Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-08-28
Old BrownIow--" The Embodiment of
Total Depravity.''


The Memphis 4c0lanche the day previous
to the late elections in Tennessee, came out
in strong appeal in support of Hon. MIR.
Emerson, the white mans candidate for Gov.
ernor, and closed his article in the following
bitter denunciaiions of the vile and blasphc-
nous old Brownlow, tine Radical aspirant for
the Chair of State. 1t is scathing rebuke
10 the notorious old sinEer, and must have
caused him to vince and feel uncomfortable
under its whitening satire:
"Elect Brownlow and you will continue in
power a politician without principle, a
preacher without righteousness, . professed
Christian without one solitary grace, Gov
ernor without authority, administrative ablli-
~, or patriotism. A professed child of God,
ne is a son of Belal an enemy of all righte
BUSINESS, an imp of darkness aud foe to the
human race. His lips are redolent with guile,
deadly, putrescent odor exbales from his
tongue, which is set on FIRE Of hell. Profes
sing piety, he is notorious for his. blasphemy.
lie pollutes the paper on which he writes, in.
fuses deadly poison in his pen and ink: and
even sets the telegraph ON FIRE with the dead
iy hate that flares in his rotten heart-burns
aud blazes in his miscreant bosom. He never
lad one lofty feeling, one noble conception,
one generous emotion. An effort to produce
oae generous thought, one high aspiration,
would break asuuder the fbres Of his corrupt
ueart. Low, sansual and devilisb, he is a
walking photograph Of the devil. His lnta-
nous busom is the abiding place of such rest
esS, fiery and corroding passions that if his
bore, were not iron and his flesh brass, they
would ignite aud burn by spontaneous COM
bustion. He is more Of cynic than Dioge
ues, mere OF tyrant than Calignla, more of
Butler, vito volcanic fires ever burning with
quenchlcs, fury in lis polluted bones he is Il
moving type OF hell. Compared to him, Lu-
c!er is saint, and Apo!yon is paragon Of
mercy. Devils could learn lessons of pro-
lanity from him the most ambitious would
despair Of equaling his audacity in blaspheu-
Ing the name Of Him, before whom even dcv.
lis fear ard lrembe. He never opens his
mouth.,but corruption, more foctidl'han rises
rom carcaSses oi the dead polutes the moral
atmosphere. He is a body of moral death,
filing the chair OF State, aud the Capitol OF
Tennessee with odorS from which even buz-
yards would turn with dismay. He is the em
boGiment of total depravity, and bis name is
the SYNONYM Of all that is base, and vile, and
degraded, and low. His very utterance Is
enough to infest the atmosphere with the
most deadly miasma. In after years the child
will shudder when he reads name so allied
to nfamy, 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 writingis on the wall. His
lived, naked spirit will soon pass to its COM
pauionship with beings more degraded than
the tabled harpies. A crawling reptile, that
has polluted all that be has touched on earth,
shall soon cease to befcul with his filthy
slime the high or 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 justice
claims, and which righteous God is sure to
adiudce. There we leave him, for the most
malignant would shrink back appalled, at the
fate Of one, who, having stole the livery OF
heaven TO serve tie devil in, now mcels a
doom in comparison with which Satan's is a
paradise; nov passes to cline so intensely
hot and sufocating tha. the place where
Dives dwells seems the land Of irost andsnow.
So foul have been his words here that they
have already festered and purified his almost
b1azcn throat; and 81 terrible and despairing
shall be his wall there, that tie cries of the
lest shall seem in comparison as the voices OF
mirlh.''