The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-04-23
Prentice on Brownlow.

From the Daily NelDs
Brownlow, the eJdnt terrible of Tennessee
politics; the bad old man" who deals in diabol-
cal expletives and consgns his opponents to
place not particularly cOol the modern Draco
who writes his laws in the blood of hunted
down, prosecuted Rebels" the archetype of a
Southern "Union man." and the most notable
defender of ''the flag we love" south of the line
the iconoclast who spurns the idols he whilom
worshipped, and who takes Cuffee under his
wing with parental devotion in his new condi-
hon OF needom-Brownlow, rumpty, roaring
ruthless, rash, ridiculous Brownlow, has met ms
match at last. ...
In the course of his varied and checkered
career the redoubtabe defender of the faith in
tennessee mas mad the misfortune to run afoul
OF the editor or the Louisville Journal We
avow profound ignorance as to the cause that
led the Tennessee parson to pit his mowers
against the Kentucky writer. II is enough to
know know tnat tne olrefui conjunction has occurred,
ana, as consequence, the former has come ont
OF the conflict sborn of every yestipe of the
bravery with which he went into It, and So
pluable, melancholy, and wretched an object of
con ctplnIniseIatloh tnat the laugh upon the lips of
the looker-on is changed into CHASTITY stare of
horror at what remains of this honest man.
Dld we not nave the evidences before us we
could scarcely conceive, at this late day, that
TINS stalWart and blatant champion of the
negro emancipation should ever have threat
ened 10 ''eXtnguish the last abolition foothoid
(meaning New England) on the continent Of
America" And were we not fortified by the
same testimony to the fact we would scout with
derlslon the assertion that he ever announced
10 the plous workers in the vineyard of freedom
that they were infamous villainsp and "w1th
lhe VENGEANCE OF an mtnriated foe we will be upon
you III the North, at the hour of midnight. and
as long as luclter match can be found we will
burn up your substance.r -
Thus Brownlow, IN a letter, written in Nav
iS6O, and addressed. to the Rev, Mr. Prynega
nf tblo tI1"
not has resuTrected in a most unto ward moment
for the faithful, and wherewith in the contro.
yersN he deals the writer a destructive and
dlsheartening blow. We submit that the resIs.
citation of language like the following, oenned
by brownlow only six years ago. is most calami-
tous at This time when all good men of his and
Mr.. b. F. Buffers class are SO diligently seeking
TO atone Tor their errors:-
"Face to face knife TO knife steel 10 steol and
PIKE TO pike we would meet you, and as we wonId
cause you 10 bleed at every pore, we would make
S0 IN the bitter agonies of DEATH that you
sir, II the fanatical, wicked and Internal course
pursued 3y you ana your unpnncpled associates Is
continued the result will be as have said and Won
OF our children viii live 10 see it, Pale-iaced pow
eIty ano alsmay are staring some of your manufac-
turers and operatives in tine face We are senuing
our orders to England and France for goods ana
drlVing your hel-deserving freedom shrIekers into
it no notug ~. OI Union meetings, and making these
aghnst bner wills curse all agtatOTs of the slavery
question and resolve that John Brown and his mnr!
9elOus associates get only justice when hung az
death rather than lie, and we win stain every
swamp IN the South with your and our own blood
and with the yenPeance OF an nfuriated foe we
will be upon you in the North at the hour of mid
night, and as long as a lucler match can be found
we Will burn up your substance"
Having thus, by the introduction of this dam.
nable evidence, prepared the victim for the
sacrifice the editor of the Journal proceeds Ia
oner him up; "He published says the Louis.
vile editor, ''the internal language that we have
clted, when, perhaps, no other man in all the
world would have defled his mouth or paper