The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-05-05
Prentice on BrOwplOw.

Parson Brownlow, the irreverend Cows
ernOr of Tennessee, has published one of
his characteristically low and dirty articles
about qls. savslt the IseuisEille Journal, in the
Knoxville Whig In that article he has not
stated Il single truth, or anything approx
mating to atruths = Whenever he7sets down
to abuse anybody, hes cluster around his
pen like blue-bottled flies around horses
ears in July or August He lies with his
pen, lies with his tongue. lies with his ies-
lures, lies through every pore of his yellow
and shriveled hide, Lies issue from his
mouth like hornedslocusts from the throat Of
that other great beast mentioned in the
Apocalypse. He EissprehFbiy the father of
as many lies as the horned and tailed mon
ster he serves. 1ls sfga1a ar+elr7 fzaI2uE1
The Parson is nov. fierce AbolitiOnist.
He goes as far into radicaIism as the lowest
and worst radical in the nation. He would
gladly battle his feet and wash his face in
the blood of every man who is not. a radical
But this disposition of his is of recent
origin In May, 1860, he was probably
more ferociOus against the radicals, more
vengeful and revengeful toward them than
any other editor in the country In 1860,
writing to the ReY Mr.. -Pryne, a Northern
man whom he hated with a iendish hate
! for having defeated him overwhelmingly in
| a public controversy, he said, 4" l. sir, would
favor an alliance with France as a means Of
more effectually Furnishing and starving out
! the AboltiOnists of the North. The far
seeing monarch Of the French would unite
! with us on our own terms X x, Sir,
! if the fanatical, wicked, and Internal course
/ pursued by you and your unprincipled asso-
ciates is continued, the result will be as |
/ have said. Garry on your war if you choose,
and we win stain every swamp in the South
with yours and our own blood, and with the
vengeance Of an infuriated foe, we viii be
upon you In the North, at the hour Of mid
nighB, and as long as lueifeF match can be
found we will burn up your subsistence.
BrOwnlow was for having all these hor-
rors. perpetrated if the fanatics of the North
should keep up their war upon slavery
| that Is, if they should do exactly what he
himself afterward, and very soon afterward,
did did before slavery was abolished by the
/ war He was for battle of sections, if the
Northern fanatics should continue their
cIamOr ne was for an alliance, offensive
and defensive, IN that event, between the
Il Southern States and France or England be
was for havipgcFrance place 100000 men
at New Orleans. and 100000 men at Chesa
peak he was for taking possession OF the
whole Mississippi valley from the Baiieze to
the Falls Of St Anthony, whipping the
Northwestern States into his Southern Con
federacy, and then turning upon New Eng
land and causing the Hurricane Of civil wal
to rage from Mason and Dixon line the
codfsheries of the North, and burning the
sNorthern cities and towns with the midnight
torch And these were not his views and
resolves as q hOt-headed boy or person II
the prime Of life; they were the malignant
declarations of a white~haired, gray-beardec
old man, upwards Of fifty, if not fully sixty
years Of age They7weFe- the utteraRees q
a preacher, Of a pretended dispenser OF th'
Gospel Of Christ, Of one calling himself {
man of God No traitors IN all the SOutl
have ever exhibited more OF the helllst
spirit Of treason than be. He pub isheC
the internal language we have cited wheI
{ / perhaps d o other man IN the world Woui,
would have defled his mouth or paper will
it 10 save his neck from the hapgman's bal
ter He showed himself a walking volcano
) with snow upon his peak and all he'll In IN
t bOsom ,ststl IN. .ed u
+ 1t is most extraordinary and most dis
graceful that any portion Of the people 0
Tennessee, knowing this man as they al
j did, voted to make him Governor Of tha
: State. Their only excuse must be that the
were under martial law, and 50 not-reall
free agents IA his election. No other stat
was ever afflicted and disgraeed and curse
j with such an unredeemed-and irredeemabl
blackguard as her Chief Magistrate. He
parody a carieature, broad burlesque G
p all possible Governors He is a m0nstroslE5
B He Is a thing as much cut OF nature 2
t Barnums W0oly horse, 81 his giants an
; dwarls, OF his calf with two heads ana elgl