The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-18
Brownlow and General HilI.


From Gen. d. q. HilPs paper.
For quarter of century before the
late civil war, Rev. w. G.. Brownlow
was the self-constituted apostle of the
pro-slavery party. No one of the same
amount of brains did so much to fire the
Southern mind against the Abolition
movement, and thus to bring about the
Inevitable conflict of arms as the self
appointed champion of human bondage.
Rev. Mr.. Brownlow challenged Rev.
Mr.. Pryne To meet him in Philadelphia
and there discuss.the slavery question.
In that debate Mr., Brownlow used the
following language snow, Mr.. Pryne,
may ask you and your fellow-laborers
in the cause of the devil to pause and
and lift the veil of the future, not a
quarter of century ahead of you. and
use your influence to stay the fanatical
hand raised to strike the blow of ruin to
your country! Call around you coun-
Gil of your head men and warriors-Sen-
ator Seward, Joshua r. Giddings, Chase
and Fred. Douglas-for whom you are
doing journey-wOfk, and go to that vic
tim in the 1unatic asylum, Garritt Smith,
whose tool you have been for years, and
upon whose money you have lived and
fed your wife and children-ask them
all if you had not better change your
programme If the response is not sat
Wendell Phillips, Beecher, Cheever and
all of the long-faced hypocrites who in
suit God and mock religion by calling
on Him for mercy-pray old John Brown
and his contederates out of hell, where
the whole batch of you are going with
lightning speed! Ask God to forgive
you for your wickedness-prayin
morning, evening and noon, with your
faces towards Harper's Ferry! Ask Him
to wash your filthy garments from the
stain of the blood of your Kansas and
Virginia murders, and importune Him
until you get your answer-go and sin
no more-sin no longer against consci-
ence and your country's laws and con-
stitution. Don't pray for heaven, for no
power can qualify you to walk the New
jerusalem! Don't ask for mercy, for
the winged messenger can never light
on such mean and deteStable creatures.
Don't ask to be punished in hell, for that
would be inadequate to your crimes.
Ask to be annihilated, or banished to
the utmost verge of the astronomical
imagination. where the ghost of a me-
gro may never rise up to remind you
whence you camel"
Then he predicted that the Abolition
lists would ruin the country, SScalled them
murderers, and said they were "going
to hell with lightning speed" Seduced
by his pro-slavery rant and fierce de-
nunciations of the Abolitionists, thous-
ands of his ignorant followers took up
arms aginst 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, hounded them on to the
slaughter of his kindred, neighbors and
cOuntrymen, who had been stimulated
by his teaching into open warfare against
the Abolitionists. It must be admitted,
however, in simple justice to Rev. Mr..
Brownlow's prudence, that he never
willingly came within a hundred miles
of rebel battery, but from a far and
safe distance cheered on the slayers OF
his own people.
Mr.. BrowDlow has recently published
an article in the Knoxville Chronicle,
bringing certain charges agaipat the ed
itoF of tho SGl4tHeY4s Home. There Is not
sentence in that article that is not di-
rectly false, or which does not convey a
talsehood by implication. l will only
notice a few of the wicked libels. Thus
say about General Candy and others,
and puts his own Interpretation on lam
guage never used. He himself was not
denounced for loyalty, but for hetray-
ing the men he had saduced into the
field and then urging his old enemies to
slaughter them for being guided by his
teaching. Again, he falsely accused me
of misleading and coercing men into
rebellion. No human being can charge
me with teaching either pro-slayery or
secession doctrines prior to 1861. On the
contrary there are living witnesses to
prove that warned the hot>bIoods that
they were rushing into long and dis
astrous war. When my cOuntrymen did
take up arms, however, l cast in my lot
with them, and have never once regret
ted that did 50. It was Mr.. Brown
low himself that misled and coerced
men into rebellion. ! will show press
emily that he was the first man who ev-
er used the term Southern Confedera-
Cyl and to advise its establishment. A
third gross falsehoOd is, that twenty-six
loyal men were hung by my order one
morning before breakfast. This is made
out of whole cloth. It was never my lot
to order either thSshooting or hanging
of deSerters or loyal men. At no time
during the war would have willingly
hanged more than one deserter. That
deserter would haye cheerfully hang
ed to "sour apple tree" not because OF
his loyalty to the Union, but because he
urged the "hell-bound party" Ito use
his own elegant language to slaughter
men he had inveigled into rebellion.
That deserter, however, kept himself
safe behind the battlements at Washing
ton, and thanked God devoutly for every
fresh slaughter of his late deluded fol-
lowers.
Mr.. Brownlow claims that the devil
was the author of secession and the
Southern Confederacy. / rather think
that it was the DEVILS vieegerent on
earth, for Mr.. Brownlow himself was
the first human being on earth to recon-
mend a Southern Contederacy. In his
zeal for slavery he wrote FIVE filthy let
ters OF abuse to Rev. Mr.. Pryne. In the
fifth OF these letters he said:
81, sir, would favor an alliance with
France as means of more effectually
Furnishing and starving out the people
at the North. This far-seeing monarch
of the French would unite with us on
our ogn terms, as it would afford him
an opportunity TO crush the commerce
and manufacture of Old England, and |
make her feel that she is dependent ups |
on her ancient enemy, as we'll as atone |
for her villainous treatment of his illus |
trious Uncle, Napoleon Bonaparte. Dis |
solve the Union, you infamous villains, |
and we shall pake this proposition to |
a most sagacious monarch,
and he would quarter at New Orleans
10000 Frenchmen and at Chesapeake /
200, 900 more; we would then command
the Mississippi Valley; whip the North
sestern StStes into cur Southern Confed-
sracy, and we would then turn upon the
New England States and cause the hur.
Licane Of civil war to rage and sweep