Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-05-03


and making these against their
wills, curse all agitators of the sla-
very question, and resolve that
John Brown and his murderous
associates got only justice when
hung at Charleston? Carry
on your war if you choose death
rather than life, and we will stain
every swamp in the South with
yours and our own blood, and with
the vengeance of an infatuated
foe we will be upon you in the
North, at the hour of midnight,
and as long as a lucifer match can
be found we will burn up your SUBJ
stance"
Brownlow was for having all
these horrors perpetrated if the
fanatics Of the North should keep
up their war upon slavery, that is,
if they should do exactly what he
himself afterward, and very soop
afterward, did-did before slavery
was abolished by the war. He
was for battle of sections if the
Northern fanatics should continue
their clamor; he was for an alliance
offensive and defensive, in that
event, between the Southern States
and France or England; he was for
having France place 100000 men
at New Orleans, and 100000 men
at Chesapeake; he was for taking
possession of the whole Mississippi
valley from the Balize, to the Falls
Iof St. Anthony, whipping the
Northwestern States into his
Southern Confederacy, and then
turning upon New England and
causing the hurricane of civil war
to rage from Mason and Dixon's
line to, the codfisheries of the
North, and burning the Northern
Icities and towns with the mid
night torch. And these were not
his views and resolves as a hot
headed boy, or person in the
prime of life; they were the ma
Ilignant declarations of q white
haired, gray-bearded old man, up
ward Of fifty, if not full sixty
years Of age. They were the ut
terances of a preacher, of a pre-
tended dispenser of the Gospel of
Christ, of one calling himself a
man of Godl No traitors in all
the South have ever exhibited
more of the helligh spirit of treas
on than he. He published the
internal language we have cited
when perhaps no other man in all
the world would have defled his
mouth or paper with it to save
his neck from the hangman's hal
ter. He showed himself a walk
ing volcano, with snow upon his
peak and all hell in his bosom.
It is most extraordinary and
most disgraceful that any portion
of the people of Tennessee, know
ing this man as they did, voted to
make him Governor of that State.
Their only excuse must be, that
they were under military law, and
SO not really free agents in his
election. No other State was ev-
er cursed with such an unmitiga-
ted and unmitigable, such an un-
redeemed and irredeemable black
guard as her Chief Magistrate
He is a parody, caricature, a
broad burlesque on all possible
Governors. He is a monstrosi-
ty. He is a thing as much out
of nature as Barnum's woolly
horse or his giants or dwarfs, or
his calf with two heads and eight
legs-four of the legs pointing to.
wards the zenith. His blood is
hell-broth, which Satan will one
day sup with a long spoon. They
say there is fire in him, but it is
hell-fre, every particle OF it
Though he is but a single swine,
there are as many devils in him as
there were in the whole herd that
Gran violently down a steep place
into the sea-" His heart is moth
ing but a kissing knot of vipers,
rattle-snakes, cobra, and cotton
mouth. He never argued ques-
ton in his life, approached no OBJ
ject but with fierce, bitter, coarse,
low and vulgar objurgation. His
tongue should be bored through
and through with his own steel pen
heated red hot. a,
This man, as we have said, calls
himself clergyman. He holds
forth in pulpits. He breaches,
prays and exhorts, draws down.
his face. drons the CORNERS If hisl