The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-05-02
Parson Brownlow at the North.

too Keen sense oil propuety ana sell-Ie-
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, Ilen who believe that when
they die there immortal souls will 60 TO .
Brownlow wherever he NAV 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 1
few years no man labored with more zeal |
to 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 indiscIim-
mate abuse of the Northern people. In
deed, so bitter and deeprooted apparent
" were his prejudices in that direction,
that the infinitely internal Yankee"
was standing text in his paper, and
Northern women were universally regard
ed by him as destitute Of virtue and treated
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
in their midst, pandering to their hatred
of the South, and exhibiting himself to
fanatical multitudcs at the cheap rate OF
fifty cents sight, children and niggers
half price"
The following from the CINCINNATI Com
m,ercial, will show his friends and admirers
in East Tennessee how the doctor" is
toting on among his new-found worship
pers:-
From the Cincinnati Commercial.
Pqrson Bro,cnloD at the Methodist Book
Concern. Monday morning Parson Brown
low met some thirty Methodist preachers
at the Methodist book concern, and made
a brief speech, lie knew only three
methodist preachers who were loyal
Bishop Soule condemned the rebellion;
he did not dare do more, because he
would be hung, old as he is. The bishop
had toswear to support the Confederacy.
Mr.. Browhlow said the Southern churches
were ruined for good. Union people
would not hear Secession preachers, nor
Secessonists those who were loyal.
He, the speaker, owed his escape to
.he protests of his friends in East Ten
nessee, (which is Union five to one) and
> to the political civilian leaders of Ten
nessee, saying if he (Brownlow) was kept,
twelve of their leaders would be sacri-
feed. His wife and children were de-
tanned as hostages torh good conduct"
He told his wife TO make up her mind to
be executed, as he should certainly speak
and write against the Confederacy.
The worst men, he remarked, in the
Confederacy are Methodist, Baptist, Pres
byterian and Episcopalian preachers
They drink and swear week days, and
preach Sundays. When they became Sc
cesh they bid farewell to honesty, truth
and decency. The Confederacy originat-
ed in lying, stealing and perjury, Floyd
did the stealing. the common masses the
lying, and fourteen Senators from the
cotton States the perjury--the latter class
while retaining thor seats in the United
States Senate, and making a pretense OF
observing their oaths, but at night, till II
o'clock, holding secret meetings, sending
dispatches to their respective States to
pass ordinances of secession, TO seize forts,
etc.
Among the instances illustrating the
- .
gy, Mr. Brownlow said that the pastor OF
the first Presbyterian church IN Knox
vile called a union prayer meeting to
pray that Burnside's fleet might sink and
the blockade be raised. The same minis
ter had said that he would rather use a
Bible printed and bound in hell than one
from the North. Also, that Jesus Christ
was born on southern soil, and that all his
apostles were southern men, except Ju-
das lscariot, who was a northern man.
This was said openly, from his pulpit, on
Sunday.
Mr.. Brownlow is Of opinion that there
are better men in the place where the
Presbyterian parson looked for his next
edition Of the Bible, than the southern
leaders. He had seen good men taken
out Vi MS pIlSOu III kHOlS, anu OHG Dy
one, and hung-fathers and their sons
He was of opinion that it was time to
hang on our side.
Mr. Brownlow minated his intention
of going back to Knoxville to re-estab-
fish his paper, which he had edited for
twenty-five years, and which had more
subscribers than all the papers in Eastern
Tennessee.
B2s~ The Federal Congress is quarrel
ling over the Confscation Bill. Old man
Crittenden opposes it. The following are
his remarks, as reported in Washington
paper:
Mr.. Cri!tenden of Kentucky, said the
President had no powers only those
granted him by Congress. He regarded
all these measures unconstitutional, be-
cause it authorizes the President to man
unit every slave in the Union. Sucb