The national Republican., 1866-07-18

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Z, .u,. s.P. HANSOOM,, EDITOR.
WEDNESDAY, noRRINe..,. .:::;JULY 10. 1855.
DROWNLOW'N SCRIPTURE
20 CAS- fsr this Mo-ss. We cot not what hes become
e hioy' '--kHssrsis Whis. B
.Aud when the people say thaA Mosss delayed tn
sans doun ont Of the Moant, The people gathered
themselvss together unto Aaron and ssid unto him
Up, make US gods witch shall 70 before u', for a.
for this Mosss, the msn that brought US up out Of
ths land OF Egyps, ~ wdt not what has become Of
him ~-Exodus xxxii,
80 "Aud Aar~a said unto them, Break of the golden
sar-rtaes shirh are In the ears Of your ~ive. OF
'yo.r sons and Of your d'ash''r'' and bring them
"And b. received them at their hsnds and fash-
iot cd It With craving tool after he had made 1t
dp,ohen calf; and they ssid, these be thy gods U
I-ras, Witch brought thee up out of tho land Of
i'Ani the ord s.id unto Mo,s. Go; get thee
down. far thy people which thou b. onHhisst out Of
IN. lsnd VI Esypt have corrupted themselves" -
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wax hot. Thou tnow.s the people that they
set misohst&-h ~. ..
II the editors Of the Knoxville Whig, and
other blatant newspapers, who have fancied
themselve to be witty in quoting BRowSLow's
Knoxville Scripture, had read the text and
reflected moment upon its bearing upon
the Radicals, they would not have brought il
forward at the present time. But since they
have been unwise enough to do so, and to
put themselves in the shoes Of the people
whose hearts were set on mischief. they ought
not to refuse to stand in the pillory they have
selected. As figure Of speech, land 1t was
one Of great force and beauty The FREsr
DENT once, in Tennessee, offered to IN assem-
blsnce Of slaves to become their MosEs, 10
lead them out Of captivity, il they would oh.
serve his sayings and behave themselves ac-
cordingly. 1t turned out in the course oi
human events that he was called away from
Tennessee, and out Of their immediate sight,
to preside over the Executive Department ol
the Government here in Washington. III
tais exalted position he was called upon to
extend his supervisory care over the whole
country-over country dis ordered and
torn by sanguinary war, and threatened with
general anarchy in consequence Of the mad
ness Of the Radicals, both North and South,
who were opposing every salutary measure
instituted by him to bring about reconcilia-
ton and peace. In the midst Of his labors
to re-inspire all the people with proper re-
spect for the Constitution and Laws, his old,
halEcrazy neighbor, BRowNLow, deemed il
pithv and cunning to retort upon this pas.
sage in his Tennessee speech by the employ.
ment Of the garbled paraphrase above
quoted.
1t was thought to be SO very apropos that
q all the hard-sbell Baptists and soit-shell
Methodists Of the BRowSLow stamp pitched
their tunes to its key, so that it has been
barked by every ringtail and tslIyho in the
country. 1t is said that HoRAcE MAYNARD
was so disgusted with the performance that
he suggested to BRowNLow that the dignity
Of the gubernatorial Office he was holding re-
quired him to " call off his dogs" but thai
FoRNEY said everything was fair in politics
and the clamor must be kept up. Even
Senator NYE said it was good enough Scrip
ture for existing political purposes So salt
SrEvxSs and WADE,who believe, like Brown
low, in the efficacy of vulgar wit
As the radicals have chosen this passage
LII W tuty COn-
ceive to be the present political condition o,
the country, we take up the glove and NEE,
them with their own weapon. Being " set on
mischief" the Israelites, whom Moses was
carefully leading out Of the land of bondage
back to their fatherland, took advantage o.
his temporary absence to demonstrate then
corruption. by lapsing back into idolatry
Being "a set on mischief" faithless portion
OF the American people of the BRowNLov
type, whom President JOHNSON was leadin,
back from their wanderngs into the time
honored paths of patriotism, constit utiona
order, wisdom and peace. have taken az
vantage Of his elevation to the Presidency Il
demonstrate their corruption by setting W
new political doctrines respecting the Gov
ernment,, contrary to the teachings Of III,
fathers and the express provisions Of the Con
stitution. Longing for the flesh pots" from
which they gorged themselves during tn,
war, they are unwilling that there shall b,
any more peace in the country. And the,
are determined that SO far as in them liei
r there shall be no end to the jobbery snd plum
ueT hTiSbB Out VI tuo coh'ructs iOr suppltl
furnished through the officers Of the Freed
mems Bureau TO perpetuate to themselve'
and their children these means Of obtainin,
for their own use the funds of the Govern
ment, wrung from honest people by Il,
severest taxation, they shamelessly avov
themselves to be initiating the children o.
Isrsel at the time Of their encampment a,
the base Of Mount Sinai. The best excust
they have to offer for it is: As for this
MosEs we vot not what is become Of him."
II they are content with the position they
have assumed for themselves, we will guar
anty that The PREsIDEsr will not complain
OF the position they have assigned to him.
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