Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-05-10

Mr.. Heiskell's Reply to
Gov. Brownlow-A Sea-
thing RetOl't. o5 o.


peared in Brownlow's Wig, of
April 18th, 1866: 81
"DENUNCIATIoN OF Gov. Brown
Low.-While Governor Brownlow
was addressing his fellow-citizens
at the court house in this city the
other day, F. S. Heiskell remark
ed to a squad of men in the court
house, that certain declaration
made by the Governor, was a
id lie, and Governor Brownlow
kneao 1t to be such /?
owe have notspace this week to
reply to this grave charge of theex-
opponent of the Union candidate
for Congress. IF our readers don't
agree that we Go justice to the
subject in our next issue, we pledge
them to retire from the editorial
chair of the Oldest paper in Ten
nessee, to the shades of private life"
Again in the next issue, of April
18th, near the close of labored
article, the Wing says:pg 06
"We think we have adduced
sufficient evidence to justify Gov
ornor B1ownlow in what he said,
and satisfy every impartial candid
man that Ah'. HeishelI told a ID
lie." 5
Now, Mr.. Editor, will you please
give the following a place in your
columns, as it is due to myself
and my friends that | should have
a hearing: eli
THE 'sBRoAD BURLEsoUE."
"a hungry, lean faced villain ;a5 /.
A mere autonomy, a mountebank:
A threadbare juggler, and a fortune teller;
A needy, hollow weyed, sharp-looking wretch ;
A living dead man."
The occasion Of this publication
is an article in the Rev. Brown
lows paper of the 18th inst. 1t
will hardly be expected that in
replying to a profane and vulgar
blackguard, the same courtesies
will be observed, as are due to a
gentleman. An apology to the
public may be necessary when any
man of decent instincts and respec-
table associations even alludes to a
wretch so base and disgusting;
and yet, all men who have any
knowledge of the life and charac-
ter of this clustering, hypocriti-
cal, mendacious Parsop Brownlow,
know that the poltroon is only en-
couraged by the contemptuous ST.
llence of those whom he abuses.
He complains that when he made
his famous speech at the court
house in Knoxville, on the first
Monday in April, and declared
"that as a class, the newspapers
of the South were disloyal, and
that hostility to the Government
and Union men characterized the
editorials of a majority of South.
ern journals he complained that
/ said to persons then surround
ING me. ssthat the above declara
ton of Gov. Brownlow was q
ID He, and the Gorey7aor kaeot
1T to be sasch."
Now, first of all, l wish to deny
emphatically that | used the exple
tive id. No gentleman of my ac
ouaintance will assert that such il
my habit. Ihave never been ad
dicted tointerlarding my converse
ton with profane epithets, and ev
cry decent citizen Of the town o.
county, by whom | have beer
!; known any time during my resi-
dence in Tennessee will attest tht
truth of this assertion.
| I did denounce some OF the as
sertions of this Reverend black
guard and foul-mouthed villifier
as lies, and, perhaps this ON
among them. He has been a liza
always-his whole life is a lie, an'
now when he stands a palpabl'
and shameful parody, a carlca
ture, a broad burlesque on all pos
sible Governors" is it strange tha
he should lie? His boastful para
graph in the preceding issue o 9.
his dirty sheet, 9th inst., !
! which he promises, referring to m
t denial of his statements, to retif
from the Oldest newspaper IN ia
) State Of Tennessee if ne shonl
) fail to establish his declaratlo
f..4o Il ,,,s4.oa fo tho sllbleCt