Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-10-12
From the Knoxville Wig, May 8, lseo.1i
BR0WNL0W's LETTER TO PRYNE.
REV. A. pRYNE--No. 81:

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rendered still more filthy, false, and infa-
nous under your editorial management du-
ring his visit TO England. l have been en-
gagged in my attention to home matters, to
! the winding up the career of yonr I'D bosom
| friend, John Brown, with whom and by the
side of whom you ought to have pulled hemp
without foothold, or would have paid my
respects to you before this time. have
watched your movements with interest, ex-
pecting to hear of your being called before
the Harpers Ferry Investigating Committee
of the Senate, and had you been, should
have gone to Washington to hear you de-
pose as you have done one of two things
certain either disclose enough to hang sew
cral of your Abolition associates, or swore a
batch of lies, most probably the latter.
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 unwasbed, unmitigated, unregenerate,
and God .forsaken Abolitionist, who, if you
will dare show yourself South, and repeat
your wholesale abuse of Shareholders and
your vile reflections upon the virtue OF
Southern ladies, shall be treated to coat of
TAR AND COTTON, and rode upon a raj by free
negroes and Northern prostitutes, such as are
skulking about in our large towns and cit
les
Sir, you are Congregational minister,
and 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 haranguing congregation of KNAvEs and
POOLS, for two hours, upon the subject of
slavery, you turn round and publish with
hypocritical cant, that you PREACHED at such
"A church, on such a subject You profess to
be follower of Christ, talk much about the
pretended piety of the South, yet in no wise
do you follow in the footsteps of your Lord,
nor are you actuated by the spirit of His re-
ligion. His WAS OF PEACE. YOURS
OF THE SWORD. His was forbearance.-
YOURS ASSAULT UPON UNOFFEND-
ING WOMEN AND CHILDREN, EVEN
UNTO DEATH. He purchased no weapons,
even to be turned upon his enemies while
yours is the religion of The bo1ie knife, the
rite, the rerOtUer, and the Connecticut pike
His was mercy, yours is murder. You pro-
pose to turn the brutal negro upon unsus-
pecting white men aud the defenceless white
women, and see them gloat on murder and
idpihCs Bhtuti ltuO W
His bosom, saying, "Of such is the kingdom
of heaven" while you propose to have
them indscr minately butchered, for the al
legged offence of their parents. He consoled
the single sisters of departed Christian,
while you propose to consign innocent white
girls of your own race TO the brutal embrace
of a set of Infatuated Africans. He taught
His followers to render to Caesar the things
that are Caesars while you boast of stealing
slaves, recognized by the Bible and the Amer
lean Constitution as property. J., therefore,
cannot address you as minister of the
Christian religion, or follower of the meek
and lowly Lamb of God but as heartless,
unfeeling, unprincipled knave, too wise and
well educated TO act without a villainous
purpose, too little religion to be a fanatic,
but possessing the power to make fools,
knaves, and fanatics of Others In the house
of God, on Sunday, you boast Of having
raised money to incite instruction in Kan
sas, and when the damning deed was done,
you exclaim, "All honors TO glorious old
John Brown and his boys!" You send men
to apply the torch to your neighbours dwell
ing, and excite black men to murder white
men, approving Of the Harper's Ferry foray,
then say you only wish to liberate the
,tdeeS Such infamous conduct no reason
can justify, no honest heather can approve.
Jesus Christ lived in Province of the Ro-
man Empire, from his infancy until death,
may say, and never excited feelings Of anger
against his fellow man, and never plotted
treason against the Government under which
he lived, but said, Servants, be ODeditnt
to your masters" and that, too, when there
were SIXTY-THREE MILLION of slaves
in the Empire, against FIVE MILLIONS in
Americal
II, hypocritical sir, your philanthropy
must be exercised, why not begin with the
''moral suason' of New England saints,
your bowie-knives, Sharps' rifles, and Con.
necticut pixies, and bloodshed in Africa, the
parent country from which you Puritanical
saints stole the first slaves that were intro
duced into the Southern market There
the field is wide and the harvest ripe. But,
you contemplate hireling of wealthy scoun-
drels, turn in at home and look upon your
self-cleanse first the iniqitous house of your
great Northern cities before you begin the
work of reform in Kansas and Virginia. asd
when your work is finished at home, if you
are not partial to color, invite your phian-
thropc efforts ~ benighted Asia, where there
are FOUR HUNDRED MILLIONS of hui
man beings more degraded than the slaves
of these Southern States! Why excite men,
you vile incendiary, to fanatical deeds which
must destroy both their country and them
selves? Why urge on and goad the South
orn States TO disunion when destruction will
fall alike on both North and South2 If this
Union is dissolved, which may God in His
mercy prevent, we must, Of necessity, be
engulfed in the whirlpool of European wars,
and go down forever as Il Republic.
But sir, the South can in two months en-
ter into an alliance with either England or
France, commercial and political, offensive
and defensive, and in either case it will be
utter ruin TO the Northern States of this
Conlederacy. England and France want
our rice, tobacco, aud cotton, but they do
not want the manufactures of New England.
An alliance between England and these
Southern States will break the existing tariff
system, discriminating in favor Of New Eng
land manufactures, as rope Of sand and
scatter all Your hopes to the winds, and COM
ing at once in collision with your ancient
competitor, and her low wages, withou that
protection which has built up all your cities
and towns, you must be destroyed. When
ever such an alliance shall be formed, and
our cotton and other products are landed at
either Liverpool or Havre, and purchased
again at high rates, New England will see
the handwriting ON the wall
/, sir, ,oOuld .faOor an alliance with France
as a means of more efiectually furnishing and
starving out the Abolitionists OF the North.
The far-seeing monarch OF the French would
unite with us on oar OwH TERMS ms it would
afford him an OpDOrtunity to crush the cOm-
merce and Manufactures of Old England,
and make her feel that she is dependent up
on her ancient enemy, as well as atone for