The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-05-03
Bitterest Invective on Record.

'GovernorsP arson Brownlow exceeds the
bitterest and most withering production
within our remembrance. It is from the
pen Of George d. Prentice, of the Louis
vile; .J5oatrnal, and was excited by an. arti-
Gle from the reverend scoundrel seeking
to nalign the writer of this, The lost
complete tooiinabawks effort on record. IF
Brownlow's hide is impervious to this at
tack, then will lie pass through the fires
of earth unscathed: @
{, 1t is most extraordinary andsmost dis
graceful that any iportion of the people
Of T Tennessee, knowing this man. as they
did, voted to mako him GoYefiior of that
State. Their only excuse must be, that
they were under military law, and SO not
reilly free agents in his election. No
Other State was ever afflicted and dis
graced and cursed with such an unmiti-
gated and unmitigable, such an unre-
deemed and irredeemable blackguard as
her, Chief Magistrate Heis a,paedy, q
.carricature, broad burlesHtie on al pos
siblc Governors. He is a smdnstrosity
He is a thing as much out of nature as
Barnum's woody horse, or his giants and
.dwarfs, .or-his calf with two heads and
eight legs-feur' Of the legs pointing to-
ward the zenith. His Blood is ell-broth,
which Satan will one day sup with long
spoon. They say there is fire in him, but
it is. ReiT.fre, every particle OF it. Though
he is but single swine, there: are as
many deyils;in him as there were in the
whole herd that ssran violently down y
steep place into the sea-" His heart is
nothing but Kissing KNOB of vipers, rat
tlesnakes, cobria, and cotton-mouths, He
never argued aquestion in his life, ape
preaching no subject, but with fierce,
bitter, coarse, low, and vulgar objurga
,tions. His tongue should be bored through
and through, with his own steel pen,
heated red hot ~ s
This man, as we have said, calls HIM
self a clergyman. He holds forth in pull
pits. He breaches, prays .aan aud exhorts,
draws down his face, drops The eornerso9
his mouth, and undertakeuto look sancti-
moniods And yet he seems, always Try
ing in his pulpit discourses to see under
how thin disguise he can venture TO
curse and swear and blasIheme. he can't
offer up prayer in the house of God
without telling the Lord what an Internal
scoundred, damned thief, or cursed yagga-
bond, this, that, or the other neigbboi. is.
From his youth up to his old age, he has
no personal controversies without attack
ing the wives, fathers, mothers, grand
flthers. rrand-mothers, brothers, sisters,
children, uncle, aunts and nepheWs of his
opponents. He has soughtto strew his
whole path of life with the dark wrecks
of wantonly ruined regulations. He has
never had an hours happiness except II
the unhappiness Of others. lie has.eycr
said to evil "be thou my good" He has
always carefully jotted down silli that Tga
has eyer heard nnfavorable to gentlemen
while protesting to be their friends, SO ~
to be ready for day of alienation. He
howls venom, talks venom, brcathcs
venom, belches venom, coughs venom,
sneezes venom, spits venom, drools Yen;
ON. s&eats venom, stinks venom, and
distils venom from his nose. Not The,
fuliginous exhalations from the bottomless
Dit. not the fire and brimst one fumes from
the sooty throat Of the Devil, were ever
more blighting and blasting than his ac-
cursed serpent breath. He never had d
friend on earth outside of his own family.
No doubt there are those who fear hini
for his fendish ferocity, but no human!
being not of his household ever. loved or
respected him. He will yct.haxe Ills re, q
ward. Sowing in wrath, he will reap id
agony. Fury and hate may stifie: Ill his
heart the feeling of remorse for 9 tiiiie,,
but Nemesis, with her horrible whit, will
vet scourge him around the whole orb ct
being. All the hairs upon his head will
seem to him to be snakes like the Kissing
and forked,tongucd locks of the Ia
menides. When he shall retire, as sbe
soon must, from the noisy and tumulsa-
Gus strifcs that have. ever engaged, and
still engage all his thoughts, he will not
have a solitary pleasant and serene mem
ory Of the past. On the contrary store
of Bitter and desolate and torturing re.
collections will corrode ahd eat UP lis
very heart, until, cut off ffofh all human
sympathies, exilcd from the paths of all
the Beautiful gcrialities of life, hRyihg no
friends or companions around Hin to
soothe him in his moral and physical So
licitude, deserted by mankind. whose ,eh-
emy he has, been, and loathed BY; God,
whose holy temple he has sacri!egioGSly
deaecrated by his horrid moclzeries q. rc-
ligion, fostering from head to foot With
the polluted and poisonous puddle-.%ater
in his veins, standing as an oiiteast and
paria on the lone desert Of despair,
shrinking from the past, agonized by the
present, and not daring to gaze into the
future, beholding in fancy upon the door
of his soul the words, a'Hope comes not
here that comes to all,3 shut out by mur-
lights the patti to the tomb. and writing
under myriad curses and execrations piled