time, and never as he testifes, remaining neutral on any subject, he became partizan leader in politics, and soon began to exercise great influence as the editor of newspaper an employment which, for thir- ty years, has supplied him with plenty of hard work. .. --- He exhibits, in his character, a singular union of high moral and intellectual qualities with an almost unaccountable deficiency of that sense of the fitness of things which we call good taste. Thus in his personal habits he is singulary pure; he never tastes liquor, never has used tobacco, never has seen play at theater and never has dealt pack of cards; a remarkable record fora Southerner. But when he opens his lips, his language, although without positive profanity (except when quoting other men's.) is often so grating to polite ears that it saves sensitive lis
 teners from bushes only because it irresistby provokes to laughter. He confesses that his chief natural gift is in piling epithets upon the heads of scoundrels. He knows no pleasure equal to discovering some new rascal, or some new rascality of an old ofepder, and printing the name and facts in capital letters in the next Knoxville Whig. But he is man whom thorough New England training, moral and in- tellectual, would have built up into dgnitied impressive, and splendid character. He is one Of many men in the South, made of natures best suuf whom the influence of slavery. unconscious
 y to themselves, has defrauded of their just rank in the scale of true nobility and honorable fame
 When the question arose of the Secession of Tennessee, he made an intrepid stand against it. Having thus stirred hornets nest, he had not to wait long to feel the stings. He was insulted to his face dogged ID his walks, and threatened with pistol shots. He was commanded by trait
 ors to transfer the allegiance of his paper to Jeff Davis, but indignantly refused. He was then tempted with a bribe, which he still more indig
 nantly spurned. Then his pen was smltten out of his hands. The traitors invaded his office
 stopped his press, and turned his press room into machine shop for boring rifles to aim at loyal hearts, Still continuing to show his personal allegiance to the Union, he was hunted out of Knoxville, and driven to take refuge in the wastes of the Smoky mountains, where he shot bears and wild turkeys, and slept on blanket on the bare ground. Meanwhile, without his knowledge, his wife procured from Richmond pass to permit him to retire from the state.- This fact, being communicated to him in his se- Cluueu uI0ullIdiu ItGlcdt, boSh eO Knoxville, where, as soon as he showed his face, he was seized, in violation of the pledge, thrown into jail, and kept in loathsome confinement for three months. -4.sa- ... ..-.-. During his stay in the prison, almost every day a cart with a coffin drove to the door, and some victim was taken out to be hung. The | prisoners none of whom were charged with any other offence than loyalty to the Union, seldom had days, and sometimes not an hours notice l when the cart would call, or for whom. MT. Brownlow, after fully expecting to be hung, and after preparing speech to be delivered on the gallows, was finally ordered out of confinement, and out of the Confederacy. ....... | At Nashville, while on his way to the North, he met Andrew Johnson:- It was singular meeting. The two men had been bitter enemies for twenty-five years, never speaking to one an other in all that time. The quarrel arose out of the partisan warfare waged over the names Of General Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Ad- ans; Johnson siding with Jackson, and Brown low with Adams. But at Nashville the two men met face to face, each offered to the other his right hand, both shed tears, neither spoke a word, and instantly separated, mutually recon ciled It was honorable to both men-the grudge of a life time melted away by one good act of mutual magnanimity! e., ...- | ..a..
 These are the two men who now represent be- fore the nation the spirit and temper of the pee pie of East Tennessee That mountainous coun- try is guarded by hardy race accustomed to toll, owning few slaves eager disputants in po-
 tica struggles, and proudly jealous of their civ il rights. Unlike the other portions of the state where slavery has more completely corrupted the people, labor is held honorable, and laziness despised. .s,- .ss.E ..,t..t t.-. fl
 Johnson, like Brownlow, is a man who has grown up with loyal respect for hard work As Brownlow came from one of the "second families of Virginia" Johnson came from a sim liar family in North Carolina. He was tailor. Think of it; the military governor of a slave state having been tailor, and not cavalier L. He walked as young man, across the mountains into East Tennessee, carrying his needles and scissors in pack over his shoulder. He could not read, but soon married good woman who taught him how He bent over his seams in the day time, and over his books at night. Join.
 ing debating society, he soon began the art oi thinking on his legs In due time he went to
 Nashville, first as Legislator, and afterwards as
 governor, returning home in the intervals of
 public business to make jackets and trowsers fol
 an honest living. The town of Greenville among , the mountains still shows the sign, Andrew Johnson, Taller" Shortly after rising from the tailoris bench to the governors chair, an early , friend who had been blacksmith. became Judge , Pepper, chief justice of the state The govern ' or made with his own hands a suit of clothes
 and presented them to the judge, and the judge made with his own hands 6 shovel and tongs and presented them to the governor The SC , cret of the steadfast loyalty of Bust Tennesses lies in one fact: The people own few slaves, ant