Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1866-05-30
Targets Of SANDER.

1t would be an interesting, amusing, and IN some
respects melancholy task to recount the examples
given in history where the benefactors OF the peo
pie have been the marks of SANDER and abuse. de
who goes with the mob to do mischief by panderlnS
to their preudices has in some sense an easy task
Every ruffian will huzza for the demagogue who
leads gang of desperadOes like himself to some IN
famous deed. 1t is easy to win certain klnd OF
reputation in stopping to be pimp of public vices
On the contrary the vulgar herd who applaud q
Williams take peculiar pleasure in villifying the
virtuous and OBTAINING the good. The latter have
the qualification, however, of knowing that the re-
ward of their good deeds must come at last and the
very defamation which they had to encounter IN
walking the path of duty will at last turn to praise
for there higher applause than the abuse OF the
corrupt and vicious.
a villains censurc is cy torted praise.
Bunyan, in his immortal allegory, saw a man
all clothed in white, and two men, Prejudice and
Ill Will, continually casting dirt upon him. Now,
behold the dirt whatsoever they cast at him, would
in q little time fall off again, and his garment would
look as clear if no dirt had been cast thereat -
The vision which the great dreamer saw on Mount
Innocence has been repeated daily from the exile OF
our first parents to the present time. Men who ven
ture to proclaim and act great truths IN oPpoSlton
to the preudices of the vu gar, and the mercenary
interests of their old leaders, will ever be the targets
| of SANDER. When Abraham Lincoln issued his I'M
| mortal proclamation of Emancipation, the blood
B
heels with snarling lips and crashing teeth. When
the great anti-savery, and, therefore, Con conven-
ton met in this city and declared that slavery should
exist in Tennessee more, every enemy OF the co.
eral Union villifed them as knaves and rldlculed
them as a molly crowd Of fools and clowns, who
sought with sacrilegous presumption to NEEDLE
with the tme-honOred institutions OF the Statei and
when the present patriotic State administration was
| inaugurated, and convened Legislature OF plain,
unambitious and incOrruptible Unlonlsts to take
counsel over the shattered and ruined fortunes OF
the State every foul mouthed rebel editor from one
end of Tennessee to the other from whose uncOmb-
ed and ill-smellng locks Confederate graybacks
| we're crawling in swarms, and IN whose pocket was
! thrust an amnesty on which the ink was not yet
dry began to assal the Legislature as body OF pie
beian usurpers, rustCs, clodhOppers, cheats rogues
and swindlers nterlopers and ntruders, not recog-
nized by the rebel social circle of Nashville and
| Memphis presumptious knaves and unmannerIy
rogues who, after wckedly opposing the cause OF
the beloved South, impudently presumed to thrust
themselves betwxt the proptlOus winds OF once ana
the tawdry, brass eweled and rumple-feathered no
bility of political chivalry. No cessation has oc-
CURED in this work Of detractOn up to the present
time on the contrary, the flock of political harPies
which have returned to screech and dutter ana us
/ charge in their accustomed haunts, as IN days OF
yore, appear as numerous, as dIscordant, and as
sinking as ever. perpetual call ond response ara
kept I'D by these ill-omined birds OF night. Nash
vile calls to Memphis, and Memphis responds to
the head center OF treason, adding the RED Lghts
of burning negro churches and school houses to in
crease the attraction of the spectacle. Brownlow
Fletcher, Trimble, Arnell. Ogre! Vampyrc! Jaco-
bin and Red Republican these are the sweet
voices Of the night which the Lucfers Of rebellion
and treason keep up in Tennessee. How long TIL:
clamor is to last We cannot tell II It Is TO be KEPT
up until the inhexible and heroic men against whom
it is directed succumb its violence it will last for
ever for it has no more errOrs than the sraWs OF
pigmy would have upon giant. The Union mem
bers of the Tennessee Legislature and the patriotic
officers of the State Government will do their duty
regardless of the abuse and nvectves of an unscru
pulous, unprincipled, malicious rebel press, whose
heart is hot with fire from the pit. In fact if seedy
needy sarveing politicians and editors prefer to o.
rebels STILL in spite of the experience OF four ooody
years, their abuse will be welcomed as the highes
possible encomium that an honest man can have 6y
every true Union man in Tennessee, especially BY
those in whose hands have been placed the contro
of the affairs of State. These men are gold trlec
and refined in the fire of persecution. They were
faithful and true and their impudent defamers know
il while thew utter their calumnies. They can bt
neither frightened nor bribed. They stand on the
rock of nationality, and there they mean to remain
and laugh at the reptiles which crawl around it
| base ashrilLe Press and Times,