The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-11-04
BRowNLow.
George ID. Prentice's Philippe
against thePolitical Repro
bate in 1868.


pearing in S65:
BrownloW was for having all these
horrors perpetrated if the fanatics
of the North should keep up their
warfare upon slavery, that is, if they
should do exactly what he himself
afterwards, and very soon afterwards
did-and before slavery was abolish
ed by the war. He was for a battle
of sections if the Northern fanatics
should continue their clamor; he was
for an alliance offensive and defen-
sive, In that event, between the
Southern States and France or Eng
land; he was for having France
place 100000 men at Chesapeake;
he was for taking possession of the
Mississippi valley from the Balize
to the Falls of st. Anthony, whip
ping the Northwestern States into
MS Southern Confederacy, and then
turning upon New England and
| causing the hurricane of civil war to
rage from Mason and Dixon's line
to the cod fisheries of the North,
and burning the Northern cities and
towns with the midnight torch. And
those werenot his views and resolves
as a hot headed boy, or a person in
the prime of life; they were the
malignant declarations of a white
haired, graybearded old man, ups
wards of fifty, if not full sixty years
of age. They were the utterances
Of a preacher, of a pretended dispen-
] Nrsr,o1 Of Ih i-N Of
calling himself man of Sod No
traitors in all the South have ever
exhibited more of the hellish spirit
of treason than he. He published
the informal language that we have
cited when perhaps no other man
i in all the world would have defiled
his mouth or paper with it to save
his neck from the hangman's halter.
He showed himself a walking vol
cano with snow upon his peak. and
all hell in his bosom.
It is most extraordinary and most
lisgraceful that any portion of the
people of Tennessee, knowing this
man as they did, voted to make him
Governor of that State. Their only
excuse must be, that they were un-
der military law, and so not really
agents in his election. No other
State was ever afflicted and disgraced
and cursed with such an unmitiga-
ted and unmitigable, such an unre-
deemed and irredeemable black
| guard as her Chief Magistrate. He
is a parody. a caricature, broad
burlesque on all possible Governors.
He is a monstrosity. He is a thing
as much out of nature as Barnum's S
wooIy horse or his giants and
dwarfs or his colt with two heads
and eight legs-four Of the legs
pointing toward the zenith. His
blood is hell broth, which Satan will
one day sup with a long spoon
| They say there is fire in him, but il
is hell-fre, every particle of it
/ Though he is but a single swine
there are as many devils in him as
there were in the whole herd thai
"ran violently down a steep place
into the sea-" His heart is nothing
but Kissing knot of vipers, rattle
= snakes, cobra, and cotton-mouths
He never argued a question in his
life, approaching no subject but with
, fierce, bitter, coarse, low and vulgar
, obiurgations. His tongue should b'
bored through and through with his
own steel-pen, heated red-hot.
, This man, as we have said, call:
him self a clergyman. He holds
forth in pulpits. He breaches, prays
and exhorts draws down his face
drops the corners of his mouth, anc
undertakes to look sanctimonious
And yet he seems always trying il
his pulpit discourses to see unde
how thin a disguise he can venturl
: to curse and swear and blaspheme
He can't offer up a prayer in th'
house of God without telling tn,
Lord what an Internal scoundrel
damned thief, or cursed vagabond
this, that, or the other neighbor is
From his youth up to his old age
he has had no personal controver
sizes without attacking the wives
fathers, mothers, grand-fathers
grand mothers, brothers, sisters
/ children, uncles, aunts, and neph
| ews of his opponents. He has sough
to strew his whole path of life Will
the dark wrecks of wantonly RUNE,
regulations. He has never had al
hours happiness except in the un
happiness of others. He has neve
said to Evil, ''be thou my good -
: He has always carefully jotted dow
all that he heard unfavorabie to gen
: tlemen while protesting to be thei
friend, so as to be ready for the da,
4 Of alienation. He howls venom
0 talks venom, breaths venom, belche
y venom, coughs venom, sneezes We
nom, spits venom, drools venom
Il sweats venom stinks it, d discharge
:. venom from his nose. Not the fJil
" iginous exhalation from the bottom
u less pit, not the fire and -brimston
e fumes from the sooty throat of tn
e Devil, were ever more blighting an
u blasting than his accursed serpen
:. breath. He never had a friend o
earth, outside of his own family
No doubt there are those who fea
s. him for his fiendish ferocity, but d
? human being not of his own house
- nOAQ ever lDNCQ VI lN5 yCIecU Atti--
d, He will yet have his reward; Sow
= ing in wrath, he will reap IN agon1
h, Fury and hate may stifie in his heai
8, the feeling of remorse for a time, bI
: Nemesis, with her hoFrid whip, wi
h vet scourge him around the who
g orb Of being. All the hairs upo
a. his head viii seem to him to /
a. snakes like the Kissing and forke,
ed tongued locks of the Eumenides.-
es When hs shall retire, as he soc
m5sst, from the noisy and tumu
tuous strifes that have ever engage
,e and still engage all his thoughts,
g will not have q solitary pleasant I
u serene memory ofthe past. On u
re contrary, a stors Of bitter and di
u consolate and torturing recoIle
ID tions will corFode and eat up his vei
!, heart, until, cut of from ali hum.
sympathies, exiled from the pale
10 all the beautiful genialities of iii
ar having no friends or companies
.ir around him to sOothe him in