Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-06-01
From the Louisville Journal. I
MORE FROM PRENTICE.
AND NOTHING LEFT OF BRowNlow.

| ANo NoiniNd LEfT VI bnVNNLOW.
Governor Brownlow, the old man misera-
BILE, is getting feebler and feebler. It used
to be thought at least by some that, with all
his Internal fiendishness, he had some coarse
vigor Of expression, though no vigor at all
of thought But he has got 70 be the merest
imbecils even In language. He has lied and
sworn and raved himself into idiocy.
The foolish old imp or impish old fool at
tacks US again In his Knoxville Wing of last
week. 1t is all mere reproduction, repeti-
tion, in even poorer and weaker form, of
his ISLANDERS 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 ref
utation Of Them, but ignores all refutations.
This accursed old mscreant 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 perfect
ly upwright, but be that as it may, we had
and have had 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.. Il. has never had any transactions in
our office. He has not desired to have. He
has had an enterprises on his own personal ac-
count, as he had a right to have. Since
Brownlow asserts that, in Mr.. Henderson's s
mule transactions, we were sthe chief power
behind the throne" let the old miscreant say
whatantom ofevidence he has ofhis assertion.
1 III he has a vu,x he a. -, -
has any; the darnable old william; why doesn't
he lay it before the proper authorities, that
we may be properly dealt with? Who, be-
sides him, charges us with any sort of COM
plcity with what Mr.. Henderson may have
done2 And he the Governor of Statel
The old william repeats his chssrge, that,
during the war, wehad extensive contracts to
furnish the Government with guns, pistols,
etc. We have repeadly branded the charge
as-what it is--an unmitigated lie. If we
had contracted to furnish guns and and pis-
tolls to the Government, it would certainly
have been no dishonor to US. But we didn't.
We never asked for any such contract
We never wanted one. In selling to indi.
yiduals, under O license from the city Of
Louisville, the few guns and pistols we did
sell, we were as Independent of the Federal
Government sof the Cham ofTartary. We
repeat that the Government, In all the war,
laid on US no obligation, but on the contra
ry, very gross disobligation. We do not
expect to feel called on to day to deny the
miserable libel again.
Brownlow is the poorest of humbugs. He
resorts to all kinds of mean and low-lived
tricks to give himself consequence. Some
time ago he put report in circulation that
an attempt had been made or was about to
be made to assassinate him. But no assassin
has been found or traced. None is uamed.-
Nobody believes that any such attempt
as he speaks Of was ever contempla-
ted The miserable old creature seems anx-
ious 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 be-
tween himself on the one side, and tens of
thousands Of ruffians on the other, armed
with cannon, nOrtars, rifles, blunderbussess
and dung-forks. Imposition, fraud, cheat
artifice, trick, trckery, cozening, swindling,
have ever been his vocation. We do not say
that he is a minister of the Devil, for old
Cloven.foot has more sense than to employ
old Cloven-tongue as his minister. The lat
ter has the temper of a hyena, the manners
of bear, the decency 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 alliance with
France and overrun and subjugate the North.
They know how, after his release from rebel
prison, he denounced North for contemplat-
ing opposition to the rebellion. And they
know how long and earnestly Judge G. F.
Trigg and Mr.. John Williamson had to ex-
postulate and demonstrate with him to keep
him from publishing an article, in type, in
favor of the election Of delegate in the
Knoxville District to the rebel Congress-
And he must know, from these facts, that he
is as damnabe an old traitor as ever swung
between earth and sky, twirling and squeak
ing in the winds of heaven. There inst 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. II he has any more lying to
do, perhaps he had better make haste to do
it in this world, as he will get his pens and
paper schorched and his ink boiled away in
the next. He has chronic diarrhea of lies
He could no more breathe an air unified with
his own lies and curses than one without hy-
drogen or oxygen. If he were off the
earth, it would appear much more favorably
than it does with its sister planets. He is no
writer-simply brawler, he-vixen, a
male-termagant a masculine-virago. He ID
OF the class of common scolds," who, by an
old law of Great Britain, were ducked in
horseponds. He is q villifier traducer, a
calumniator Of men, women and children.
No excellence, no purity, no helplessness, is q
protet ton against his venomous assault. He
aims his vengince alike at the living and the
dead. His venom creeps through the cold
sands of the grave to find its victim. A bu-
ried body is no more safe from him than from
other grave-worms. al have lost day, y
said the good Roman Emperor, when he re-
membered to have done no good deed.
have lost minute, Brownlow might say If he
remembered no malignant thing. His hear
and life blacken, as his old head whitens.-
His fathers hoof is split-the sons ears and
tongue, should be. He deserves TO be kicked
until, like the pit he is going to, he is "bot
tOmless."
Brownlow has all the worst qualities Of the
devil, but the latter, If he has any redeemine
qualities, is, in comparison with the "Par'
SON" a christian gentleman. Brownlow L
I a rattlesnake, with his rattles at the wrong
end of him. He is hog, with the kink il
) his head instead of this tail. If beyonet
bristle at him, he can turn the back Of hi
neck and bristle back with interest. w,
have ground him until he is ground-hog.--
We have hedged him until he is hedge
I hog. He is a small man. but great swine
: he may be a rich man, but he is q poo