Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-11-04
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, / ErOm tne Cllc2EO IlInes, OcloDef 80
Parson Brownlow, the obscene, filthy. profane
blasphemous old vagsbond, whom the sbslition
lists have brought into this State as a missionar1
Of bad politics and foul morals, denied, with
show Of virtuous indignation, in his harangu,
in Metropolitan Hall the other night, that be hsC
received pay for the abolition stump speeches
which he had been making at several county SO
ricultural fairs in Michigan. We quote hi
denial:
have been speaking in Michigan fOuI
weeks. have spoken in the prominent cOun
| ties and towns. l was not speaking for money
l was invited 10 speak at the State and county
/ agricultural fairs. The frat two msn who invit
! ed me were Colonel kioben, the Presidsut o.
/ the State fair, who is Democrat. and another
| gentleman who invited ne 20 JOnesViile, who
was slss DemoeEst. About half of them
| were D-mOcTe snd about half Republican.
Politics had nothing TO do with il. Tney said
nothing to me about politics. They invited me
70 daIlE or speech from 2 stand in the inclesure
OF eight or ten different fairs They made it q
paying thing for the fairs. Most Of them were
deeply in debt. The State fsir had not been out
OF debt for eight years until we held that last
annual meeting, when they paid off and had
some LETT FOR the FIRST time. They sold Il 600
tickets the day 1 spoke there, for twenty-five
cents each. 50 ai the different counties they
sold largely. They paid my expenses On the
rairead and my tavern bills, and treated me
very kindly. The funds were for the benefit Of
the society
" This is an explicit statement. Il was not
speaking for money" said hai '' they paid my
expenses on the railroad and ny tavern bills,
snd treated me- very kindly The funds were
Tor the benefs Of the socisty." Now no will
convict him Of falsshood By the voluntary testi-
mony Of ons of the most respectablo and ssd-
msoie citizszs of Marshall, Calhoun county,
Michigan
- Marshall, Mich, October ., 1862.
To the Editor Of the Chicago Tines:
nave Just seen copy Of the Chicago TTi-
6AHe OF the y n inss, containing the address OF
Parton BrownloW, a. Chicago, at Metropolitan
Hall, in which be makes the statement thas be
had been speaking for four weeks IL Miehisan-
that ne was not speaking for mOney-that the
funds vent for the use and benefit Of the fairs
Now do not personally know whether he wss
paid ct the State fair, though have understood
be was but I DO know that he s0as paid 300
and his expenses, out Of the funds sccruing rsm
the fair, for his services in delivering the agri-
cultural address il Marshall, before the Calhoun
county Agricultural Society For ths truth of
this refer to Ar. 4 o Hyde, the treasurer of
the society. And l understand from Mr Hvds
that this was as low q sun IS DIS services had
been rendered for a. three or five different places
II tAlS o&te durlng t2At Heek,-my impression I
is At five places. s. that instead Of tie 'funds'
going 'tor The bsnshs Of the socississ, several !
hundred dollars, a. least, vsnt for shs personal |
use and beneft Of PaTsSn Brounlow.
a. l am truly yours
We omit Tho name Of tbs writer, but any. ons |
may Learn it on application q. this Office
SO this shameless old incendiary is q common !
lisr, withsL TIE truth is that he was brought /
TO hichiEsn by the blood letter, Chandler, and |
P,dded his obscene and profa1e vu'gayiiy at /
a price per day. We have it from many OF the 1
places visited by him that his speeches, from the
disgust which theJ provoked, were really iDju- |
rious to the abolition cause and that the Dsmoc- |
rscy would have been glsd to have him remain /
in the State but for his corrupIing influence upon
the public morals
It is mOnsy thAi has brought him 70 Illinois. |
be has sold himself out 20 the men whom q few /
months sgo, he declared ought 70 be hanged /
upon the same tTss WITH the leaders Of secession
as the only cure for the rebellion Hs is making /
merchandise OF his Tennessee martyrdom, much |
Of which mSrtyrdOm IS no doubt bogus, Of bis
own manufacture. He is as false to common
integrity As he is to common decercy.