Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1867-09-04
An Editorial Martyr.

We are proud to learn that our profession has at
last produced confessor who is ready tedie for his
principles. We are equally sorry that he lives so
far away from us that we cannot grasp his honest
hand before he thrusts it $50 to speak into the
suming flames. Nashville is his abiding place
the happy town in which he prints and processes
BE announces that hereafter, " come veal or wo"
he evil not buy his boots of Radical shoemaker"
and we see him wandering with naked and blstered
soles Moreover, he will not ride in a Radical
hack" whatever species of vehicle that may be-
and therefore all bottles and shoeess be must do
HE Wondering on foot Thirdly he will mot buy
a cents worth Of goods of Radical merchant
He will, therefore, 60 naked, and with that va
CUM in his abdomen which. mature very properly
abhors He viii not employ Radical teacher"
and so his children must suffer with their imprscti-
cable sire. He viii not "join Radical Church"
and so he is quite ready to 60, the reader knows
where, rather tina. be prayed into Paradise by
parson whose political orthodoxy is not the doxy
of this devoted editor. We say this because We be-
lisye that the day not distant when even in Ten
nesses, ali who have anything to sell, anything to
teach OF anything worth preaching will be imprse-
ticably Radical and so, by his own resolution,
this incorporating editor may be cutting himself
of frem solid necessaries, from fluid consultations,
from all cloth ard from all leather Whether, IN
der such circumstances he would not be justified in
so Ear modifying his vow as to buy bit of hemp of
Radical ropemaker, and run the risk of being
waited upon at last By & Radical coffE-maker, we
leave the easusts to determine We hope however,
that the good man viii not be permitted to 60 SO
far If discovered in an alarming state Of mani
tion we would suggest to the benevolent people of
Nashville the duty Of giving him good dose Of
Radical beef-iea, injected by aid Of Radical stom
sch-pnmp, worked BE- the hands sven of Radical
doctor. Lest he leave mourning world too soon,
BIZ the process Of the strag lei all citizens 20 with
sharp knives in their pockets, always prepared 70
cut him down. Let druggists deny him arsenic and
barkeepers Bourbon Let life so beautiful and
so valuable be lackeyed by s thousand lyeried an
gels
In making these suggestions, we think that we
give the best possible proof Of the reverence with
which we regard every individual human existence.
To be sure private opinion IS that the verdi in
general and Tennessee IA particular could mSzage
TO struggle on in spite Of the demise Of Nash
vile friend The planets would continue in their
courses, and his departure would have no peu,epti-
bic effect upon the winds and the tides the weather
and the crops. Railway trains would continue to
run, and Congress would meet upon the appointed
day. The city Of Nashville would retain its NUM-
cipal existence, with the advantage of harboring
one mischief-maker the less. Stsll, when we think
Of the poor editor dead with nobody to bury him,
with nobody to pray over him, and with nobody 10
shed for him single tear, We are wiling TO have
him live under suitable restraints II would be bet
ser, perhaps, to take away his type and to cut on
his ink, pens snd paper; but even upon this point
We should not be memorable. He might continue
TO print IT, with his peculiar views Of trade he could