The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1866-05-15
From the Louisville Journal,
Prentice on HroWnloH.

Pafson Browlnow, iKfevernd. governor of /
Tennessee, has published one Of his eharaet.}
eristicalIy low and dirty articles about "a In /
the kroxville Wig. In that article he hae |
nos stated single nutA. or anything proxi-
mating TO truths Whenever he eiss dovr
to abuse any body, lies cluster around his
pen like hiue-bostled flies around horse,s~l
ears 10 July or Augut. He lies with II
pen, lies with his tongue. lies with his 2
tures, lies through every pore Of his yeilc v |
and shriveled hide. Lies issue from his |
mouth like the horned locusts from the throat /
OF that other great beast described In the APP |
ocalypse. BE in probably the father of
~ many lies as the horned and tailed master
he serves. |
The parson Is now a fierce abolitionist.-
He goes as far in radicllsm ~ the lowest and |
worst radical IN the nation. He would glad !
ly battle his hands and feet and wash his
face in the blood of every man who il not
radical.
II is most extraordinary and most disgrace
fulfhat any portion Of the people of Tennes-
see, knowing this man a. they all did. voted to
make him governor of that state. No other
| state was ever afflicted and disgraced and
cursed with such IN unmitigsted and unmit-
igabls, such an unredeemed and irredeemable
backyard as her chief magistrate. He is
parody, . caricatufe, broad burlesaue on all
| possible governors. He 10 q monssrosity. -
| He il o thing as much out Of nature an Bar
| NUNS woody horse or his giants and dwarfs or
| his calf with two heads and eight legs-four
| of the lega pointing toward the zenith. His
blood 10 heel-broth, which satan will one day
sup with long spoon. They say there 10
| fra IN him. bus it Is hell-fre, every particle
| of ii. Though he il bat a single swine, there
| are a. many devils in him as there were in
the whole herd that ran violently down q
| steep place into the sea-" His heart 10 moth
| ing but kissing knot of vipefs, rsttlesnakes,
| and cotton-mouths. He never argued a ques-
tion in his life, approaching no subject but
| with fierce, bitter. coarse, low and vulgar OBJ
jurgations. His tongue should be bored thro'
| and through with his steel pen, heated red
hot.
This man, a. we have said calls himself
clergyman. He holds forth in pulpits. He
breaches, prays and exhorts, draws down his
face, drops the corners of his mouth and
undertakes TO LOOK sanc,lmonious. And yet
he seems always trying, in his pul pit dis-
courses, 20 see under how thin disguise he
can venture TO curse and swear and bias
pheme. He can't offer up prayer in the
house Of God without telling the Lord what
an internal scoundrel, damned thief or ours
ed yagabond, this that or the other neighb0r
; is.
From his youth up to his old age he has
I
lacking the wives, fathers, mothers, grand
fathers. grandmothers, brothers, sisters,
children, uncles, aunts and nephews Of his
> opponents. He has sought TO strew his
whole path OF life with the dark wrecks oil
wantonly ruined regulations. de has never
had an hours happiness except in the nnhap'
|. plness of others. He has ever said to evil
BE thou my good % lie has always care.
fully josted down all that he heard unfavora
: bic to gentlemen while protesting to De their
friend, so as to be ready for the aaY OF alien
alton. He bowls venom, talks venom, coughs
| venom, sneezes venom. spits venom, droo!:
: venom, sweats venom, stInks venom and dis
= tits venom from his nose. Not the fuiigIaou.
: exhalations from the bottomless pit, not tnt
. ire-and birthstone fumes from the sootJ
Is th -oat of the Devil, were ever more blighuns
? and blasting than his accursed serpen
2 breath. He nsver he'd friend on earth ort
side Of his own taml y. No doubt there n
IT those who fear him for his tendish fero-lsy
e but n human beng not Of his own house
:, hold ever loved or respected him. lie vii
= yet hare his reward. Sowing In wrath h
will reap in agony. Fury and hate may sti
:, fie in his heart the feeling of remorss for
= time but Nemesis, with her horrfd whip. vii
II yet scourge him around the whole orb of be
.e ing. All the hairs upon his head will seen
IS to nm to be snakes like the Kissing anc
II When he shall retire, as he soon must, from
At the noisy aud tumulsGous strifes that hav'
g ever engaged, and still engage all hi
'e thoughts, he will not hare solitary plessan
ana serene memory of the past. On she con
:. trary, a store of bitter and desolate and tor
:, turing recoIlecsions will enrrode and eat u
: his very heart.until cut from all human sym
= pathiss, exiled from the pale Of all the beau
j. tifui genialities of life, having no friends o.
1npanions around him to soothe him in hi
re moral and physical solitude, deserted b
At mankind, whose enemy he has been, anC
e, Ioathed by God, whose holy temples be ha
n saoriIegionsl7 dssec-ated by his horrid mock
n eriss Of religion, fostering from head to foo
with the polluted and poisonous puddle wa
II ter of his veins. standing an outcast an
z pariah ono the lone desert of despair, shrink
: ing IRON the past, agonized by the present
= and nat daring to gaze into the future, be
holding in infancy on the door of his osr
soul the words, slope comes not here tina
il comes at all" shut out by murkiest cloud
y from every star that TO others lights the patti
q to>the tomb. and wrishing under myriad e1rs
e= and excavations pile up like mountain c
u living Goals upon his head, he shall long g
D last to make his escape from earth-scarcel.
p asking to what more dreadful destiny.
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