Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-10-28
ded as a mistaken policy. but for other

important disclosures
The Hon. HENRY STANBERRY, who was known
to be man Of first rate ability as lawyer ofun-
blemiShed reputation, PROFESSIONALLY, morally
and socially. Of ripe age. and in all things preem
inently quaifsd for one Of the Judges OF the SUI
preme Court, was nominated by the President to
I'll the vacancy occasioned by the death Of the
lamentcd Judge CATRON. and because of the
known opposition of Mr. STASBERRY TO the de-
suuetiye policy Of these Radicals, and certainty
of being unable 20 mould him TO their wishes.
they rejected his nomination. Then 70 cover up
this wanton partizan trick they determined there
should be no more appointments until the present
number of Ju iges were from any cause) reduced
below six. / could multiply instances IN support
Of this position until my time would be exausted'
but this IS unnecessary as the actings OF this Con-
gress are known TO you.
Of the Radicals at the North. would could In
truth say that these things found no favor IN the
Southern States, and especially in this But 1t IS
my duty to notice party here who are now more
intOlerant than the Radicals. At the head Of the
party in this State is your Governor, with some
few Others who are, in point Of fact the elDsares
Of the Northern disunionsts and are daily co.
operating with them for the destruction OF
our present form Of government. Judging from
their declarations and actions, no ODserFanL anu
intelligent man can come to any other conclusion.
| Indulge me, while l call your attention to some
of their acts, threats and declarations that you
may see whether this charge against them IS true
or not 1t is not denied by any, at this day, that
slavery in the United States was the real cause
| Of the war.
There were two parties upon this question. One
called the anti-slayery, or abolition party, inc
| other prO-slavery party. These parties were not
! purely sectional They had their friends on either
side North and South. Gov. BRowNLow be-
| loRged to the prO-slayery party, and undertook.
| to champion that side of the question. Hewrote.
spoke. and debated IN favor Of slavery; insisting
that it was of divine origin; right to all in
| tents and purposes, and denounced, in his pecu-
mar style, az VINO dlnerea With MN On Ihs SUD
ject, and the aboliuOnists OF the North were
| denounced in unmeasured terms and threatened
with humiliation, if they persisted in their
course. You all remember his letter TO PRYEE.
| the man with whom he debated upon this subject
IN PHILADELPHIA. / have the letter. and for the
edifcation of the Governor and his friends, will,
by yOur permission, read some of the most in
| teresting points Of Il:
REV. A. PRYNE-No. Ssh: owe you an
| apology for not having disturbed your peace and
quiet, as you repose in the sweet-scented family
OfFRED. DOUGLASS editing his dirty, abolition pa
per, rendered still more filthy false and infamous
| underyOur editorial management during his visit
! to England. have been engaged in my atten-
ton 70 home matters, to the winding up the ca
reer Of your old bosom friend, JOHN BROwN, with
| whom and by the side of whom you ought to have
| pulled hemp without foothOld, OF would have
| paid my respects to you before this time. l have
| watched your movements with interest, expecting
70 hear of you being. called before the Harper's
| Ferry Investigating Committee Of the Senate, and
| had you been should have gone to Washington
| to hear you depose, as you have done one or two
| things, certain-either disclose enough to hang
several Of your Abolition associates. or swore a
| batch of lies, most probably the latter.
will make up for my delay, by the length and
| sweetness of this epistle. So let me ask you to
carefully read what write you, that you may sec
yourself as others see you-an unwashed, unmti-
| gated unregenerate and God forsaken Abolition
| list, who. if you will dare show yourself South,
| and repeat your wholesale abuse of shareholders,
and your vile reflections upon the virtue OfSouth-
ern ladies, shall be treated TO a coat of TAR AND
COTTON, and rode upon a rail by free negroes and
| Northern prostitutes, such as are skulking about
| in our large towns and cities!
| Sir, you are q Congregational minister. and
sec from newspaper notices that you have been
| desecrating the Sabbath by attempting to preach
| the Gospel Of Christ; and when you have per-
hnwn
| cation Of KNAvEs and FOOLS, for two hours, upon
the subject Of slavery, you turn round and publish
with hypocrltlcal cant, that you PREACHED at sueh
| church, ON such subject You profess to be
follower of Christ talk much about the pretended
Piety of the South, yet in nowse do you follow in
| the footsteps of your Lord or you aetuated by
| the spirit Of His religion HIS WAS OF PEACE,
| YOURS OF THE SWORD. His was forbearance,
| YOURS ASSAULT UPON UN9EFENDlNG
| WOMEN AND CHILDREN. EVEN UNTO
| DEATH. He purchased no weapons, even to be
| turned upon his enemies; while yours is the re-
ligion Of the bO'e5elnVe the rite the reUotUer and
| the Connecticut pike You propose to turn the
brutal negro upon unsuspeeting white men and the
| defeneeless white women, and see them glOat on
murder and rapine. He weuld gather little child
rem TO His bosom, saying, of such is the kingdom
/ of heayen;" while you propose to have them IN
Discriminatory butchered, for the alleged offence
| He consoled the single sisters of a departed
Christian, while you propose to cOnsign innocent
| white girls of your own race to the brutal en-
brace of a set of lnturlated Africans. tie taught
His followers to render to CESAR the things that
| are CRsARs, while you boast of stealing slaves,
recognized by the Bible and the American Con
| stitutiOn as property. l. therefore, cannot ad-
dress you as a minister of the Christian religion,
| or a follower of the meek and lOwly Lamb Of GoD;
but as a heartless, unfeeling unprinoipled kRdUe,
| too wise and well educated to act without viii
famous purpose, too little religion to be fanatic,
| but possessing the power to mako fools, knaves,
| and fanatics of others. In the house Of GOD, on
| Sunday, you boast of having raised money TO in
| cite instruction in Kansas, and when the damn
! ing deed was done, you exclaim, " All honors to
fr1u ali Ipug aud ne how Npm
| send men to apply the torch to your neighbor's
| dwelling, and excite black men to murder white
| men, approving of the Harper's Ferry fOray, then
| say you only wish to liberate the slgUes! Such
infamous conduct no reason can Justify, no honest
| heather can approve.
But, sir the South can in two months enter into
an alliance with either England or France, com
fmercial or political, offensive and defensive, and
in atheT case il will be utter ruin to the Northern
| 81 this Confederacy. England and France
| VI rice, tobacco and cotton, but they do
| q he manufactures Of New England. An
| an between England and these Southern
States will break the existing tariff system, dis
! eliminating in favor of New England manufactO-
ries, as rope Of sand and scatter all your hopes
| to the winds, and coming at once IN 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 be formed, and
our cotton and other products are landed at either
| Liverpool or Havre, and purchased again at high
rates. New England will see the handwriting on
| the wall!
| /, sir, ioould fdUor an alliance ,oith France as
| means of more efectualy Furnishing and starving
out the AbolitiOnists of the North. The far-seeng
| monarch of the French would unite with
| our terms, as it would afford him OppOr-
| tunity to crush the commerce aud manufactures
| of old England, and make her feel that she is de-
| pendent upon her ancient enemy, as well as atone
| for villainOus treatment of his iustriOus uncle,
| NAPOLEON BoNAPARTE. Dissolve this Union. you
| infamous villains and we shall make this propO-
| sitiOn at once TO LOUIS NAPOLEON, a most saga
ciOus monarch, and he would quarter at New
Orleans 100000 Frenehmen, and at Chesapeake
l Nj rorlA han, h., Mse
sissipp Valley, tchip The Northwestern States into
| 0URS0UTHERN CONFEDERCY, and we would
then turn upon the. New England States. and
cause the hurricane Of civil war to rage and sweep
from Mason and DixOn's line to the cod fisheries
o! Maine, until We would extinguish the last A bo
lion fOOthOld on the continent of Americal Face
to face knife to knife steel TO STEEL and pike to
pike we would meet you. and as we would cause
you to bleed at every pore zoe ,CoHtd wake re
0ref, IN the bitter dgOHles Of death. that you had
ever felt any concern for the African race.
Sir. if the fanatical wicked. and internal course
pursued by you and your unprincipled associates
is continued, THE RBSULT WILL BE as have
said, and you and your children will live to see it,
Pale-faced poverty and dismay are already staring
some Of your manufacturers and operatives
in the face. We are sending our orders to Eng
land and France for goods, and driving your hell
deserving Observation-Disclosures into holding Of
Union meetings and making these against their
ICits. curse all agltators of the slavery question:
and resolve that JOHN BROwN and his murdeFous
associates got only justice when hung at Charles
town. Garry on your war, If you choose death
The SOath ,Vith yours and our blood, and with
the vengeance of an Infatuated foe we viii be up
on you in the North, at the hour Of midnight,
and rs long as a lucifer match can be found, we
will burn up your substance.
Now, Mr.. Payne. may ask you and your fell
low labOrers in the cause Of che deDl to pause
and lift the veil of the future not quarter of
century ahead Of you and use your influence to
star the fandfcdl hand raised 10 strike the biotc Of
| run 10 pour country! Call around you a council
| of your head men and warTiOrs-SKNATOR SEWARD,
| JOSHUA r. GIDDNGs, CHASE and FRED. DOUGLASS
for w Om you are doing journey work, and go
to that victim in the lunatie asylum. GERRIr
| SMITH, whose tool you have been for years, and
upon whose money you have lived and fed your
wife and children--ask them all if you had not
better change your programme, If the response
Is not satisfactory, call q prayer meeting and
have WENDELL PHILLIPS, BEECHER, CHEEvER.
and all the lOng-fsced hypOcrites who insult GoD
and mock religion by calling upon him for merry
pray old JOHN Brown and his cOufederates cut
| Of hell where the whole batch Of you are going
J with lightning speed!
I ASK Con TO forgive you for yoDr wickedness-
pray morning. evening and noon, with your face
| towards Harper's Ferry Ask Him 10 wash your
! filthy garments from the stain Of blood Of your
I Kansas and Virginia murders, and impOrtune
Him until on get your answer-'g0 and sin no
! more-sin no longer against your conscience and
| vour country's laws and Constitution. Don't pray
1 for Heaven for no power can qualify you to walk
I the streets Of the New Jerusalem Don't ask for
| mercy for the winged messengers can never light
I on such mean and detestable creatures. Don't ask
| 10 be puuished in he'll for that would be made