The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1866-05-09
Prentice on BrownloW..t

idols he whileM worshiped, and who takes
Cnf1ee under his wing with d parental de-
of yotion in his new condition of freedom .
a BFownlow, Rumpty, Roaring, Ruthless,
~ Rash, Ridiculous BroWDlow, las met his
1t match at last. LIZ
In the course of his varied and chequer-
" ed career the redoubtab!e defender Of the
/: faith in Tennessee has had the misfortune
"a to run afonI OF the editor Of The Louisville
~ Journal We ayow a profound ignorance
% as to the cause that led the Tennessee par
u son to pit his powers against the Kentucky
u writer 1t is enough to know that the
10 dire,ul conjunction has occurred and as a
consequence, the former has come out Of
the conflict shorn Of every vestige Of the
% bravery with which he weht into it, and so
p.tiable, melancholy and wretched an OBJ
= ject of comlnisscration that the laugh upon
IS the lips OF the looker-on is changed into a
CHASTITY stare of horror at what remains Of
this honest man.
al Did we not have the evidences before us
we could scarcely conceive, at this late day
that this stalWart and blatant champion Of
/ negro emancipation should everh have threat
ened to :" eHtingush the lasta foot
+ hold lneaning New singland) on the con
! tinent Of America And were we not for
: tilted by the same testimony to the fact we
would scout with derision the assertion
(, that he ever announced to The pious work
b |ers in the vineyard of freedom that they
were infamous Williams" and with the
Z vengeance of an Infatuated foe we will be
upon you in The North, at the hour Of mid
: night, and as long as a iucifer match, can
be found we will hurn up your substance
Thus BroWnlow, in letter, written in.
May, 1860, and addressed to the Rev. Mr..
Pryne-.a letter which the editor Of The
Louisville Jolrnal has resiurected in most
Hntoward moment for the faithful and
wherewith, in the controversy, he deals the
written. a destructive and disheartening blow.
We submit thae the resuscitasion of Ian
guage like the following. penned by Brown
low only six years ago., is most calamitous
I at this time when all good men of his ard
i Mr.. b. +. Buffers class are so diligently
seeking to atone for their errors:
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 ev-
cry pore, we would make you regret in the
bitter agonies of death, that you had everl
felt any concern for the African race.
4 Sir, if the fanatical, wicked, and Internal
course pursued by you and your uHprinci-
pied associates is continued, the result will
be as | have said, and you or your children
will live to see it. Pale-faced poverty and
dlsmay are staring some ofyour Inanutactu-
refs and operatives iu the face We are
sending our orders to England and France
for goods, and driving your hell-deserying
freedom shriekers-into the holding Of Union
meetings, and making these against their
wills curse all agitators of the slavery ques-
1 ton, and resolve that John Brown and his |
lmmderous associates got only justice when
hung at Charlestownl Garry on your war
Iif you choose death rather than life, and
We will stain every swamp in the South |
with yours and orr own blood, and with |
| the vengeance Of an infatuated foe we viii
be upon you in the North, at the hour of
midnight midras long as a lueifer match |
can be found we will burn up your sub
stance. s
HIKING thus, by the Introduction Of this
danmable evidence, prepared The victim for
the sacrifice, the editor ofI'he Journal pro-
ceeds to offer him up & lie published"
says the Louisville editor, the Internal
language that we have cited, whets per-.
lhaps, no other man in all the world would
have defiled his mouth or paper with it to
save his neck from the hangnan s halter
He showed himself q walking volcano, with
snow upon his peak and all hell in his
BOSOM"
The editor then proceeds, truly, to say,
that it is "lnost extraordinary and Dis
graceful " that the people of Tennessee,
knowing this man as they did should have
elected him Governor. Waxing warm
with the sacrifice, taking mereiless de-
light in the contortions of the unfortunate
victim, and becoming savage with the smell
of the writhing wretch's blood, The Jour
Enal thus finishes themiselablc man:
| No other State was ever afflicted and
disgraced and cursed with such al unmiti-
gated and unnitigab;e such an uDredeemod
and irredecInable BLACKBOARD as her Chief
Magistrate He is parody, caricature,
q broad burlesque on all possible governors.
They say there is fire in him, but it is he'll
| fire, every particle fit. Though lie is but
a single swine, there are as many devils in
him as there were il the whole herd that
g ran violently dowa steep place into the
sea" His heart is nothing but a Kissing
knot Of yipets, rattlesnakes, cobra and cot
ton months lie never argued q question
in his life, approaching no subject but with
fierce, bitter. coarse, low and vulgar obiur-
cations. Ills tongue should be bored
through and through with his owh steel
pen, heated red hot
This man, as we have said, calls himself
q clergyman. He holds forth in pulpits.- '
He breaches, prsys and eShorts, draws L
down his face, drops the corners Of his
mouth and undertakes to look sanctimo-
nious. And yet he seems always trying III
his pulpit discusses to see under how thin !
"a Disguise he can venture to curse, and I
swear, and blNspleme. IIe can't offer up |
q prayer in the house Of God without tell {
ing the Lord what an internal scoundrel, {
damned thief, or carsed yagabond, this,
that or the other neighbor is. From his '
youth up to his old are be has had no per-
sonal controversies without attacking the |
wives, fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grand 4
mothers, brothers, sisters, children, uneIeS.
aunts and nephcws u his opponents.
For IN outsider. as We confess oqrself to :
be, to attempt to add to the rigor of the :
above, would be useless and futile. This :
dissection, by q master hard, ofBrownlow's !
many infrmities will stand Sphinx oflit
erature, unparalleled and not to be paral-
lelled. The oily doubt that will be lettiu /
the mind ofthe reader Of the foregoing ex- |
tracts will be as to which OF the two de- c
serves the palm for 4 peculiar use Of the |
English language That doubt, it is true, e