Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-05-03
Prentice on Brownlow.
Our Delightful Governor
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ally low, and dirty articles about
us in the Knoxville Wing. In
that article he has not stated a SIM
gle truth. Whenever he sits down
to abuse anybody, lies cluster
around his pen like blue-bot-
tie flies around a horses ears in Ju-
ly or August. He lies with his
pen, lies with his tongue, lies with
his gestures, lies through every
pore of his yellow and shrivelled
hide. Lies issues from his mouth
like horned locusts from the throat
of that othergreat beast mentioned
in Apocalypse. He is probably
the s'father" Of as many lies as the
horned and tailed master he serves.
The Parson is now a fierce abo-
litionist. He goes as far in radio
alism 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 white man who is not a rad.
ical. But this disposition of his
lis of recent origin. In May, 1850,
when the fire. eaters, among whom
he claimed to be a leader, broke
up the Democratic party by fore
ing two Democratic candidates up
on it with the settled purpose of
getting Mr.. Lincoln elected and
then using his election as pretext
to destroy the Union, he was prob
ably more ferocious againt the rad
icals, more vengeful and revenge
full toward them, than any other ed.
itor in the country. The following
from letter of his, dated May,
1860, to the Rev. Mr.. Pryne, a
Northern man, whom he hated
with fendish hate for having de.
feated him overwhelmingly in a
public controversy at Philadelphia,
will show what sort of position he
occupied at that time:
"But, sir, the South can in two
months enter into an alliance with
either England or France, COM
mercial and POLITICAL, offensive and
defensive, and in either case it will
be utter ruin to the Northern
States of this Confederacy. Eng
land and France want our Rice,
Tobacco, and Cotton, but they
don't want the manufactures Of
New England. An alliance be-
tween England and these South.
ern States, will break the exist.
ing tariff system, discriminating
in favor of New England manu-
factories, as a 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 pro.
lection which has built up all your
cities and towns, you must be de;
stroyed. Whenever such an ALI.
ance shall be formed, and our cot.
ton and other products are landed
at either Liverpool or Havre, and
purchased again at high rates.
New England will see the hand.
writing on the wall!
81, sir, would favor an alliance
with France as a means of more
effectually furnishing and starv-
ing out the abolitionists of the
North. The far seeing monarch
of the French would unite with
us on our own terms, as it would
afford him an opportunity to crush
the commerce and manufactures
Of Old England, and make her
feel that she is dependent upon
her ancient enemy, as well as
atone for villainous treatment of
his illustrious uncle, Napoleon b.
naparte. Dissolve this Union,
you Infamous villains, and we shall
make this proposition at once to
Louis Napoleon, a most sagacious
monarch, and he would quarter at
New Orleans 100000 Frenchmen,
and at Chesapeake 100000 more !;
we would then command the Mis-
sissippi Valley, whip the North
western States into our Southern
Confederacy, 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 of Maine, until we would
extinguish the last abolition foot
hold on the continent of Ameri-
ca! Face to face, knife to knife,
steel to steel, pike to pike we would
meet you, and as we would cause
you to bleed at, every pore, we
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