Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1866-05-01
Prentice on Brownlow.

Prentice is after the miserable old slime,
BrowlOw with a whip of scorpions. he a..
guerreotypes him in the following witherin,
language, which is as true as it is severe:
1t is most extraordinary and most die.
graceful that any portion of the people of
Tennessee, knowing this man as they all did
voted to make him Governor of that State
Their only excuse must be, that thew were
under military law, and SO not really free
agents in his election No other State Nas
ever afflicted and disSraced aud cursed with
such an unmitigated and unmitigable. such
an unredeemed and irredecmable blackonard
as her Chief Magistrate. He is a parody. n
caricature, broad burlesque on ali possible
Governors. He is monstrosity. He is a
thing as much out of nature as Barnum's
Wooliy horse or his giants and dwarfs or his
cali with two heads and eight legs-four of
the legs pointing toward the zenith. His
blood IS heil-brOth, which Satan will one
day sup up with long spoon. They saw
tNere IS hire IN him, but it is ell.fire, every
particle OF 1t. Though he is but a single
SWINE, there are us many devils in him as
tnefe were IN the whole herd that iran vio-
iently down steep place into the sea-" His
neaTt Is nothing but a kissing knot of vipers,
rattlesnaEes, cobra, aud cotton mouths He
never argued question in his life. anproach-
ing no subject but with fierce, bitter coorse
l0w' anu vulgar objurgations His tonVue
snou'o DC bored through and through with
ms own steel-Pen, heated RED. hot.
ms mnn, as we have said, calls himself i,
clergyman. He holds forth in the npIn;t
He breaches. prays, and exhOrts, draws dnw,
his face drops the corners Of his moutb ana
undertakes to look 'sanctimouious And va,
he seems always trying in his pulpit dis
Courses to see under how thin guise he can
venture to curse and swear aud bIasoheme
lie cant offer up a prayer in the Eouse Of
GOD without telling the Lord what au infer
MAJ Scouodrel' damned thief, or cursed vaga-
bond, this, that, or the other neighbour i
From his youth up tn his old aye. he bo.
had no personal controversies without att,c[-
ing the wives, fathers, mothers, grand. fathers
grand-mothers, brothers, sisters, children
uncles, aunts, and nephews of his Opponents
lie Las sought TO strew his whole path of If.
with the dark wrecks of wnntoniv. mined
regulations. He has never had nm borr,,
happiness except in the unhappiness of o,hers
lie has ever said to Evil .be thou nv noodp;
lie has always carefully hunted down all
that he heard untavOrube to gentlemen while
protesting to be their friend, SO as to be
ready for the day OF alienation.
lie howls venom, talks venom, breatbes
venom, belches venom, coughs venom, sneez-
eS venom sPits venom, sweats venom, stinks
venom, aud distils venom from his nose. MT
the tullSinous exhalutions from the bottom-
less pit, not the fre-and- birthstone fune.
from the sooty throat of the Devil. were ever
more blightlng and blasting than his accursed
serPentbreath. He never had a friend ON
earth, outside OF his own family No douLt
there are those who fear him for his Geudish
ieroclty, but no human being not Of his own
household ever loved or respected him liz
Will yet have his reward Sowing in wrotL
ne Will reap in agony. Fury and hate nav
stlhe IN his heart the feeling of remOrse for n
time, but Nemesis, with her horrid whip.
VIII yet scOurSe him around the whole orb Of
being. All the hairs upon his head will
seem to him to be snakes like the hissin,,
anu tork-tongued locks Of the Eumenides.S
when lie shall retire, rs he soon must. from
the noisy and tumutuOus striles that hive
ever engaged aud still engage all his Thoughts.
he will not have solitary pleasant md seron1
memory Of the past. Ca the contrary n store
OF bitter, desclate and torturing RECOLLECTION.
Will c9rrOde and eat up his very heart. until.
cut on from the pale Of all the beautiful ge-
nantes OF life, having no friends or compan
IONS around hIm to sOOthc him in his physi-
cal and moral solitude, deserted by mankind
whose enemy he has been and oaLhed by God
whose holy temples he has sacriliglousIy DIES.
ecrated by his hUrrid moekeries of RELIGION,
fostering from head to foot with the polluted
and poisonous puddle water in his veins. stand
ing as an outca>t aud para on the lone desert
OF despair, shrinking from the past. ayonized
by the present, and not during to gaze into
the future, behOldtng in fancy upon the door
OF h's own soul the words Hope COMES not
mere that comes to ALL" shut out by nurkiest
clouds from every star that 10 others lights
the path to the tomb, and writhin2 under nv
rad curses and executions piled like noun
ta'ns OF living conls upon his head. he shall
lonS at last to rake his escape from Garth
scarcely asking to what more dreadful destiny,