Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-08-08

power shall keep me from denouncinl
the enemies of my country until m,
tongue and pen shall be paralyzed il
death. | covet no higher honor thar
to die in such holy cause, and you
brutal soldiery, therefore, has no terror
for me. Thank God, you can do n,
more than kill me, and on my deat
body there will arise score of able de
tenders of this Union. Once destroyed
this Union can never be reconstructed
and SO far as l am concerned, neither
the gates of hell or the Confederacy
shall prevail against it. Your intims
tion that might attempt to escape il
really amusing. Escape from what
Do you flatter yourself that your army
of thugs, thieves and ruffians has any
terrors of me? 1t is you, Gen. Critten
den, that should be thinking Of escape
for as sure as you live the day is com
ing when you and all like you will call
on the mountains to fall on you and
hide you from the wrath to come. In
conclusion, permit me to say that The
Whig will be issued as usual, and ]
shall be pleased 10 have copy of it,
with my compliments, delivered al
your headquarters"
There were in Knoxville, ,as elsew here,
a large number Of men who sympathiz.
ed with the Confederacy, but who had
not the courage to enlist in the army
and fight for their convictions. For all
such characters Brownlow had nothing
but contempt. When the Confederate
army took possession Of the city, a
number of these men tried to incite the
soldiers to kill Brownlow. Abiding to
this attempt, he Illuminated the follow
ing furious thunderbolt:
"These unmitigated towards, God
forsaken scoundrels, hell deserving viii
lians, black hearted assassins and muir.
derers, seek to induce strangers in the
army to take up their quarrels and
fight battles which they themselves are
too cowardly to fight. For years we
have held up these unprincipled das-
tards, dishonest, lying, swindling
scoundrels and revolving hypocrites to
the scorn, contempt and hatred of hon
est men; and though we have passed
and repassed them day by day, it never
occurred to the loathsome Williams that
they ought 10 resent it until an oppor-
tunity offered to hide behind infuriated
troops, made drunk for the occasion.
Some of the white livered towards live
by lying and swindling; others sIe
cloaking their deceit, adultry and num-
erous acts of baseness in one or another
of the churches; and other of them are
acting for pay as the tools of men Of
position and property. The equals OF
many of these men in honor are in the
penitentiary the superiors of all of them
in morals and piety are in hell"
AS is well known, Brownlow was q
Methodist preacher, very devout man
withal, who believed that one should
stop cussin' long enough occasionally
to wrestle with the Lord in prayer and
invoke those means of grace without
which a sinner would have a tough
time of it in this wicked world. Thor
oughly imbued with the notion that
the Lord could knock the Confederacy
into indiscriminate flinders if he wanted
to, and being satisfied that it ought to
be done, the reverential psrson sent up
the following very agonizing petition
and kept it standing in the columns of
the Whig indefinitely:
Almighty God, our Heavenly Father,
in whose hands are the hearts of men
and the issues of time and eternity, not
mixed up with Locofoism nor rendered
offensive in Thy sight by being identi-
fled with men of corrupt minds, evil
designs and damnable purposes, such
as are seeking to upturn the best Gov
ernment on earth, Thou hast graciously
promised to hear the prayers of those
who in an humble spirit and with true
faith-such as no secessionist can bring
into exercise-call upon Thee. Be
pleased, we beseech Thee, favorably to
look upon and bless the Union men of
this Common wealth, and sustain them
in their praiseworthy efforts to perpet-
uate this Government and, under it,
the institutions of our holy religion.
Possess their minds with the spirit of
true patriotism, enlightened wisdom
and preserving hostility toward those
traitors, political gamblers and selfish
demogogues who are seeking to build
up miserable Southern Confederacy,
aud under it to inaugurate new read
ing of the Ten Commandments, so as
to teach that the chief end of man is
niger. In these days Of trouble and
perplexity, give the common people
grace to perceive the right path, which,
Thou knowest, leads from the camps
of Southern madcaps and Northern
copperheads, and enable them stead-
fastly to walk therein. So strengthen
the common masses, o Lord, and so
direct them that, they being hindere1
neither by the fear OF fire. eaters nor by
the love Of the corrupt men in power,
nor by bribery, nor by an overcharge
of mean whisky, nor by any other
Democratic passion, but being mindful
of Thy constant superintendence, of
the awful majesty of Thy righteous
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