The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-05-11
THE RECORD.

We begin the BrownlOw recOrd-an awful
one-with the following. Read it and pass
it aIongl Read it to the eolored people, and
let them know what sort of an apostle Of
freedom the new Moses is:
Rev. A. Pryne:-
SIR: l owe you an apology for not hav-
| ing disturbed your peace and quiet, as you
repOse in the sweet-scented family of Fred
Douglas, editing his dirty abolition paper,
rendered still more filthy, false and infamous
under your editorial management during his
visit to England. l have been engaged in
my attention to home matters to the winding
up Of the career of your old bosom friend,
John Brown, with whom, and by the side of
whom, you ought to have pulled hemp with
| out fOOthOld, or would have paid my re-
spects to you before this time. l have
watched your movements with interest, ex-
pecting to hear of you being called before
the Harper's Ferry Investigating Committee
Of the Senate, and had you been, | should
| have gone to Washington to hear you de-
pose, as you would have done one of two
! things certain-either disclose enough to
hang several of your abolition associates, or
sworn a batch of ies-most probably the
! latter.
will make up for my delay, by the length
and sweetness of this epistle. So let me
ask you to carefully read what l write you,
! that you may see Yourself as others see you
an unmasked, unmitigated, unregenerated
and God-forsaken Abolitionist-who if you
will dare show yourself South, and repeat
! your wholesale abuse Of shareholders, and
| your vile reflections upon the virtue of South
ern ladies-shall be treated to a coat of tar
and COTTON, and rode upon a rail by free ne
! grOes and Northern prostitutes, such as are
! skulking about IN our large towns and cities
| Sir, you are a congregational minister, and
! see from newspaper notices, that you have
| been Decorating the Sabbath by attempting
! TO preach the Gospel of Christ and when
you have performed the damning deed of
harranging a congregation Of KNAvEs AND
FOOLS, for two hours, upon the subject of
! slavery, you turn round and publish with
( hypOcritical cant, that you preached at such
! a church, on such a subject
You profess to be follower Of Christ
! talk much about the pretended piety of the
| South, yet in no wise do you follow in the
footsteps of your Lord, or are you aetuated
! by the spirit Of His religion. His WAS OF
PEACE. YOURS OF THE SWORD. His was for
! bearance, yours assault: UPON UNOF-
! TENDING WOMEN AND CHILDREN,
! EVEN UNTO DEATH"
He purchased no weapons, even to be
| turned upon enemies; while yours is the
religion of the B0lgie knife, the rife the
reUoIUer and the Connecticut Pike. This
was mercy, yours IS murder. You propose
! to turn the brutal negro upon unsUspecting
white men and the defenseless white women,
and see them gloat on murder and rapine
| He would gather little children to His bosom,
saying - of such is the kingdom Heaven"
| while you propose to have them indiscrimi-
nately butchered for the alleged Offense of
! their parents He consOled the single sis
ters of a departed Christian, while you pro-
! posed to cOnsign innocent white girls Of your
oWN race, to the brutal embrace of a set of
infuriated Africans. He taught his follow
ers to render to Caesar the things that are
| Caesars while you boast of stealing slaves,
recognized by the Bible and the American
| Constitution as property. l, therefore can
not address you as a Minister of Christian
religion or a follower of the meek and lowly
| Lamb of God; but as heartless, unfeeling,
| unprincipled EI1GUe too wise and well educa-
/ ted to act-withOUt villianOus purpose, too
! little religion to be fanatic, but possessing
! the power to make fools, knaves and fanatics
| of others. In the house of God, on Sunday,
! you boast of having raised money to excite
! insurrectlOn In Kansas, and when the dam
ming deed was done, you exclaimed all hon
Ors to glorious old John Brown and mis- boys"
You send men to apply the torch to your
| neighbOr's dwelling, and excite black men
! to murder white men, approving Of the Har-
per's Ferry foray, and say you only wish to
! liberate the slaves. Such infamous conduct
no reason can justify; no honest heather
/ can approve. Jesus Christ lived in Pro
vince of the Roman Empire, from his in
fancy until death, l may say, and never plot
/ ted treason against the government under
! which he lived, but said" servants be ODE
dient to your masters" and that too, when
there were SIXTY-THREE MILLION of
slaves in the Empire, against FIVE MIL
| LION in America
Ii, hypOcritical sir, your philanthropy
must be exercised, why not begin with the
moral suasiOn" Of New England saints,
! your Bowie knives, Sharp's rifles and Con-
necticut pixies and bloodshed in Africa, the
| parent country from which your Puritanical
| saints stole the first slaves that were intro
/ duced into the Southern market? There
! the field is wide and the harvest ripe. But,
you contemplate hireling Of wealthy scoun-
/ drels, turn in at home and look upon your
seIf-cleanse first the iniquitOus house Of
your great Northern cities before you begin
the work of reform in Kansas and Virginia,
and when your work is finished at home, if
you are not partial to color, l invite your
philanthropic efforts to benighted Asia where
there are FOUR HUNDRED MILLIONS of
/ human beings more degraded than the
slaves Of the Southern Statesl Why excite
men, you vile incendiary, to fanatical
/ deeds which must destroy both their cOun-
! try and themselves Why urge or goad the
| Southern States to disunion when destruc-
ton will fall alike on both, North and South ?
If this Union is dissolved-whieh, may God
in his mercy, preventive must, of necessity,
be cngulphed in the whirlpool Of European
| wars, and 20 down forever as a Republic
But sir, the South can, In two months, enter
into alliance with either England or France,
commercial and political, offensive and de-
fensiVe, and, in either case, it will be utter
ruin to the Northern States of this Confed-
eracy. England and France want our rice,
tobacco and cotton, but they don't want the
I n1aHUf Ufactures Of New England. An alliance
between England and these Southern States
viii break the existing tariff system discrim-
mating in favor of New England manufac-
lures, as a rope Of sand, and scatter ut once
all your hopes to the winds, and coming in
collision with your ancient competitor, and
her low wages, without that protection which
has built up all your cities and towns, you
must most destroy. Whenever such an al