Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-27
PRENTICE on BROWNLOW.

Parson Brownlow, the Irreverend Cover
nor of Tennessee has published one of his
Enthusiastically low and dirty articles about
us in the Knoxville Wing. In that article, he
has not stated single truth or anything ap-
proximating to truth. Whenever he sits
down to abuse anybody, lies cluster around
his pen like blue-bottle flies around horses
ears in July or August He lies with his
pen, lies with his tongue, lies with his ges-
lures lies through every pore Of his yellow
and shrivelled hide. Lies issue from his
mouth like the horned locusts from the throat
of that other great beast described in the
Apocalypse. He is probably the "father"
Of as many lies as the horned and tailed
master he serves.
The Parson is now fierce abolitionist. -
He goes as far in radcalism as the lowest
and the worst radical in the nation. He
would gladly bathe his hands aud feet and
wash his face in the blood of every man who
is not radical. But this disposition of his
10 OF recent origin. In May, 1860, when the
fire-eaters, among whom he claimed to be
leader, broke mp the Democratic party by
forcing two Democratic candidates upon II
with a settled purpose of getting Mr.. Lincoln
elected and then using his election ms pre-
text to destroy the Union, he was probably
more ferocious against the radicals, more
yengeful and revengeful toward them, than
any other editor in the country. The fol.
lowing from letter Of bis, dated May, 1860,
to the Rev. Mr.. Pryne, a Northern man,
whom he hated with a fendish hate for hav-
ing defeated him overwhelmingly in pub
lie controversy at Philadelphia, will show
what sort of position be occupied at that time:
"But, sir, the South can In two mouths
enter into an alliance with either England or
France, commercial and political, offensive
and defensive, and in either case II will be
utter ruin to the Northern States of this
Confederacy. England and France want our
Rice, Tobacco, and Cotton, but they don't
want the manufactures of New England. An
alliance between England and theso South
eIn States, will break the existing tariff sys-
TEN, discriminating In favor of New Eng
land manufactures, as rope Of sand, 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. 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, poutd facor an alliance Nth France
as means Of more effectuaily furnishing
and starving out the Abolitionists Of the
North. The far-seeing monarch Of the
French would antc with US on our own
terms, as II would afford him an opportunity
10 crush the commerce and manufactures OF
Old England, and make her feel that she Is
dependent upon her ancient enemy, rs well
as atone for villainous treatment Of his illus.
trious uncle, Napoleon Bonapaite. Dissolve
this Union, you Infamous villains, aed we
shall make this proposition at once TO Louis
Napoleon, most ssgacious monarch, and he
would quarter at New Orleans 100000
Frenchmen, and 1t Chesapeake zoe. 900 more;
we would then command the Mississippi
Valley, whip the Northwestern States into
our Smih0Tn Conf.lcracy, and we would