American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1866-04-28
Prentice on Brownlow.

ernor OF tennessee, mas published one {
his Enthusiastically low and dirty article
I about Us in the Knoxville Wing In tbs
article be has not stated single truth. Q
anything approximatiDg to a truth
Whenever be sits down to abuse any
body. lies cluster around his pen Xix
blue bottle flies around horses ears il
July or August. He lies with his pen
lies with his tongue. lies with his gestures
lies through every pore of bis yellow ant
shrivelled hide. Lies issue from his moutl
like horned locusts from the throat of tina
other great beast mentioned in Apoca.
lypse. He is probably the "father" o
as many lies as the horned and tailed
master he serves.
1t is most extraordinary and most dis.
graceful that any portion Of the people oil
Tennessee, knowing this man as they all
did, voted to make him Governor Of that
State. Their only excuse must be, that
they were under military law. and SO not
really free agents in his election. No
other State was ever afflicted, and dis.
gracsd and cursed with such an unmili.
gated and unmiligable. such an unre-
deemed aud irredeemable blackguard as
her Chief Magistrate. He is a parody,
caricature. a broad burlesque on all
possible Governors. He is a monsrosity.
He is thing as much out OF nature as
Barnum's woolly horse, or his giants and
his dwarfs, or his calf with two heads
and eight legs-four Of the legs point.
ing towards the zenith. His blood is
hellbroth, which Satan will one day sup
with a long spoon. They say there is
fire in him. but it is hel-fre. every par
ticle Of it. Though be is but single
swine, there are as many devils in him as
there were in the whole herd that "ran
violently down steep place in the sea-"
His heart is nothing but Kissing knot of
vipers, rattle snakes, cobra and cotton
mouths. He never argued question 10
bis life, approaching no subject but with
fierce, bitter, coarse, low and vul gar Oh
jurgations. His tongue should be bored
through and through With bis own steel
oop bootod ,oJ bot
This man, as we have said, call him
self clergyman. He holds forth in pull.
pits. He breaches, prays and exhorts,
draws down his face. drops down the
corners of bis mouth, and undertakes to |
look sanctimonious. And yet he seems TO
be always trying, in bis pulpit discourses,
to see under how thin a disguise be can
venture TO curse and swear and bias.
pheme. He can't offer up prayer in
the house of God without telling the
L ord what an internal scoundrel, cursed
thief or damned vagabond this that or
the other neighbor is. From his youth
up to his old age be has had no per-
sonal controversies without attacking the
wives, fathers, mothers, grandfalhers.
yranjmothers, brothers. sisters, children,
lncles, aunts and nepbews Of his oppo-
nents. He has sought to strew his whole
path Of life with the dark weeds of wan
only ruined regulations. He has ever
'aid to Evil, "Be thou my God !" He
has always carefully taken down all that
heard unfavorable TO Gentlemen while
protesting to be their friend, so as to be
eady for the day Of alienation.
He bowls venom. coughs venom, sneez
IS venom, splits venom, drops venom,
'weats venom, stnks venom, and distils
,enom from his nose. Not the fuIgiuous
xhalations from the bottomless pit, not
he fire. and birthstone fumes from the ,
ooty throat of the Devil. were ever
more blighting and blasting than his &C
cursed serpent-breath. He never had
riend on earth, outside Of his own family.
80 doubt there are those who fear bin ,
or his 6endish ferocity, but no human A.,
icing not of bis own household ever loved
r respected him. He will get have bis
eward. Sowing in wrath, be will reap
4 agony. Fury and hate may stiae in
is heart the feeling of remorse for time. +
ut Nemesis, with her horrid whip, will
ct scourge him round the whole orb of
eing. All the hairs upon his head will
eem to him to be snakes like the Kissing a
nd forked tongued locks of the Elmen-
les. When he shall retire, as be soon u
lust, from the noisy and tumultuous
TRIES that have ever engaged all his o
loughts, be will not have a solitary C
leasant and serene memory Of the past. b
On the contrary, a store of bitter and II
isolate and torturing recoleclions will D
orrode and eat up bis very heart. until, \
ut Of from all human sympsthies, exiled /
'om the pale of all the genialities Of life, 9
aviDg no friends or companions around /
i'm 10 soothe him in his moral and phys. s
al solitude. deserted by mankind whose a
nemy he has been, and loathed by God, 4
hose holV temDles he has sacrilepiously O.