Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-11-07
MEMPHIS APPEAL
A PoRTRATT.


The Baltimore Gazette thus photo
graphs the Governor Of Tennessee:
A little book containing extracts from
! the Knoxville Wing of ten years ago
| lies before us, snd il Is curious to note
with what savage vehemence BrownloR
was then pouring out against the North
| the same rage and hate that he is now
directing against the people Of the South.
10 October, 1857, he was rsving feRrfully
against "pious freedom shriekers and
the big buck negro Douglass" II the
latter should venture 70 reply TO him,
" would serve him" he says, as Rusk
Of Arkansas did Greeley in Washington
for his violence. 1 would wear him out
on the pavement with big hickory
stick" BE writes to the New York
Tines an account of q crime recently
committed by negro, and says; Z" For
this the negro was burned alive, ten
or fifteen hundred Of the best citizens
sf the county attending, and aid
ing and abetting. repeat 1t was all
perfectly right" He cites scores of
Scripture texts to demonstrate the law
fulness OF slavery, and reviles the "vag-
abond philanthropists of the North " for
denouncing it. He searches the records
Of crime to prove that the New England
States, including that Of New York, are
so many" nurseries Of all that is wicked,
immoral. demoralizing and dangerous,
social and political, which now threatens
the overthrow of virtue and religion
in the Union" He says "ths course
Of the Northern people," if continued
I" FIVE years" longer, must result in
war, which would end in the destruction
of the Republic. He terms the "villain-
Gus abolitionists" "slave stealing peO-
ple." "pious thieves, and God
forsaken hypOcrites." He tells the
Northern people that there is not run
away slave north of Mason and DixOn's
line "Who is not as honorable and
worthy Of confidence as any Black Re-
publican editor, politician or preacher in
all your ungodly dominiOns.n He eX-
presses a strong wish to meet Theodore
Parker "on Northern soil and to spit
upon him before public audience" and
is especially disgusted with that man"
Henry Wilson. Such was BrOwnlow,
editor and parson, in 1857. Six years
sfterward, he said Of the Southern peO
pie: "Let them be punished-let them
be impOverished-let them be slain, and
after slain, let them be damned" He is
parson still, he says, but he is also Cover
nor and Senator elect. What he will
next say or do in the new and congenial
sphere into which he is about to be trans
lated, time must show. But it is safe to
predict that even amidst the powerful
rivals by whom he will find himself sur
rounded he will achieve pre-eminent
reputation as q master Of brutal billings
gate.
The New York World is not much
more complimentary. 1t says:
The value Of the negro element in our
politics may be estimated by the kind Of
men the negroes honor with their conf
deRee. In proportion as voters are ignO-
rant and debased they will surrender
passively TO the guidance OF
leaders; and the lOwness of their level
may be measured by the vileness Of the
men they consent to be led by. The
Calibsn offered to worship
the drunken Stephano as a god, and
asked to lick his shoes. Aud the Nir- |
yiuia negroes, many Of whom forgot at |
The uoIls the names by which they were |
registered, regard Hunnicutt as their |
statesmen.
Tennessee is the first State in which |
he experiment of controlling negro |
has been tried, and as the |
first fruits OF the new system, Tennessee |
las elected the NEST notorious lampOOneT 4
and blackguard in the country Governor,
and now United States Senator. The /
aging sea of French sans cuLottisHl
never heard Of anything more contempt
bic; the mob OF Paris in the craziest
isys Of the Revolution was not more /
INIT depository OF political power than
ire the Southern negroes. A crop OF /
and HunnicOtts is no better
han a crop Of RObespierres; with Robes
,ierre's power they would rival his afro
titles.
A whole Senate OF these sons of vitriol
would be a PsndemOnium ia ali save the
Intellectual ability which the dsv Is
houRh blasted by Gods ayenging thun-
Ter, did not lose by their fall
RoBEsPIERRE was at least decorous
md incorruptible; and those who are
smiliar with his speeches know that he
vas not wanting in intellectual power. To
compare him to HUNNICUTF is to do in
ury to his memory. He was an AdvO-
ate, and spoke logically and fOrcioly,
nd sometimes with thin sort of elO-
luence. He never descended to such /
lepths as HUNNICUTT and HAwxHURsT
iave dived into. In intellect he resem-
,led that dull and malignant Judge,
his superior, indeed,
md not more unserupulous. He was
apable Of ruling Frenchmen. HUNNI-
,UTT could never have won any sufrages
except those of negroes.
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