Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1866-10-16
Parson Brownlow.

some of this old scoundreP s letters to the Rev
A. Pryne, in which he takes the extreme view
of slavery as a diviney ordained institution
from letter No. 5, we extract the following
sweet morceaux
Sir, you are Congregational minister, and ]
see from newspaper notices that you have beer
desecrating the Sabbath by attempting tc
preach the Gospel of Christ; and when you have
performed the damning deed of haranguing q
congregation of KNAvES and FOOLS, for two
round and publish with hypocritical cant, that
you PREACHED at such a church, on such sub
ject! 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 foot
steps of your Lord, OF are you actuated by the
spirit of His religion. His WAS OF PEACE
YOURS OF THE SWORD His was for.
bearance, YOURS ASSAULT UPON UNOF
TENDING WOMEN AND CHILDREN,
EVEN UNTO DEATH. He purchased nc
weapons, even to be turned upon his enemies
while yours is the religion Of the 6o,eae hn5fe,
the rite, the revoEcer, and the Connecticut pike.
His was mercy, yours is murder. You propose
to turn the brutal negro upon unsuspecting
white men and the defenceless white women,
and see them gloat on murder and rapine.
But, sir the South can in two months enter
into an alliance with either England or France,
commercial and political, offensive and defen-
sive, and In either case it will be utter ruin to
the Northern States of this Confederacy. Eng
land and France want our rice, tobacco and cot
ton, but they do not want the manufactures OF
New England An alliance between England
and these Southern States will break the exist
ing tariff system, discriminating In favor OF
oto ofc o-,I
and scatter all your hopes to the winds, and
coming at once in collision with your ancient
competitor, and her low wages without that
protection which has built up all your cities and
towns, you must be destroyed. Whenever 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
I, sir, aoould jaror ON alliance NTH France as
a means of more efectually Furnishing and starv-
ing out the Abolitionists of the North. The
far-seeing monarch Of the French would unite
with us on oatr oa0n terms, as it would afford
him an opportunity to crush the commerce and
manufactures Of Old England, and make her
feel that she is dependent upon her ancient en-
emy, as well as atone for villainous treatment
of his illustrious uncle, Napoleon Bonaparte-
Dissolve this Union, you infamous villains, and
we shall make this proposition at once to Louis
Napoleon, a most sagacious monarch, and he
would quarter at New Orleans 200, 900 French
man, and at Chesapeake 100000 more; we
would then command the Mississippi Valley,
,oiip The Northeastern States into OURSOU1H-
IHRN 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 fisher
les Of Maine, until we would extinguish the last
Abolition foothood on the continent of Ameri-
ca Face to face, knife to knife, steel to steel,
and pike to pike, we would meet you, and as
we would cause you to bleed at every pore, ace
acou1d sno7e you regret, IN the bitter ago1eses OF
death, that you had ever felt any concern for
the African racel
Now. Mr. Pryne, may ask you and your
fellow -aborers In the cause Of the deviI to pause
and lift the veil Of the future, not quarter of
a century ahead of you, and use your influence
to stag the .fdnaticol hand raised to strike the
blo0 Of rain to your country! Cali around you
a council Of your head men and warriors-Sen-
ator Seward, Joshua r. Giddings, Chase, and
Fred Douglas-for whom you are doing journey
work, and go to that victim in the lunatic asy-
lum, Gerritt Smith, whose tool you have been
for years, and upon whose money you have
lived and fed your wife and children-ask them
all if you had not better change your programme.
If the response is not satisfactory, call prayer
meeting, and have Wendell Phillips, Beecher,
Cheever, and all the long faced hypocrites 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 going with lightning speed Ask
God to forgive you for wickedness praying
morning, evening and noon, with your face to-
wards Harper's Ferry Ask him to wash your
filthy garments from the stain of blood of your
Kansas and Virginia murderers, and importune
Him until you get your answer-''go and sin no
more-sin no longer against conscience and your
countrv's laws and Constitution. -