The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-01
More from Nothing Left Of
RrOWnlOW.
From the Louisville Journal

70 De LnOu9nL, at IeasG Oy SOne' IuaI' VIII
all his internal fendishness, he had some
coarse vigor of expression, though no Vigor
at all of thought. But he has got to be the
merest imbecile even in language. He has
lied.and sworn and 1aVed himself into idi-
ocy.
The foolish old imp or impish old fool
attacks US again in his Knoxville Whig of
last week. 1t is all a mere reproduction,
repetition, in even poorer and weaker
form, of his slanders of the week before.
Not an additional charge or circumstance is
put forth. We replied last Monday, to all
his charges, and there is no need of our
replying to them again. He knew and he
knows that they are all infamous lies. He
saw our refutation of them, but ignores all
refutations.
This accursed old miscreant says that we,
the senior editor of the Journal, were the
chief actor in Mr.. Isham Henderson's trans
action with the Government. Mr.. Hender-
sons transactions, we are sure, were per
fectlY upright, but be that as it may, we
had and have nothing to do with them. Mr..
Henderson had no transactions inside our
office; and, with those outside, we had no
more to do than the man in the moon. Mr..
H. has never had any transactians in our
office. He has not desired to have. He
has had enterprises on his own personal
account, as he had right to have. Since
Brownlow asserts, that, in Mr.. Henderson's
mule transactions, we were 'the chief
power behind the throne,'' let the old ms
creant say what atom of evidence he has Of
his as ertion. If he has any, why has ne
body else any? If he has any-the dam
nable old villain--why doesn't he lay it be-
fore the proper authorities, that we may be
properly dealt with? Who, besides him,
charges us with any sort of completely with
what Mr.. Henderson may have done? And
he the Governor of State
The old villain repeats his charge, that,
during the war, we had extensive contracts
to furnish the Government with guns, pis-
tolls, etc. We have repeatedly branded the
charge as-what it is--an unmitigated lie.
If we had contracted to furnish guns and
pistols to the Government, it would GER
tainly have been no dishonor to US. But we
didn't. We never asked for any such con
tract. We never wanted one. In selling
to individuals, under license from the city
of Louisville, the few guns and pistols We
did sell, we were as independent of the
Federal Government as of the Cham of
Tartary. We repeat that the Government,
in all the war, laid on US no obligation, but,
on the contrary, a very gross disobligation.
We do not expect to be called on to deny
the miserable libel againa
Brownlow is the poorest of humbugs.-
He resorts to all kinds of mean and low
lived tricks to give himself consequence.
Some time ago be put report in circula-
ton that an attempt bad been made or was
about to be made to assassinate him. But
no assassin has been found or traced. None
is named. Nobody believes that any such
attempt as he speaks of was ever contem-
plated. The miserable old creature seems
anxious to rival the fame of Payne, who,
several years ago, pretended to be fred at
every day and night, and acquired the
name of the ''great shot-at." He wants to
have it thought that there is perpetual
deadly conflict between himself on the one
side, and tens Of thousands of Fufians on
the other, armed cannon, mortars, rifles,
blunderbusses and dung forks. Imposition,
fraud, cheat, artifce, trick, trickery, coz
ening, swindling, have ever been his
ton. We do not say that he is a mins
of the Devil, for ole ClOven.fOot has more
sense than to employ old Cloven-tongue as
his minister. The latter has the temper Of
a hyena, the manners of bear, the decen-
cy of skunk, and the morals of chicken
hawk.
Our readers already know how, as late as
1861, Brownlow threatened in published
letter that the South, unless the North
should come to terms, would form an alli-
ance with France and overrun and subju-
gate the North. They know how, after his
release from a rebel prison, he denounced
the North for contemplating opposition to
the rebellion. And they know how long
and earnestly Judge @. F. Trigg and Mr..
John Williamson had to expostulate and
demonstrate with him to keep him from
publishing an article, in type, in favor OF
the election of delegate from the Knox
vile District to the rebel Congress. And
they must know, from these facts, that he
is as damnable an old traitor as ever swung
between earth and sky, twirling and squeak
ing in the winds of heaven. There isn't a
wretch in all the Southern Confederacy
that more deserves hanging than he.
Old Brownlow was never in but one place
where he deserved to be, and that was in
the rebel prison. If he has any more lying
to do, perhaps he had better make haste to
do it in this world, as he will get his pass