Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-05-01
DEATH or PARsON BRO WILLOW

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DEATH or PARsON BRO WILLOW
A press dispatch from Knoxville
Tennessee, the sudden
death there, yesterday, of ex-senator
w. G.. Brownlow, widely and perhaps
better known as "Parson" Brownlow,
We have not the facts conveniently al
hand, but conclude that deceased must
have been sixty odd years of age. He
was a noted man in Tennessee and the
nation forty years ago. He was a rad
ical in the most comprehensive sense
of that term, and no matter what the
aus he esponsed, his opinions were
always pronounced and without re-
rye There was nothing doubtful or
evasive in the u~tterances of Parson
Brownlow. He had convictions on
every public topic, and he never hest
tated to express them, oftentimes in
language more forcible than elegant.
As the editor and publisher of the
Knoxville Whig, he achieved ma
tional n%otoriety, if not fame.
He was ambitious for political
preference, but owing to his many an
tagonisms his day never came until
the breaking out of the war. Stimuli
taneous with the firing of the first gun
OF the rebellion he raised his voice
for the Union and through all Of the
dark and trying scenes that followed
In Tennessee he remained steadfast to
the cause of national unity. 1t re
quired nerve to be a Union man in
Tennessee in those days, but Brown
low was equal to the emergency and
never faltered in his devotion to the old
flag. His surroundings considered,
he was the most outspoken, not to say
vituperative man, that figured promi
nently during the wal either North or
South, and he succeeded in calling
down upon himself the concentrated
bitterness of all d~isunionists and their
sympathizers. We believe that WI are
In strict keeping with the facts when we
say that no mar over lived in the
United States who was more generally
and cordially despised by SO large a
proportion of his fellow citizens than
was Parson Brownlow in the South
during and Immediately succeeding
the great civil war. This was simply
due to his advanced radical sentiments,
aggressively expressed both in and out
of season, and not On account of any
doubt or whisper of suspicion regard
ing bis personal integrity. His hon.
esty, we believe, stood above reproach.
Tennessee having formally with
drawn from the Union, he figured con-
spicuously in all of the measures look
ing to the restoration of her relations
with the Federal Government. With
this view the few loyal men of that
State REBELS were not allowed to vote]
held an election in 1864 when Brown
low was chosen Governor. In his first
message to the Legislature he took
high ground in favor of the equality
Of the races before the law, aud in
sisted that the colored people we're
not only entitled to educational facili
ties but should also be clothed
with the elective franchise. 1t
was not long before the laws of
Tennessee were remodsled in conform
ity with his views. In 1867 he was re-
elected Governor, and two years later
he was chosen United States Senator
for q full term of six years. He was,
however, in 1871, Frustrated by a
stroke of paralysis, and as a conse-
quence. never ranked prominently as
q Senator. Since the expiration of his
term be has lived quietly at his home
In Knoxville, paying but little atten-
ton to public affairs. He leaves a
wife and several children. James
O'Brien, q teamster who used to run
on the road between here and Palisade
prior to the completion of our local
railway, was q brother in-law Of the
Tennessee Senator. The record of de-
ceased. cannot be pointed to as that oil
q model statesman, and yet we have
no doubt that be accomplished a great
deal more good than evil in this world.
DECLINES TO BE A CANDIDATE.-By
reference to a card published In to-
days SENTINEL 1t will be Q that
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