The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-07-16
BroWnlOW and Hill.
o,RsON DENOUNCED AS A FOUL
10 MONSTER.

"a
] For quarter of a century before the
n var. Rev. W. G.. Brownlow was
a y. self.constituted apostle of the pro-
90 i.srv marty. No one of the same
as 'sunt of brains did SO much to fire
s !" vSouthern heart aud influence the
uustheru mind against the Abolition
%as"enent, and thus to bring about the
lp'o.sita6le conflict of arms, as the self
nasn.ointed champion of human bondage.
W MIR. Brownlow challenged the
y, Mr.. Pryne to meet him in Phila-
! e ,s,obia and there discuss the slavery
ssastiou. In that debate, Rev. Mr..
iS,nornlow used the following language:
Vow Mr.. Pryne, may l ask you and
~ fellow-laborers in the CAUSE OF
! Sp pEyIL to pause and lift the veil of
~ ~ f,,ture not quarter of century
w s.ad of you, and use your influence to
' a,s the fanatical hand raised to strike the
,,'s of ruin to your country! Call around
% sa council of your head men and
yusrrriors-Senator Seward, Joshua r..
sadjngs, Chase and Fred Douglass
W. whom you are doing journey-work,
va 90 to that victim in the lunatic asy-
' sun Gerritt Smith, whose tool you have
s ,as, for wears, aud upon whose money
wv have lived and fed your wife and
,sildren--ask them all if you had not
stter change your programme. If the
ssnonse is not satisfactory, call pray
), meeting, and have Wendell Phillips,
sScher, Cheever and all the lOng-faced
Svmerites who insult God aud mock
,:Itigion by calling upon Him for mercy
"nray old John Brown and his confed-
,, ate out of hell, where the whole
Satch of you are going with lightning
need! Ask God to forgive you tor
, 1our Notwithstanding morning,
Gening and noon with your face to-
Yards Harper's Ferry! Ask Him to
wash your filthy garments from the
.tsil Of the blood of your Kansas and
Virginia murders, and importuue Him
antil you get your answer-''go and sin
no more-sin 10 longer against con-
Silence and your country's laws and
constitution" Don't pray for heaven,
hr no power can qualify you to walk
HE New Jerusalem! Don't ask for
mercy, for the winged messenger can
never light on such mean and detesta-
BE creatures. Don't ask to be punish
ID in hell, for that would be inadequate
b your crimes! Ask to be annihilated,
Or banished to the utmost verge of the
astronomical imagination, where the
ghost of a negro may never rise up to
remind whence you came.
Then he predicted that the Aboli-
ionists would ruin the country, called
them murderers, and said they were
asoing to hell with tightening speed"
Stduced by his pro-slavery raut and
fierce denunciations of the Abolition.
its, thousands of his ignorant follow
10 took up arms against the murder
@, expecting their pro slavery cham
pbn to lead them to the ''immjnent
Deadly BREACH" or at least to 1.-The last
Gtch.' But there was danger in such
leadership, and the great champion of
laman bondage joined those lie had
denounced as hell-bound murderers,
| and bounded them on to the slaughter
ldhis kindred, neighbors, and country
sen. who had been stimulated by Ills
haehing into open warfare against the
Aboliiionists. 1t must be admitted
|nwever, in simple justice to the Rev.
|Ar Brownlow's prudence, that he new
Ia came willingly within a hundred
miles of rebel battery, but from a far
land safe distance cheered ON the slay-
|as of his people.
The Rev. Mr.. Brownlow las recent
" published an article in the Knox
vile Chronicle, bringing certain charg-
. against the editor of the Southern
Home. There is not sentence in that
|aticle which is not directly false, or
| rhicl does not convey a falshood by
|nplication. l will only notice a few
|dthese wicked libels. Thus he pru-
|@ntly fails to quote what did say
|isoat General Candy and others, and
pits his own Interpretation upon Ian
lpage never used. He himself was not
denounced for loyalty, but for betray-
Ing the men he had seduced into the
ield and then urging his old enemies
y slaughter them for being guided by
|@ teaching. Again, he falsely ac-
FUSED me of misleading and coercing
men into rebellion. No human being
ian charge mo with teaching either
fo-slavery or secession doctrine prior
10 le6l. On the contrary. there are