The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-04-24
A REMINISCENCE.
parson BrownloW, Past and present.

dated May, 1860, in which the Parson
gives his views sofAbolitionists, of and ia
vors French alliance to sustain slav-
cry and whip the North. The letter
shows that the Parson is latter day
convert, while every line ofitis perfect
ly characteristic ofthe man. The Par
son wrote: rs
But, sir, the South can in two months
enter into an alliance with either Eng
land or France, commercial and politi-
| cal offensive and defensive, and in either
| case it win be utter ruin to the Northern
States of this Confederacy. England and
| France want our rice, tobacco and cot
ton, but they don't want the manufnc-
lures of New England. An alliance
between England and these Southern
| States, will break the existing tariff
system, discriminating in favor ofNew
| England d-manufaCtories, 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. When
ever 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
I, sir, would favor an alliance with
France as a means of more etfectually
furnishing and starving out the Abo-
litionists of the North. The far-seeing
monarch of the French would unite
with us on our own terms, as 1t would
afford him an opportunity to crush the
commerce and manufactures of OldEng-
| land and nuke her feel that she is depen-
dant upon her ancient enemy, as wen
| as atone for villianous treatment OF his
| illustrious uncle, Napoleon Bonaparte.
| Dissolve this Union, YOU infamous VIII
| lians, and we shall make this PROPOSE
| ton at once to Louis Napoleon, most
sagacious monarch, and he would quar-
ter ut New Orleans 200, 600 Frenchmen,
and at Chesapeake 200, 900 more; we
would then command the Mississippi
| Valley, whip the Northwestern States
| into our Southern Confederacy, and we
would dthenturnu upon the New England
States, and cause the hurricane OF civil
war to rage and sweep from Mason and
Dixon's line to the codfisheries of
Maine, until lve pould ertinguiSh the last
| abolition Jo0th0ld on the continent Of
AmeTica Face to face, knife TO knife,
steel to steel and pike to pike, we would
meet you, and rs we would cause you
to bleed ut every pore, we would MAKE
you regret in the bitter dgonieS Of death,
that y0uhdd eUerJ felt any concern JoT the
african race.
Sir, if the fanatical, wicked and infer
nal course pursued by You and your
| unprincipled associates is continued,
the result will be as have said, and
YOU and your children will live to see
| it. Pale faced poverty and dismay are
staring some of your manufacturers
and operatives in the face. We are
sending our orders to England and
France for goods, and driving your hell
deserving freedom shriekers into the
holding Of Union meetings, and making
these against their wills, curse all agi-
taters of the slavery question, and re-
solve that John Brown and his murder
ous associates got only Justice when
hung at Char1estown! Carry on your
war if YOU choose death rather than
life, and we will stain every swamp in
the South with yours and our own
blood, and with the vengeance ofan in
ruriated foe we will be upon you in the
| North, at the hour of midnight, and as
| long as n lucifer match can be found
we will burn up your substance.
1t is most extraordinary and disgrace
ful that any portion q the people Of
Tennessee, knowing this man as they
all did, voted to make him Governor of
that State. No other State was ever
afflicted and disgraced and cursed with
such an unmitigated and unmttigable,
such an unredeemed and lrredeemable
blaczguard as her Chief Magistrate.
he is II parody, a caricature, broad
| burlesque on all possible governors.
| They say there is fire in him, but 1t IS
I.hellStire, every particle of it. Though
| he is but II single swine, there are as
| many devils in him as there were in
the whole herd that iran violently
down a steep place into the sea-" His
heart is nothing buta kissing knot of
vipers, rattlesnakes, cobra and cotton
mouths. He never argued a question
| in hislife, approaching no subject but
with fierce, bitter, coarse, low and Vul-
gar obiurgations. His tongue should
be bored through and through with his
This man, as we have said, calls him
self clergyman. He holds forth in
pulpits. He breaches, prays and ex-
| horts, draws down his fuce, drops the
! corners of his mouth, and undertakes
to look sanctimonious. And yet he
seems always trying in his pulpit dis
courses to see under how thin disguise
he can venture to curse and swear and
blaspheme. He can't offer up a prayer
in the house of God without telling the
Lord what an intertIal scoundrel,
damned thief. or cursed vagabond, TINS,
that or the other neighbor is. From his
youth up to his old age, he has had no
personal controversies without attack
ing the wives; fathers, mothers, grand
fathers, grandmothers, brothers, sisters.
children, uncles, aunts and nephews of
his opponents.
This will do, Dut it affords only an
idea of the bitterness of speech that
marks the rest of the article, which,
from beginning to end, is most scath-
ing invective, much of it decidedly un-
fit for our columns.
a NOVEL wAaER.-An amusing story
is going the rounds of the Paris clubs.
It appears that short time ago for
eigh prince made heavy bet that he
would be arrested by the police without
Committing any offence whatever, or in
any way provoking the authorities.