The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1866-04-21
PRENTICE ION BROwNLOW
A Fierce Diatribe against our Dc.
lighttul Governor,
Fighting the Devil with Fire"

From thu Louisville Jonrnal,l
Parson Brownlow, the Irrpyprcnd
Governor Of Tennessee, has published
one Of his Enthusiastically low and
dirty articles about us in the Knoxville
Wing. In that article he has not sta.
ted Il single truth, or anything approx.
mating to truth. Whenever he sits
down to abuse anybody, lies cluster
around IBIS pen like blue-bottle flies
around a horses ears in July or Au.
gust. LIE lies with his pen, lies with
his tongue, lies with his gestures, lies
through every pore Of his yellow and
sIlrivellca hide. Lies issue from his
mouth like the horned loclsts from the
throat Of that Other great beast des-
cribed in the Apocalypse. He is prob
ably the father Of as many lies as
the horned and tailed master he serves.
The Parson is now a fierce aboli-
ZIONIST. He goes as far in radicalism
as the lowest and the worst radical in
the nation. He would gladly battle his
hands and feet and wash his face in
the blood Of every man who is not a
radical. But this disposition Of his is
of recent origin. In May, 1860, when
the tire-eaters, among whom he claimed
to be 4 leader, brokeup the Democrat
ic party by forcing two Democratic
candidates upon it with the settled
purpose of getting Mr.. Lincoln elected,
and then using his election as 4 preteXt
to destroy the Union, he was probably
more ferocious against the radicals,
more vengeful and revengeful toward
them than any other editor in the
country. The following from a letter
orhis, dated May, 1860, to the Rev.
Mr.. Prync, a Northern man, whom he
hated with u liendish hate for having
defeated him overwhelmingly in II pub
lie controversy at Philadelphia, will
show what sort Of position he occu-
pied at that time:
"But, sir, the South can in two
months enter into an alliance either
with England or France, commercial
and political, offensive and defensive,
and in either case it will be utter ruin
to the Northern States of this Confcdc-
racy. England and France want our
Rice, Tobacco, and Cotton, but they
don't want the manufactures of New
England. An alliance between Eng
land and these Southern States will
break the existing tariff system, dis
eliminating in favor of New England
manufactures, AS rope of sand, and
scatter all your hopes to the winds, and
coming at once IL 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. Whenever such
an alliance shall he formed, and our
cotton and products are landed at ci-
thcr Liverpool or Havre, and pur-
chased again at high rates, New Eng
land will see the handwriting on the
Will! |, sir, mouM .faror an alliance
wM France is u means of more ell. c
tually Furnishing and starving out the
Abolitionists of the North. The far
seeing monarch OF the French would
unite with Us on orr own terms. rs it
would afford him an opportunity to
crush the commerce and manufactures
ofOld England, and make her feel that
she is dependent upon her ancient enc,
my. as well us atone for yillainous
treatment OF his illustrious uncle. Ma.
uoleon Banapartc. Dissolve this Union,
Won Infamous villains, and We shall
make this proposition at once to Louis
NAPOLEON, 4 most sagacious monarch
and he would quarter at New Orleans
100000 Frrnchmen, and at Chesapeake
100000 more: we would then com
mand the Mississippi Valley, whip tho
Northwestern States into Southern
Confcdcracy, and we would then turn
upon the New England States, anc
cause the hurricane Of civil war to rage
and sweep from M;son's and DiNon''
lire to the cod.lsheries of Maine, unit
we would extinguish the last abolition
toothold on the continent of America
. Face to face, knife to knife, steel t.
steel, and pike to pike. we would NEE
on, and ns We would cause you t.
bleed ut every pore, we would make .yo,
rcgrct in the bitter agonics of dealt
that YOU had eycr felt any concern TO
the African race! Sir, if the fanaticaI
wicked, and internal curse pursued h.
YOU and your unprincipled associates i
continued. the result will be, rs hay
said, and you or your childran vii
live to see it. Pale-taccd poverty AM
dis,nav are staring some of your manu
tacturcrs and operatives in the face
We arc sending our orders to Englan'
and France for goods, and drlvlh
your ll-deserving freedom shriekcr
into the holding of Union meeting
and making these against their Will
curse all agitators of the slavery quc'
ton, and resolve that John Brown an
his murdcrous associates got only jul
ticc when hung at Charlestown! Carr
on your war, if you choose death rattle
than life, and we we will stain ever
swamp in the South with yours an
our own blood, and with the vengeant
of an infuriatcd foe we will be upo
YOU in the North, ut the hour Of nit
night, and as long as a l%ucifcr mate
can be found VIC will burn up your SUI
stance"
Hrownlow was for having all the!
horrors perpctrated if the fanatics
the North should keep up their warfa
upon slavery, that is, if they should
exactly what he himself afterwards, al
very soon afterwards did-did befo
slavery was abolished by the war. /
was for a battle of sections II Il
Northern fanatics should continue the
clamor; he was for IN alliance ofte
sive and defensive, in that event, !
tween the Southern States and Fran
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