The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-07-17
Gen. D. H. Hill Excoriatcs Parson Brownlow.


In reply to recent abusive letter from
Brownlow, which has been widely circulated,
Gen. D. 81. Hill clinches the nail in the an
nexed characteristic article:
For quarter of century before the civil
war, Rev. W. G. Brownlow was the self-con-
stituted apostle Of the pro-slavery party. No
one of the same amount of brains did so much
to fire the Southern heart and influence the
Southern mind against the Abolition move
ment, andthus to bring about the inevitable
conflict of arms, as the self-appointed champi-
on of human tondage Rev. Mr.. Brownlow.
challenged the Rev. Mr.. Pryne to meet him in
Philadelphia and there discuss the slavery
question! In that debate, Rev.. Mr.. Brownlow
used the following language:
. "Now, Mr.. Pryne, may I ask you and your
'fellow.laborers in the cause of the devil, to
pause and lift the veil of the future not quar-
ter of acentury, ahead of you, and use your
influence to stay the fanatical hand raised to
strike the blow ef ruin to your country! Call
around you council of your head men and
warriors r@Senater Seward, Joshua r. Giddings,
Chase and Fred. Douglass-for whom you are
doing journey work, and go to that victim in
the lunatic asylum, .Gerritt Smith; whose tool
you have been for years, and upon whose
moneyyou have lived and fed your wife and
children.ask them all iPyou had not better
change your programme. If the response Is
not satisfactory, call prayer-meeting, and
have Wendell Phillips, Beecher, Cheever and
all the long-faced hypocrites who insult God
and mock religion by calling upon Him for
mercy-pray old John Brown and his confede
ratesout of hell, where the whole batch ofyou
are going with lightning ,speedl Ask God to
forgive you for your wickedness-praying
morning evening, and noon with your face to-
wards Harper's Ferry ! Ask Him to wash
your filthy garments from the stains of the
blood of your Kansas and Virginia murders,
and importune Him until you getyour answer
90 and sin no more-sin no longer against con-
science and your country's laws and Constitu-
ton Don't pray for heaven, for no power can
qqalify you to walk the New Jerusalem Don't
ash for mercy, fer the winged messenger can
meier light on such mean and detestable crea-
tues Don't ask to be punished in hell, for
AK to be annihilated, or banished to the ut
most verge of the astronomical imagination,
where the ghost of negro may never rise up
toremind you whence you came W
Then he predicted that the Abolitionists
would ruin the. country, called them murder
e1, and said they were .going to hell with
liShtning speed" Seduced by his pro-slavery
rSnt and. fierce denunciations of the Aboli-
tDnists, thousands of his ignorant followers
took up arms against the murderers, expecting
their pro-slavery champion to lead them to the
'imminent deadly breach" or at least to; "the
last ditch" But there was danger in such
leadership, and the great champion of human
bondage Joined those he had denounced as
hell-bound murderers, and bounded them on
to the slaughter Of his kindred, neighbors and
countrymen, who had been stimulated by his
teaching into open warfare against the Aboli-
tionists. 1t. must be admitted, however, in
simple justice to the Rev. MIR. Brownlow's pru-
dence, that he ne,Ter came willingly within a
hundred miles of rebel battery, but from q
far and safe distance cheered on the slayers of
his own people.
The Rev. Mr.. Brownlow has recently pub
lshed an article in the Knoxville Chronicle,
bringing certain charges against the editor OF
the Southern Home. There is not sentence in
that article which is not directly FALSE or which
does not convey falsehood by implication.
Twill only notice few, of these wicked libels.
Thus he prudenty fails to quote what did
say about Gen. Csnby and others, and puts his
own interpretation upon language never used.
He himself was nDt denounced for loyalty, but
for betraying the men he had seduced into the
field and then urging his old enemies to slaugh-
Ter them for being guided by his teachings.
Again, he falsely accused me of misleading
md coercing men into rebellion. No human
Icing, can charge me with teaching either pro-
slavery or secession doctrines prior to 1861.
On the contrary, there are living witnesses to
ptove that warned the hot-bloC1s that they
we're rushing into long and disastrous war.
When my c0untrymen did take up arms, how
ever, I cast in MY lot with them, and have
nsver once regretted that did so. It was the
Rsy. Mr.. Brownlew himself that misled and
coerced men into rebellion. will show pre-
seItly that he. Was The first man ever to use the
wqds Southern I!onfederacy," and to advise
itsestablishment.I A third gross falsehood is,
that twenty-six lpyal men were hung by my
orders one morning before breakfast. This is
made out of whole cloth. ItEas never my
lotto order either the shooting or hanging of
desrters or loyal rpen. At no time during The
wa. would / have willingly hanged more than
one deserter. TIIpt deserter would have
cheerfully hanged tna "sour apple tree," not
because of his loyalty to, the Union, but be-
cause he urged the fhell bound party' Ito use
his own elegant lsnguage) to slaughter the
men he had inyeigled into rebellion. That de-
serter, however, kept himself safe behind, the
battlements at Washington, and thanked God
dev0utfy 10r every 4esn SlauSnter OF nlS late
deluded followers.
Rev Mr.. BrownloN slaims that the devil was
the author of secessio4 and the Southern Con-
federacy. -Irathei think that it was the DEVILS
viceregent on earth, fSrMr. Brownlow himself
was the first human being to recommend a
Southern ConfedeIacy. In his zeal for slavery
he wrote five filthy letters of abuse to Rev. Mr..
Pryne. In the fifth fIAese letters he said:
"I. sir, would favor an alliance with France
as a means of more eHectual Furnishing and
starving out the Abol|ionists of the North.
This far-seeing monarchy Of the French would
unite with us on our oEn terms, as it would
afford him an opportunity to crush the com,
make her feel that she is dependent upon her
ancient enemy, as we'll az atone for villainous
treatment of his illustripus uncle, Napoleon
Bona, ..rte Dissolve the Union, you infamous
villains, and we shall maxi this proposition at
once to Louis Napoleon, almost sagacious mon
orob ond ba would ouarter ot New Orleans