The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1867-09-11
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Brownlow---"The Embodiment Of
Total Depravity."

Our readers will remember the severe
criticism of PRENTICE upon this hoary old
sinner. The following article is from the
Memphis Avalanehe, written just previous
to the late elections in Tennessee, and
scarcely falls short in scathing rebukc
and bitter invective:
"Elect Brownlow and you will continue
in power politician without principle, n
preacher without righteousness, q pro-
fessed Christian without one solitary
grace, Governor without authority, ad-
ministrative ability, or patriotism. A
professed child Of God, he is son of
Belial; an enemy of all Righteousness, an
imp of darkness and foe to the human
race His lips are rcdolent with guile, a
deadly, putrescent odor eXhales from his
tongue which is set on fire of hell. Pro-
Tossing piety, he is notorious for his BIAS
phomy. He pollutcs the paper on which
he writes, infuscs q deadly poison in his
pen and ink, and even sets the telegraph
on fro with the deadly hate that flares in
his rotten heart-burns and blazes in his
miscreant bosom. lie never had one
lofty feeling, one noble conception, one
generous emotion. An effort to produce
one generous thought. one high aspiration,
would break asunder the fbres of his cor
rupt heart. Low, sensual and devilish,
he is walking photograph of the devil.
His Infamous bosom is the abiding place
of such restless, fiery and corroding pas
sions that if his bones were not iron and
his flesh brass, they would ignite and
burn by spontaneous combustion. He is
more Of cynic than Diogencs, more of a
tyrant than Caligula, more of fend than
Nero, and more Of q beast than Butler,
with volcanic fires ever burning with
quenchless fury in his polluted bones he is
a moving type of hell. Compared to him,
Lucifer is q saint, and Apolyon is para
gon of mercy. Devils could learn lessons
of profanity from him the most ambi-
tious would despair of cqualirg lis audaci-
ty in blaspheming the name ofHlm, before
whom even devils fear and tremble. lie
never opens his mouth but corruption,
more foctid than rises from carcasses OF
the dead, polutcs the moral atmosphere.
He is body of moral DEATH filling the
chair of State, and the Capitol of Tennes-
sec with odors from which even buzzards
would turn with dismay. lie is the en-
bodiment of total depravity, and his name
is tho synonym of all that is base. and
vile,. and degraded, and low. His very
utterance is enough to infcst the atmos-
pherc with the most deadly miasma. In
after years the child will shuddcr when
he reads q name so allied to infamy, so
linked with corruption, and so far sunk
in darkness that no ray of light can ever
reach it. His life of infamy will soon
close. The hand writing is OH the wall.
His lived, naked spirit will soon pass to
its companionship with beings moro de-
GRADED than the f,blcd harpies. A crawl
ing reptile, that has polluted all that he
has touched on earth, shall soon cease to
bcfoul with his filthy slime the high OF
the low. places of society. Worse than
Judas Iscariot, he will soon seek and find
doom more dismal than awaited the
wretch who betrayed his Saviour Let
him 90 and receive the doom which JUS
ticc cfaims, and which u righteous God is
sure to adjudgo. There we leave him,
for the most malignant would shrink back
appalled, at tho fate of one. who, having
stole the livery of heaven to serve the
devil in, now meets doom in compari-
son with which Satan's is a paradise; now
passes to cline so intensely hot and suf-
locating that the place whcro Dives
dwclls seems the land of frost and snow.
So foul have been his words here that
they have already testcrcd and purified
his almost brazen throat; and so terrible
and dcsparng shall be his wall there, that
tho cries of the lost shall seem in COM
parison as the voices Of mirth."
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