The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-05-02

years, never had controversy. Psfson |
-Brownlow never troubled us, and we have |
TOO keen sense Of propriety and stlf.fe-
spect TO say hard things about him now
when he is absent in the flesh. But as
he yet has many followers and admirers in
this region, men who believe that when
they die their immortal souls will 90. to.
Brownlow wherever he may be. there can
be no improperly in letting the.anxious
| public know what he is up TO since he en-
tered the land of Lincoln. For the last
few years 20 man labored with more zeal
20 keep up, increase, and intensity the
antagonism, prejudice and hate between
the two sections, which resulted in de-
stroying, first the Constitution, and then
the Union, and in bringing upon the
country the terrible evils under which it
is now agonizing in every direction, from
the centre all round to the sea- No man
has ever been half so lavish in indiscrini.
mate abuse of the Northern people. In
deed, so bitter and deep.rooted apparent
ly were his prejudices in that direction,
that the infinitely internal Yankee
was standing text in his paper, and
Northern women were universally regaya,
ed by birA as destitute Of virtue and trvufef
: as fit subjects for his prurient pen. And
: yet, unless the journals of that region lie
: about him, as they do about almost eve
: cry thing else, this same man is today
S in their midst, pandering TO their hatred
o of the South, and exhibiting himself to
y fanatical muliitudes at the cheap rate Of
G fifty cents sight, children and niggers
half price"
The following from the CINCINNATI Ctm,
q nerciai, will show his friends and admirers
r. in East Tennessee, how the Doctor is
:. toting on among his ncw-found worship
pers:-
- From the Cincinnati Commercial.
l. Parson Bro,onlotc at the Methodist BOOK
Ne Concern.-M Mountaineering Person Brown.
o. low met some thirty Methodist preachers
Is at the Methodist book concern, and made
Il brief speech lie knew only three
e methodist preachers who were loyal
q Bishop Soule condemned the rebellion;
10 he did not dare do more, because he
d would be hung, old as he is. The bishop
v. had to swear to support the Cohfederacy.
>, Mr. Brownlow said the Southern churches
e were ruined for good. Union people
70 would not hear Secession preachers, nor
r. Secessonists those who were loyal.
st lie, the speaker, owed his escape to
q: The protests of his friends in East Ten
cd nessee, (which is Union five to onc) and
ds to the political civilian leaders of Ten
,st nessee, saying if he (Brownlow) was kept
| - a., -, L.
- feed. His wife and children were de
II tanned as hostages for his good conduct ;
re He told his wife to make up her mind I,
be executed, as he should certainly speal
and write against the Confederacy.
The worst men, he remarked, in TIL,
he Confederacy are Methodist, Baptist, Pres
byterian and Episcopalian preachers.
OF They drink and swear week days, an;
so preach Sundays. When they became Sc
nd cesh they bid farewell to honesty. trutl
I'm and decency. The Confederacy original
ed in lying, stealing and perjury. Floys
ne did the stealing, the common masses tn
y" lying. and fourteen Senators from tlf
m cotton States the peljury-tlo latter elias
in while retaining their seats in the Unite,
=, States Senate, and making a pretense O
Gu observing their oaths, but at night, till L
on o'clock, holding secret meetings, sending
ri dispatches to their respective States /
h. pass ordinances of secession, TO seize forts
A ETC. al
Nv Among the instances illustrating TIL
IL spirit prevailing among the southern cler
O gv, Mr.. Brownlow said that the pastor Q
vn the first Presbyterian church IN Knox
l., vile called union prayer meeting b
-. -. pray that Burnside's fleet might sink an,
ci- the blockade be raised. The same minis
OF ter had said that he would rather use
to Bible printed and bound in hell than on
- from the North. Also, that Jesus Chris
p. was born on southern soil, and that all hi
Ut apostles were southern men, except Ju
das Iscariot, who was northern man. =
This was said openly, from his pulpit, OF
Sunday. .,
ms Mr.. Brownlow is Of opinion that Their
of are better men in the place where tn
=, Presbyterian parson looked for his mex
~ edition Of the Bible, than the southern
On leaders. He had seen good men takel
ed out of his prison in knots. and one b
al one and hung-fathers and their sons
20 He was of opinion that it was time t.
vi hang on our side.
tx Mr. Brownow minated his intention
re-, of going back to Knoxville to re-estat
: lish his paper, which ne had edited TO
ia twenty-five years, and which had NOR
~ subscribers than all the papers in Eastern
nd Tennessee. a.
Ras> The Federal Congress is quarrel
~ ling over the Confiscation Bill. Old maj
- Crittenden opposes it. The following ar
~ his remarks, as reported in Washington
ais paper:
rs, Mr.. Crittenden, of Kentucky said tn,
rs, President had no powers only thos,
is, granted him by Congress. He regarded
\, all these measures unconstitutional. be
~, cause it authorizes the President to man
aq unit every slave. in the Union. .SucI
power is not given to him by the C6ns1i
nd tuition. The President has sworn to adj
az minister the laws. If judge dies the
~ President has no right TO preside, If the
clerk dies the President cannot issue bro
cesses. If the sheriff refuses to act. the
President has no right to arrest. In ali
Els these cases the President has a right to
on appoint and fill vacancies according Il
ad the Constitution. His main argument
,;s was the elevation of the public mind by
- the possession of properly and the re-
its spect and recognition of rights and prom
erty. By the laws of England and Amer
lea the dearest rights of man are those
of his property, and he could not be de