The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-09-01
A Dead Dog--A Live Minister.

President johnson dead dog. If SO,
Brownlow is brave enough to attack
him. And if johnson is dead dog
who would not rather be in his place
than to bear the name of Brownlow,
the reeking, cowardly. red-mouthed,
radical, lecherous, treacherous, ranting,
praying, disappearing, carved lava of
hell, now sitting as Governor of Ten
nessee! In all the annals of sinners,
whelps, hypocrites, dissemblers, luna
tics, blackguards, and blood-loving
hyenas of humanity, we know not one
so saturated with hate and birthstone
as this lantern-jawed structure, digni-
fed in sarcasm, with the name Of man.
Who is BrOwnlow? He is a reckless
radical adventurar. He is an ordained
minister of the gospel. He is an ille-
climate child of hell, let loose on spec
ulation. He is a blasphemous old
tyrant-a drunken politicians dis
honest GOVERNOR bigger traitor at
heart than ever was John Brown, Thad.
Stevens, or any others of that corps of
Union haters. He is minister with
out religion; apreacher without con-
vert, Governor without brains. He
has the tongue of a bedlamite of hell
"a heart without mercy; is an adven-
turer without bravery; a rascal with
out discretion libertine without
taste and decency; sinner without
the least show for heaven; man with
the'heart of fend a brute by in
stinct; rufian by nature a black
guard by profession hypocrite, GER
tain of hell-a foul, nasty, reeking sore
on the political mass of corruption, to
which he belongs; stigma dis
grace; an insult; a by-word and re-
proaeh to the list of Governors of
American States. When he prays it is
to the devil; when he sings it is the
drunken rawlings of a fend; when he
endorses it is to dam; when he loves
It's to destroy; when he speaks it is
to insult; when he interferes it is to
blaeken when he smiles it is to hide
some of the deep and diabolical villain
les his blasphemous soul is ever plan
ming. There is not devil in Pluto's
dominions but is more of a true Chris
tian-there is not pismire on the
prairie but is more of warrior-there
is not robber in prison but is more
honest-there is not beast in the for
est but is more loveable-there is not
murderer in the land but is more in
nocent-there is not fshwoman in all
Billingsgate district but is less of
blackguard-there is not lost soul in
hell but is more of q saint-there is
not name in the history of traitors
but is more patriotic-there is not
warty, sweaty, Shiny toad in all the
dungeons of the world but is sweeter,
purer and more attractive than Parson
Governor BLACKBOARD Brownlow, the
ranting, lunatic, radical whelp of the
devil, now acting as Governor of Ten
nessee. Should Butler, Stanton and
Brownlow reach hell the same day, we
would have the devil on earth at once,
for either of the above namod excres-
ences are more fit to ROB, torture and
destroy than all the satanic fends of
hell acting in concert La Crosse
wis J Democrat.
IL Personal invective, opprobrious
epitheths and billingsgate slang never
yet added anything to the force of an
argument, to the reputation of writer,
or to the success of his couse; but de-
tracts much from each and all.
It's the low scurrility and gall of
VIM. G. Brownlow, so long persisted
in, that has sunk him below the level
of common respect; for he has talents
sufficient to have given him high re-
spectability, if they had been properly
used. And the sarcasm and low satiri-
cal wit so constantly and regularly
dealt out by George D. Prentice have
shorn his name of half the glory that
it might otherwise have worn.
1t detracts nothing from the charac-
ter of gentleman-official or private
Ito initiate the example ofthe Savior,
"who when he was reviled, reviled not
again. or of Michael, who. ..when
contending even with the devil, burst
not bring against him a railing accusa-
tion.''