Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-04-27
SPEAKER HEIsKELL's REPLY TO
GOV. BROWNLOW---A SCArHING
RETORF.

! From the Knoxville Commercial
! Mr. EDIToR: The following appeared in Brown
/ lows Whia, of April 18th, 1866:
! DESUNCIATToN OF Gov. BRowELOw.-While
Governor Brownow was addressing his fellow
citizens at the court house in this citysthe other
| day. +. 5. Hcskell remarked to a squad of men
| in the court house. that certain declaration
I made by the Governor, was id lie, and Gov
| ernor Brownlow 4 eU u 10 Be such
We have not space this week to to reply TO this
grave charge Of the ex-oPponent Of the Union
agree that do justice to the subject in next
issue, pledge them to retire from the editorial
chair of the oldest paper in Tennessee, to the
Again IL the next issue. of April 18th, near the
close OF labored article, the Wig says:
We think we have adduced sufficient evidence
10 justify Governor Brownlow in what he SAID and
satisfy every impartial and candid man that M.
Haskell has told "A did lie >"
NOW, Mr.. Editor will you please give the fol-
lowing place in your columns, as IT Is due TO my
self aud my friends that should have hearing:
THE BROAD BURLEsQUE."
d" A hungry, lean-faced villain:
mere autonomy, mountebank;
A threadbare Juggler, and a fortune teller:
needy, bollow-eyed, sharp-loOking wretch;
A living dead man"
The occasion of this publication is an article in
the Rev. Governor Brownlow's paper of the 18th
inst. 1t will hardly be expected that in replying
10 a profane and vulgar blaekgu2rd, the same
cOurtesies will be observed, as are due to gen
tleman. An apology TO the public may be nee
essary when any man Of decent instincts and re-
spectacle associations even alludes TO wretch 50
base and disgusting; and yet, all men who have
any knowledge of the life and character Of this
clustering. hypocritical, mendaciOus P0rSot
Brownlow, know that the poltroon is only eneour-
aged by the contemptous silence of those whom
he abuses.
lie complains that when he made his famou.
speech at the court house in Knoxville, 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 majority of
Southern journals he complained that said
to persons then surrounding me, that the above
declaration of Gov. BrownlOw was q ID lie,
and the Governor kneV a tobe such
Now, first Of all. wish 20 deny emphatically
that used the expetve id. No gentleman of
my acquaintance will assert that such is my habit.
/ have never been addicted to interlarding my
conversation with protane epithets, and every
decent citizen of the town or county, by whom |
have been known any time during my residence
in Tennessee will attest the truth OF this asser-
ton.
| did denounce some of the assertions of this
Reverend blackguarG and fOul-mOuthed viilher,
as lies and, perhaps this one among them. He
has been liar always-his whole life is lie, and
now when he stands palpable and shameful
parody, caricature, broad burlesque on all
possible Governors is it strange that he should
lie? His boastful paragraph in the preceding is
sue of his dirty sheet, 9th lnst.,l In which he
promises, referring to my denial of his statements
to retire from the editorial connection with the
oldest newspaper in the State if he should fail TO
establish his declaration to do justice to the
subject" as he expresses it, in this paper QSth
inst.) is IA bold and naked lie. He never intended
to fulfil the pledge then given. and 1t was there
fore a lie in advance. Like nlne-tenths of all
such stuff, which constitutes the warp and wool
Of all his editorials, it was the clustering of a
bully, the empty swagger Of a cOwardly braggart,
the eXpedlent OF
q" mad-cap ruiiian, and a swearing jack
That thinks, with oaths, 10 face the matter out.
and so by believing balderdash he tries to show
himself of weight and proves that he is
nothing but dolt, a humbug.
Thou wearst a lions hide dofT it for shame,
And hang a calls skin on those rccreant limbs"
In his issue of the 18th the promised article-hs
labored attempt TO vindcate hlmseit-ls a lie.
lie heads it " THE PROOF in capitals, thus
making the very caption a 6ldtuu lie. lie charges
that as a class the newspapers at the South are
disloyal, and that hostility TO the Government
and Union men, characteTlZe the editorials ot a
MINORITY If the Southern J0RrHdts. Then, after
quoting from precisely four newspapers, all pub
llshed in Tennessee, and all infinitely more true
to the Union than the Reverend Parson Brown
low, and the whole matter extracted from the four
papers amounting to only about htrfy-s'gH Aaes
in his own filthy sheet be says: We think we
have adduced sufficient evidence to justify Gov.
BrOwnlOY in what he said, and satisfy every i'm
partial and candid man that Mr. Heiskel has
told id lie" This is the unbushing impu-
dence of a deliberate and malicious liar, or the
gibberish of an addle -pated fool. Not less than
three of the papers quoted published in Nash
tiile and The other in Memphis A bout thirteen
lines or a full one third of all he extracts from |
these four papers, have no reference, and make |
no allusion 10 the United States Government nor |
to Union men.
Nine lines Of the quoted matter relate to the |
present Legislature of Tennessee, and four lines |
more are concerning MaynaTd's electiOngerng |
tour for the Radical opponents of President |
Johnson, in Connecticut. And yet this malicious |
Parson-this lying editOr-this parody of |
GovernOr-this incarnation of all yilitcatiOn and |
of filthy abuse, has the audaclty ard |
icndish etirOnteTy say in tine face of the world,
that he " thinks he has adduced sufficient evil |
dCnce to Justify him in charging majority of |
he Ia WI d
the Government and Union men, pronounce |
his statement lie in its utterance, and lie in |
its intention, His whole article shows clearly |
that this thing, that the Knoxville Wig, now 50 |
ready in calling GOrerHDr BrownlOw, and little |
back, so chuckled oyer rs Doctor BTownlow, that /
the people in bitter sarcasm and with contempt, |
speak of as P,rsoa Browniow. deliberately and |
consciously "misquUtCs TO lie, and IS Lying by |
The Louisville Journal is right in
saying that whenever he tPaTsOu BrOwnlOwD sits |
down to abuse anybody, lies cluster around his
pen like bue-bOttle flies around a horses ears in
August. But alter all, this article of the parodic
Governor il as decent Il one n the TX chaplain
a. the broad bullcsque can make. 1t Is n fair
sample OF the " caricature Of all possible Cover
nors.
"i,usoa Bro,ruiorr" says Mr.. Heiskel has told
q id lie A Minister of the Gospel. "CleT-
Preacher of Righteousness, Her
aid of the Cross Man of God" so called makes
this shameful exposure of himself before the
world! Ant tbtS is az keep5Hp with all his
former life. He has always been wicked and
DTOtduc his lie has been spent IN curSlng, Nitu
peratlon and low, coarse, vulgar personal abuse
Of better men than himself, only because they
were better. lie has always been an IshmaeliIe, |
m uublushlng hypoCritc and a venal BLACKBOARD. |
lie has never published paper. political or reli-
giuus, that could be introduced into family with
)ut pOllutIng 1t. lie has been dIsturber of the
peace and disOrgaulZcr of social harmony in
every community that has been cursed with his
residence. To traduce, villity, detame and slam
Ter, has been his ruling passion and great work.
In his yndictye tcrocity, he not only persccutes
hp IN a. IF hrt
cnOm on all that object ; connections breathing
MS blasting breath on the uutarnished character
If pure women. and Sc 'atchug with his hveua
laws into the asylum OF the dead. As an editor
ne has been the retailer of all tue scandal and
gossip of evil minded persons Of his vicuage, the
'chicle of Ibcller. and the depository of sple-
lctIc slime.
Asa professor Of rei zion be is n disgrace 10
christianity. As a Min Ster of the GOSPEL he Is
IS base ~ Simon MaguS and when his fellow
eryauiS refuse TO submit to his dictation, "hc
gilumniates them as hCrctics and SchSmatics: ap-
lilies 10 them the scOurIge of the tongue, even
harp and bitter words. prostitutes the ordinan-
cS of christian discipline by communicating
those who are of the household of faith " and |
yheu circumstances permit, calls in the aid Of the
iyll power 10 attack the property and injura the
persons OF those who will not submit TO his uSurped
authority \ es, aS amlllster. his whole charac- |
or and conduct is a lie 10 God. and lie to man. |
Contempt Is the only ser timeut any one can feel !
or him in this relation; und who that knows this |
grctched creature, does not fear that of all the !
irtims of everlasting shame in the regions of re-
ne VIII bG the most pltlaDlr, yet the
east pitIed Of all.
As a Governor we take the picture painted by
'rcnticc Ii is truer than Photograph. lie
parody, q caricature, broad burlcsque on all |
Governors" lie is a modification to the honor |
t the State humiliation TO the pride Of the |
eoplc; a shame to honest and orderly men, and
Solacc, "A comfort and refuge TO assaSsins and ,
lurdcrers.
10 avoid nauseating the public further at pre-
emit will omit any illusion to this "moustroSi- |
Us" notions of diSoyaly. ! will ask no qucs-
IONS about his fidelity Union man in 1861. ,
will not inquire if he sounded about that |
mc, or who held him to the Union track :" nor
nh / dcscant on the terrible Suierings of this
ustrious martyr in the Knoxville Jail Of the
rivatiouS he encountered in the Northern States, {
laking abolition speeches; neither will | enter
pom the CulOgy of his disinterested and self | ,
lcriicing labors chaplain in Ohio, nor say a
ugc word about the " secret of the FreCdmcn's
bureau Bill and things. For the present | only ,
* the reader TO contemplate the " Broad Bur
sSquc." and must deSist, for my subject is stag
ant, stale and sinking.
I. $. HEIsEELL.
BLACK MAIL.
rom the Cincinnati Enquirer