The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1866-09-08


Brownlew in the columns Of the Louis
: vile Journal. The following is the last
verbal vollcy we have heard from him
Governor Brownlow, the old man mis-
erable, is getting feebler and feebler It'll
used to be thought, at least by.sDme, that
} with oil his internal fcndishness, he had
some coarse vigor Of expression, though
no vigor at all Of thought. But he has
got to be the merest imbccile even in Ian
guage. He has lied and sworn and
raved himself into idiocy.
:. The foolish old imp or impish old fool
attaeks us again in his Knoxville Whig of
last week. 1t is all a mere reproduction,
Fepetition, in even a poorer and weaker
form, Of his slandcr of the week before.
Not an additional charge or circumstance
is put forth We replied last Monday to-
all his charges, and there is no need of
our replying to them again. He knew
, and he knows that they are all infamous
lies. lie saw our refutation Of them, but
lignorea all rcfutations.
This accurscd ola migcrcHut says that
We, the senior editor Of the Journal, were
the chief actor in Mr. Isham Henderson's
transactions with the Government. Mr.
Hcnderson's transactions we are sure,
were perfectly upright, but be that as il
may, We had and have nothing to do with
them. Mr.. II. had no transactions inside
our Office; and with those outside, we had
no more to do than the man in the moon.
-. Mr. II. has never had any transactions in
our Office. lie has not desired to have.
: lie has had enterprises on his own perso-
. nal account as he had right to have
: Since Br0wnlow asserts, that in Mr.. Hen
dcrson's mule transactions. we were the
''chiet power behind the throne" let the
;. old miscreant say what atom Of evidence
he has Of his assertion. If he has any
: Why has nobody else any? If he has any
= the damnablc old villain-why doesn't
= he lay it before the proper authorities,
that We may be properly dealt with ?
+ Who, besides him charges Us with any
: sort of completely with what Mr.. Hcnder-
IS son may have done And he the Gov
ernor Of State
The old villain repeats Lis charge, that
= during the war, We had extensive con-
e tracts to furnish the Government with
3 branded the charge as-what it is-an
e unmitigated lic If We had contracted to
}, furnish guns and pistols to the Govern
II ment, it would certainly have been no
: dishonor TO us. But We didn't. We
r. never asked for any such contract. We
y never wanted one. In selling to indiyid-
- uals, under license from the city of
II Louisville, the few guns and pistols We
d did sell, we were as independent Of the
p Federal Government as Of the Cham Of
Is Tartary. We repeat that the Government
s. in all the war, laid on us no obligation,
n but, on the contrary, very gross disob-
D. legation. We do not expect to feel call
cd on to deny the miserable libel again.
ae Brownlow Is the poorest of humbugs
at lie resorts to all kinds Of mean and low.
D. lived tricks to give himself consequence
"a Sometime ago he put report into circu
Iation that an attempt had been made, o.
10 was TO be made to assassinate him. Blu
Il no assassin has been found or traced
h None is named. Nobody believes tha
any such attempt as he speaks of was ey
he er contemplated. The miserable old crea
d ture seems anxious TO rival the fame o
g Payne, who, several years ago, pretended
to be fired at day and night, and acquired
he the title of the great shot at" He dc
r sires to have it thought that there is
in perpetual and deadly conflict between
as himself on the one side, and tens of thou
= sands of ruffians on the other, armed Will
in cannon, mortars, rifles, blunderbusses, anC
# dungforks. Imposition, fraud, cheat, ar
he tifce, trick, trickery, cozening, swindling
have ever been his vocation. We don
say that he is minister of the devil, fo
l. old cloven-foot has more sense than t,
=. employ old cloven-tongue as his minister
Is The latter has the temper of hyena, tn,
- manners of bear, the decency of skunk
and the morals Of a chicken-hawk.
.. Our readers already know how, as lat
:" as 1861, Brownlow threatened in a pub
- lished letter that the South, unless tn
- North should come to terms, would form
new alliance with France and overrul
- and subjugate the North. They knoy
~ ~ how, after his release from a rebel prisol
~ he denounced the North for contempla
ting opposition to the rebellion. An,
- - they know how long and earnestly Judg
III G. L. Trigg and Mr.. John Williamson
- =. had to expostulate and demonstrate witt
va him to keep him from publishing an al
ticle, in type, in favor of the election of
ct delegate from the Knoxville District t
to the Rebel Congress. And they mus
by know, from these facts, that he is as dam
re nable an old traitor as ever swung be
ng tween earth and sky, twirling and squeak
&c ing in hcswinds of heaven. There ism
* wretch in all the Southern Confederac
nng that more deserves hanging than he.
ne Old Brownlow was never in but on
mt place where he deserved to be, and tina
on was in the rebel prison. If he has an
lat "a more lying to do, perhaps he nao sYse-
IN make haste and do it in this world, as b
ib- will get his pens and paper scorched aH
as his ink boiled away in the next. He ha
em a chronic diarrhea of lies. He could n
'ed more breathe an air untitled with his ow
res lies and curses than one without hydro
ct gen or oxygen. If he were off the eartl
ct, It would compare much more faVorabl
led than it does with its sister planets. II
'ne is no writer-simply brawler, bawle
ng he-vixen, a maletermagant, a maseulin
.tt, virago. He is of the class of "commo
ION scolds," who by an old law of Great Bri
ain, were ducked in horse-ponds. He
ers vilIifer, traducer, calumniator
rho men, women and children. No exec
en- lence, no purity, no helplessness of an
IL II . = Il L -