, 1862-05-24
:Tbt Grihtttte.
BRDWNLOW ON REBEL HEEx-

From the New York Tribune, Goth. !

FROM Inc New 1QrE IElb4nG. X1tl.
a Tery large audience Has gathered In the |
Cooper Institute last evening, to hear Par5on !
BrownloT on the 1rre1Isious Character of the |
Rebellion. The lecture was given before the |
Young Mems Christian Association, The Rev. |
DR.. Hitchcock presided. ,- /
Patson BroWnlow was received with re- |
peated rounds Of applause. He said that he /
should be briefcr than usual Of necessity. He |
would, RS On a1l other occasions, make no ef- |
tort at display, but state facts Of which he !
had q personal knowledge, trying to avoid a |
Tsrstion OF ne app; speech ne 1s,1vxFsa st she
il all his addresses, while he took care
to speak to the audience before him,
be spoke also SO that when reported his |
friends and enemies in Dixie shonld know !
and see that he said nothing against rebellion
in the North, which he would not say, and
say nothing here that he would not saY to the |
V{lest secessionist which God In his proEi- /
de1ce, mysterious providence, permitted to |
live [Langbter and applanse-j He intended |
Of copies Of his book. and they should read |
il, and tremblc in their boots as they read In |
presenting q view Of their irreligion, he would |
not look at 1t through q pair of jaundiced |
spectacles else he should present a cotton |
Minerva, sprung from the bFain m OF the boast
looked at nsthing North they did it with q
cotton-stalk telescope, They had made In
the South this Institution Of slavery the occa-
sion Of bringing about all this fuss, md all
this dcri1try. They had doneso at the South.
He said "Fe Of the South he vas prepat-
tion. 4 fuss they wanted and a fuss they
would have. and be hoped in Gods name they
would hare a fuss to their hearts content be-
lore they got through While they were all
anxious1y Watching at the sitting and the fail-
ure of the Peace Congress at Washington, did
they not remember 4 dispatch Of Pryor, say
ing " We can get the Crittenden Compromise.
but We don't mean to take any compromise"
Judge Douglas overheard Mason say the same
thing. Fourteen Southern Senators, repre-
sentlng seven Cotton States took solemn oaths
on the Holy ETansely that they would sup
port the Constitution Of the United States.
During the day these men went through tha
torms of That support, and at night they plot
ted TO overthrow the Goye1ntnent. These in-
famous Williams ought to have their tongues
cut out by the root, and be hung on & gal1ows
as high SIS HaI1an. This rebe!llon-where, in
Gods name, should he begin with It's frre1ig-
ion? Laughttr.1 1t began with purjury
and stealing. They were going. down South
the way Wards ducks went In the olden time
hellwaId. The Uuionist6 would not hear the
seeessionfsts preach Or pray, and the seces-
| sionists would not hear what they cs11ed 4
| Union-ehrieker preach and pray. Tile tests
| for preaching the Gospel down South Were-
| Can yon lie without any conscientious scru-
| pies: Can you drink mean whisky By the
| quart? Can you boast Of your ability to lead
men on to victory In the Rebel army? Many
! Of his audience we're no doubt Episcopalians.
| One Of their Episcopal bishops, the Right
| Rev Hon. Major Gen. Leoniaas Polk, laugh
teri who had q cooked hat, and epaulettes on
lis Shoulders, and :, sword hsngIug by hia l
drinking mean whisky BY the quart, and
taking the Daue Of God in vain; that is what
the rebellion has brought him to. The Me1ho.
dist Preachers in the South were entitled to
| more conhiderat On than those Of any Other
among them. They we're nearly au without
any exception, rasca1s. [Great laughter and
ap5lause.l They had all pitched in, and when
bnt the other day they held an annual confer.
ence ffty mlies above where reside, in ths
town Of Greenville, on the railroad, tho ven
who split the turkey in two when the genera
conference was held in 1S4444, presided. I know
al about that, for electioneered nard for hin
in 1882. They were holding an annual confer
enee, and faction :ofprrachera, to distinguish
themselves, to render themselves more accept
able to secession families in which they Wer'
boarding, brought him upon the carpet, he q
t home some fifty miles distant; toT If he hat
! been there, it would have been abont The las
thing they won1d have done No Parliamcn
tary ru1ee or Bishop Andrc~'s could hav'
ehoked him down! when they mounted him
I
NIT Grctk then came the tug Of war. The.
denounced him and lis paper, and cfamore'
| for hanging him, and such ciapping as va
then there never Was before, and the Blsho
tnjo.ed it as we'll as anybody elsa
we'll as he had enjoyed the hospitalitie
Of his house, for he had been there many times
Fountain E. Fitch, IN old Presiding Elder G
The Conference, 4 man who had been in ever
Genrral Conference for so fears, who went t
!, Europe with Bishop sonle, who had oae q
Two tons in the rebel army, was chaplain Q
aNash1ille regiment, and he made it a practic
to get drunk, carrying bottle with him; b
ur..nk to exccss and swpre profane1y, bu
| preached every Sunday faithfu1Iy to the so
: ule1a, and in his discourses told Them actuail
that the cause in which they were engaged
! lighting for the independence
the South, fighting to Keep back the Abo2ftio
, hordes of the North, and to repuIse the horde
| Of Lincoln, was 20 good aud so holy a cause tI1:
| if they dl. d In this cause they would be saved
heaven, even without grace. [Great 1aughte
/ Baldwin Of the Methodist Church, Senate
{ Pickcns being in front OF him, knelt down,
- !. WAS the Methodist custom, one Sunday,
pray: 40 Lord he said, tive thank Tht
: :or having innugurated this revolution.
: Judge Pickens rose up in his seat, and takIn
+ his itat, says be, ''G-d l-n such a prayer
hcn!'' [Lond 1aughter.l A reverend Of IL
Bal tut denomination fLis name escaped OF
reporter, the reporters table having bet
placed at great distance from the speaker
| at the head Of the Baptist publishing mouse
y Nashville, when the Union army appFoachs
4 Nashville, and he found bis neck In danger
. the halter, took 10 his heels, and as he n
running ont Of Nashville nine or ten miles
hour, wss goiugfn nuder flag Of truce. !
is now heading a:regi1nent Of rebels, asnl1
them with pixies
A gentleman CDR. Pearson, President
n, Co1unlbia College; Kentucky give an acco1
of Dr.. Martin OF your town. He graduated
the Union Theological Seminary f1cre' In M
Yolk.
: Pa1ron Brown1ow-You didn't fully grad
I. ate him at your college; he is now tahlug Il
SONS npder the devil to my personal knot
edge. TGrent ap1lause.l He Is New Scht
Presbyterian, a resident OF Knoxville Uo
i. he bccanae . seceesion1st, he was gcutlema
aud regarded him as q Cnri.tiah Minister, a
have 50 spoken Of him But allow me to
IL. that whenever secession enters into man
~. the South, whether priest or Leyite,
hr devil accompanies it, and ,you may !.
pcct him to do tho works of the devil ale
IRON that time forward and forevermo
n MH. Maynard, our representative il congFc
IT, is all cider in the Ncw-School Presbytori
Church, q scholar, and gentleman. He
no s<,oner lett in disguise to make his y
ae through to take his seat in Congress, than
= Rey: Joseph F. Martin made act speech,
j. ing through the forma1i1ies of taking tex
| pIE8EHEQ Au outrageous 6tInous Auu ptal}El
Outrageous prayer, that his wicked aud
ha1Iowed '1ackB might never again be seen
kpown in Knoxville The mortified wife
II. ! MayDsrd, who is in this neighborhood,
who is G1ahy, and 60 regarded. in every %
nd Of the word, an intelligent, charitable, Ch
tian lady, shedding tears on that occasion, +
up, ann left the house and journeyed ho1
[eE AID a1though she vas driven ont bus q
weeks ago, with my rife and children,
has, to her honor and credit. never dtsgra
~ her lame by wishing his vile sanctuary
l. had behaved ina nean, sueakfug, contetu
- lie nia1ner, he made her visit and apofogi;
n saying, ~ didn't want to do It, but my eit
~ made me do it. and had to do 1t Or 1ose-
N salary and my place. What do you thinl
= devil like thats We'll, sir; that is On
your New School gentry. Nov for the
U School. The pastor OF the Old School Chr
,lla in Knoxville, 3 man Of education
IL fair talent, and until secession broke
but a snort time before left ha had spe
c.:Y occasion to preach upon the suhjcct Of Sc
sats sion. and attracted the attention OF a Ii
81: IL crowd Ue made the bold and open decI
lste | tion that Jesus Christ was Southarner, b
: q upon 6oushe1n Eol (Laughtef.l he di
In good faith be did 1t in sincerity, howe
L. not in truth; he said; =" Jesus Christ n
n were his disciples and aposslea,s all ex
Xxx Judas, and lie was a N.r' hern nan. La
teri Holding mp Bible. he eaId-I pres
be Has sober, but would mt guarantee
81 ou|d sooner, my brethren, annuunc
c. you Il text for discussion from the pulpit
81 Of Bible ora Tcstament that knew
been printed in he'll, than out Of Bible
= Tc4tament that vas :, ,gs printed North Il u y
liz. | - =. ~. .r..,,, tho Enrttu- nav nj ,