The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-03-23


the latter.
I will make up. for my delay by the
length and sweetness,of this epistle. So let
me ask you to carefully read what write
you, that you may see yourself as others
see you-an unwasned, unmitigated, un-
regenerate, and God d-forsaken abolitionist,
who, if you will dare show yourself South,
and repeat your wholesale abuse of slave
holders, and your vile reflection upon the
virtue of Southern ladies, shall be treated
to coat of tar and cotton, and rode upon
rail by free negroes and Northern prosti- !
tutes, such as are skulking about in our
large towns and cities.
Sir, you are Congregational minister,
| and I see from newspaper notices that you
have been desecrating the Sabbath by at
tempting to preach the gospel of Christ; and
when you have performed the damning deed
of haranging a congregation of knaves and
fools for two hours upon the subject of sla-
very, you turn round and publish, with
hypocritical cant, that you preached at such
a church on such subject! You profess
to be follower of Christ, talk much about
the pretended piety of the South, yet in no
wise do you follow the footsteps of your
Lord, or are you actuated by the spirit of
His religion. His was of peace, yours of
the sword. His was forbearance, yours
assault upon unofending women and chill
dren, even unto death. He purchased no
weapons, even to be turned upon his enc
mics; while yours is the religion of the
boWie-knife, the rife, the revolver and the
Connecticut pike. His was mercy, yours
is murder.
You propose to turn the brutal negro upon
unsuspecting white men and white women,
and see them gloat on murder and rapine.
He would gather little children to his bo-
som, saying, 'Of such is the Kingdom of
Heaven while you propose to have them
indiscriminAtely butchered for the alleged
offense of their parents. He consoles the
single sisters of departed Christian, while
you propose to consign innocent white
girls of your own race to the brutal embrace
of set of infuriated Africans.
He taught His followers to render to
Caesar the things that are Csesar's, while
you boast of stealing slaves, recognized
by the Bible and the American Constitution
as property. I, therefore. can hot address
you as Christian minister of the Christian
religion, or meek and lowly follower of
the Lamb of God, butas heartless, unfeel-
ing, unprincipled knave, too wise and well
educated to act without vilanious purpose,
too little religion to be fanatic, but pos
sessing the power to make fools, knaves and
fanatics of others. X x
Dissolve this Union, you infamous vii
lains, and we shall make the proposition at
once to Louis Napoleon, most sagaoious
monarch, and he would quarter at New Or
Jeans zoo, 900 Frenchmen, and at Chesa-
peake 100000 more; we would then COM
mand the Mississippi Valley, whip the
North western States into our Southern
Confederacy, and we would then turn upon
the New England States and cause the
hurricane of civil war to rage and sweep
from Mason and Dixon's line to the cod
fisheries of Maine, until we would extin-
guish the last Abolishion sfoothold on the
continent of America. Face to face, knife
to kaife, steel to steel, and pike to pike, we
should meet you, and we would cause you
to bleed at every pore; we would make you
regret, in the bitter agonies of death, that
you had ever felt any concern for the, ,Afri-
can race!
If the response be not satisfactory, call
prayer-meetlng, and have Wendell Phillips,
Beecher, Cheever, and all the Iong-face d
hypocrits who insult God and mock religion
by calling upon Him for mercy, pray old
John Brown and his confederates out of
hell, where the whole batch of you are GO
ing with lightning speed! Ask God to
forgive you for your MISUNDERSTANDING,
mourning, evening and noon, with your
faces toward Harper's Ferry! Ask Him to
wash your filthy garments from the stain of
blood of your Kansas and Virginia MUIR
ders, and importune Him until you get
your answer-'Go and sin no more-sin
no longer against conscience and your
counlry's laws and constitution Don't
pray for Heaven, for no power can qualify
you to walk the Streets of the New Jerusa-
lem! Don't ask for mercy, for the winged
messenger never can light on such mean
and detestable creatures. Don't ask to be
punished in he'll, for that would be made
quate to your crimesl Ask to be annihi-
? lated, or banished to the utmost verge of
, astronomical imagination, where the ghost
of a negro may never rise up to remind you
} whence you came!
With this exhortation, L will let you rest
until my NANNY pressing and official