The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-05-25
ment-and never paying a dime.

| vile for alleged frauds as q mule contractor
during the war. IF the old wretch were
not worse than beast, or two beasts (he
could be cut up into dozen), he would
not assume Mr.. Henderson's guilt before it
| is proved. We have assurances from high
| sources that Mr.. Henderson is certain 10 be
honorably acquitted, and we have not
| doubt of it.
| awe have aver considered him and do
consider him gentleman Of strict integri-
ty; and the only witness against him in the
Nashville trial is an internal swindler and
scoundrel by his own sworn confession.
But, be that ; it may, we are not respon-
sible, and thJ louisville Journal is not re-
spousible f1 Mr.. Henderson's business
transactions. His business has at alIs ilfes.
been outside the Journal Office. There is
not man in Louisville who has had less %
do than he with the management of this
paper, or even of its business affairs.
He has never sought to have anything
whatever to do with it's management If
the Old Spawn of Sin at Nashville has the
slightest evidence, amounting to even the
thousandth part of the shadow of a sus-
picion, that we have st any time been in
Volved in the matters charged against Mr..
Henderson, let him bring it forth. And
if he has no evidence, not even the most
infnitesimal-as he has not-let the people
of Tennessee decide for themselve what sort
of Governor (oh shamel that the title
must be used, they are cursed with.
''He has 10 scrupies as to what charges
he makes against men; he always invents
the very worst and most Infamous he can,
and makes them. This is his only rule.
He has no more regard for truth than the
common father of himself and sin. He
breeds lies as Satan's wives or concubines
breed imps, or as flies breed maggots. If
he didn't fill the atmosphere around him
| with lies be couldn't breathe it; be would
die like rat in an exhausted receiver.
''Lies are his meat, his drink, his lodg-
ing, his transportation, his whisky, his
snuff and bis tabacco. If we had the slight
est occasion to prove our incorruptability in
opposition to his imputatiOns we could do
it by showing that we repeatedly declined
during the war to be the richest man in
Kentucky. But wig yer heard or ever
will auuef that abs old scoundrel's
resistin s siatss8!
'Brownlow has ever been traitor and
talked as q traitor and written as traitor,
except when he hoped that he could make
political or pecuniary speculation by an
affectatiOn of loyalty. As long agOas 1856
he said in book.
al take my stand with the friends of the
institution of slavery in the South. Con-
nected wi II this question, IS fai
as the next man-even to dgss5s s555 the las
ditch"
''After the breaking out of the rebellion
he assumed for time to be loyal and go
into a rebel prison. AS soon as he got ou
he published number of his paper violent
ly denounciug any attempt on the part o.
the Federal Government to put down the
rebellion. tie tauntingIy told the NOrtt
that they would have quite as much as they
could do to take care of themselves without
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better look at home. His paper contained
several articles all of the same character
"And here we will state another fact il
regard to him which We are authorized Il
state. He determined to advocate the cleo
ton of a rebel to represent the Knoxvill
district in the rebel Congress. He had al
editorial article ready and in type. wher
Judge CT Trigg and John Williamson
, Esq, labored with him for hours to preven
+, his paper from taking the secession side
We can refer 10 Judge Trigg. United State
, Judge of Tennessee, for the truth of thi
statement.
''The Judge subsequently alluded to tn
, matter in speech at Memphis, saying tia
. if he hadn't been as good Union man a
he was, Browulow wouldn't have been a
, good Union man as he was. But Brown
low concluded that it was for his interest t
affect unionism, and so he affected it.
? at is pretty extensively believed il
D Nashville that Brownlow is insane. W
: don't believe it. Insanity has been defnet
q to be the ENHANCEMENT of thought but b
e hasn't thoughts enough to make tangle
4 "'Tis pity fol. him that he isn't insane
' for it would be the only excuse, utter men
s tai imbecility excepted, for the disgrace b
2 is inficting upon the State in which b
T dwells.
"He calls himself man Of God. H
: PROCESSES to be a messenger Of peace an
r good will 10 men," He holds himself u
] or out as a saint ordained aud annointed t
: establish the spirit of Christianity amoul
9 mankind. But he has ever promote,
: sGrifes. and fights and blOOdshed in neigh
e boFhOods.
r He has been pest, an itch. leprosy,
= yellow plague in every community. He ha
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