Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1866-03-21
THE KNOXVILLE WING.
Knoxville, Tenn, March 81, 1866.
About the President and Moses.

re inquired 4 few days ago in what particular
.lr President had failed to act the Moses Of the
.H'urcd people. and suggested that Moses himself
did not bestow the right Of suffrage upon the Chill
l-,u Of Israel lead them to the promised land,
ha'. on the contrary, detained them in the wilder
moss forty years The Coored Citizen Of last week
-ospouds in the following article.
ANDREW as MOsES-A late issue Of the Com
..rris contains an article intended 10 prove that
.Ha President has already fulfilled his promise OF
being 10 the children Of Ham leader such as Moses
vss to the children Of Israel. We can not see it;
and as the point is one Of immense importance, po-
hlcally as well as theoogically. we have searched
the Scripture in reference to il. By the way We
commend to editors generally who have not been
10 Sunday-school for long time to follow our ex-
ample, and post themselves occasionally on Scrip
.nre points.
The result of our Iaborious Investigation is that
yc have become satisfied Of the truth Of the follow
ing propositions:
J. Moses and Andrew johnson differ considers
bly, more than tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee.
A. Moses was very meek; Andrew is not.
b Moses was slow Of speech; Andrew seems to
ne afflicted with chronic incontinence Of the same
He has made more speeches in the last month than
Moses did in the forty years he was leader of Is
rael
O. Moses did great many things that Andrew
has not done, and never will do
90. Moses did not do some things that Andrew is
doing.
- Andrew mas done some things that Moses did
.o, DO.
Sd. Andrew does not do some things that Moses
lid 10.
Right here, we may remark to anticipate cap
Ll5us criticism, that the seeming identity of our
propositions two and four snd three and five are
simply the result of our attempt to initiate the
5onnsonian style Of presenting argument, it
we're giving first front and then back side view
Of i. We hope We shall receive due proportion
Of such paudi.s as were showered on the veto mes
zsgo. As to those showered on the Washington
speech No sir, thank you, not any
But to our proof. Moses the genuine article,
slew an Egyptian who oppressed his bondmsn.
Moses executed signal vengeance on rebels; as
u tls case OF ko7ah and those Israelites whom the
sons of Levi slew. He didn't reconstruct them.
Moses led the children Of Israel to the borders
H. the promised land; was with them in all their
ryaudsrngs and devoted himself to their service
When Eldad and Medad did prophesy in the
amp Moses did not make stump speech against
them Andrew did against Sumner Stevens and
Wendell Phillips
Moses did not veto a Freedmens Bureau Act
out on the contrary, he enacted some laws very
similar 20 certain provisions of that act, Z. q. l.
lie divided the people and appointed rulers of
thousands and rulers OF hundreds, and rulers of if
ties. and rulers Of tens .. He enacted in the case
If euaucipated slaves, when thou sendest him
away Tree thou shalt not let him 60 away empty
bu, shall furnish MIN literally out Of thy flock, and
tHs az INV LuDI. dl4u OUT o. LuF vine press. lie
also .aac.ei. There snail be but one manner of
law rr him that is born with you and for the stran-
&C..
when the Israelites were being bitten by the
suoicn, types of our modern Copperheads, the fiery
flying serpents Moses lifted up the serpent in the
wilderness, to remedy the evil; but there is not the
shadow of probability that JEFF Davis or any Of
bis species will ever be lifted up.
Moses died and no man knoweth the place Of
DDS BURIAL CandOr compels Us to admit that this
las. passage stubbornly resists our ingenuity and
that there viii be some resemblance between the
alg.at and the modern Moses after all. This was
or gredestined stopping place. But one point Of
similarity suggests others Siruiss A. j. aforesaid
v,- aais the CopPerheads fGcsJe congrCgant.r, see
report of meetings Of Endorsement.
Moses once dreaded assassination So also does
Andrew; but we guess the men Moses feared were
eyer than Thad. Stevens, aud more athletic than
Charles sumner
Moses was not 8ycTse ID TepettIons. He gave
. Isractess Deuteronomy repetition Of the law
AI.-ev -Deuteronomizes Moses Altogether,
sa don't think Andrew very well adapted 10 the
aa. IF Moses As Noses he would probably sue
..-.. better.