The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1866-05-19
PRENTICE ON WINDOW.
A Finishing Stroke.
From the Louisville Journal. 14th inst

Old Gov. BrOwnlOw, after keeping
the filthy hole in his face shut for
weeks, comes out with another attack
upon us in his Knoxville Wing, which
has even been a disgrace to Knoxville,
to Tennessee, to civilization, and to
unclvilization. lie never had mind
enough to keep his body from rotting
consequently he has always been a
mass Of qualification he has never had
sufficient common sense to last him
over night, so that he wakes up Il mis-
cradle fool every morning; and this
last effort of his in his Wing is the
poorest, the fceblest, the %jcjunest, the
most contemplate that we have seen
even from him. 1t doesn't rise even
to the level Of %invectivc.
There is no more talent in the wri,
ting than in the scratchings Of a dung
bill fowl upon a dung-hill. 1t is mere
concatention of vulgar epithcts and
lies lie lies for which there is not so
much us the thin and shadowy ghost
Of a preteXt. 1t is the simple raving
of a broken-down, Infatuated weak old
man or o-man-so weak. that, like
the lean dog we read Of. he has to lean
against Il fence to do his barking. All
the little atom of sense he ever had
if he eve had an atom-has gone to
the grave before him-but no much be-
fore him it is to be hoped for mankind's
sake.
He has no right to be still haunting
''the glimpse Of the moon" He is a
loatlsome tistula Of the body polite.
He is n NANCY old dog-a disgrace to
his own lcas. He is q foul bubble
floating on the surface of u cess-pool.
We, Cine senior editor Of the Jour
nal } shall give very few words to an
swcring the charges made by this
wrctched old being against us. A thou,
sand such creatures could not put us
seriously On the defensive.
He talks about our furnishing during
the war mules, corn, guns and pistols
ia pursuance Of large contracts with
the Government. We didn't furnish Il
mule or a grain Of corn or any other
article in all the war, and we had no
interest in common with anybody that
did. If we sold a few guns and pistols,
it was our own business as much as
publishing the Knoxville Wing is
Brownlow's; we didn't have, or ASH,
or want the Governments consent.
We sold to individuals undcra Louis
vile license, just rs the other ncwspa-
per offices in this city did, and only to
individuals. We owe nothing to
the Government for favors during the
war. We didn't make a farthing out
Of the Government; on the contrary,
suffered to the amount ofthousands
by its Selling our private property in
Nashville, for the defense Of that city,
promise Of payment-and never
u dime.
The poor old devil undertakes to
hold us responsible for what is charg-
I'd against Mr.. Henderson, the owner
Of a minor interest in our paper, who
IS on trial at Nashville for alleged
as q mule contractor during the
war, If the old wretch were not worse
han Il beast, or two beasts Che should
DC cut up into u Dozen he would not
assume Mr.. llcndcrson's guilt before
{ is proved. We have assurances from
iigh sources that Mr.. Henderson is
certain to be honorably acquitted, and
We have not Il doubt Of it.
We have ever considered him and do
consider him a gentleman of strict in
and the only witness against
i'm in the Nashville trial is an Internal
windler and scoundrel by his own
worn confession. But, be that as it
nay, We are not responsible, and the
louisville Journal is not responsible
or Mr.. Hcnderson's business transac-
His business has at all times
'ecn outside of the journal Office.
There is not u mar in Louisville who
las had less to do than he with
he management of this paper, or even
# its business affairs.
He has never sought to have anything
whatever to do with its management.
t the Old Spawn of Sin at Nashville
las the slightest evidence, amounting
o even the thousandth part of the
hadow of suspicion, that we have ut
my time been involved in the matters
'harged against Mr.. Henderson, let
bring it forth. And if he has no
violence, not even the most intinitesi-
nal--as he has not-let the people of
decide for themselves what
ort of Governor (oh shame! that the
tile must be uscd,) they are cursed
With.
lIIlas no scruplcs as to what charges
e makes against men; he always in
cnts the very worst and most infa-
nous he can, and makes them. That
) his only rule. He has no more re
ard for truth than the common father
+ himself and sin. He breeds lies as
wives or concubincs breed imps,
1 avs h''H pitNN IL nc VltiIl
Ill the atmosphere around him with
les he couldn't breathe it; he would
lie like Il rat in an exhausted receiver.
Lies are his meat, his drink, his ,
his transportation, his wills
ey, his snuff and his tobacco. If we
ad the slightest occasion to prove
ur incorruptibility in opposition to
is imputations we could do it by
howing that we respectively declined {
uring the war to be the richest man in t
.entucky. But who has ever heard or ,
yer will hear Of that abominablc old 4
roundrels resisting atemptation? +
BrOwnlow has ever been a traitor i
nd talked rs a traitor and written rs a ,
except when he hoped that he |
ould make a political or ~pecuniary =,
p%eculation by an affection of loyalty. {
IS long ago AS 1856 ne said in a book: I
81 take my stand with the friends Of
institution of slavery in the South.
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