Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-08-01
JUDAS ARNOLD BROWN.


Though he has received from the tax.
payers in pension, for alleged military
services he avoided performing by
skulking in the rear and having him
self put in such bomb-proof positions
as c%ommandant of the post of Columbia
or pretending to be sick when he was
not, fifteen thousands of dollars pen
sion, and though he has received twenty
thousands of dollars for judicial SER
vices poorly performed and not per-
formed at all, A. j. Brown is now
running for Judge on the ground of his
poverty.
There are not ten voters in this Judi
cial Circuit who would not feel that
they were rich men if they had the
money which has been paid Brown,
And a majority of the voters would
feel. that they were rich if they had ono
half the money he has received from the
taxpayers. Brown 8 p~retense Of poverty
as an excuse for his treachery to the
friends and party to whom he owes all
that he is has not even the merit of
originality. 1t was because he was
hard up, that he needed more money,
which induced one Judas Iscariot to
sell his Lord for thirty pieces of silver.
But there was this difference between
Judas lscariot and Judas Brown. Is
CARROT contracted with the High Priests
and Pharisees to deliver his Savior over
to them and he did it. Brown has con
tracted with the Democracy of this Ju-
dicial Circuit to deliver the judicial
power of the circuit over to them and
he won't do it. He can not deliver the
goods, as the result of tomorrow's cleo.
ton will show. There is more resem-
blance between Judas Brown and
Benedict Arnold than there is between
Judas Iscariot and Judas Brown. Ar
mold had the salary of a Major General
in the Patriot army, and Miss Shipper,
whom he married, had a good estate,
but Arnold was such a poor f~inancier
that he got behind, he got in debt and
because he was poor, as Brown says he
is, Arnold turned traitor and betrayed
his friend Washington and his com
rades of the Revolutionary army. Ar
mold made a contract with the red
coated British to deliver into their
hands the Fortress and garrison of West
Point, m of the most important posi-
tions held by the American army. For
this treason Arnold was to receive and
did receive fifty thousand dollars in
gold but he did not deliver to the Brit
ish the goods-West Point. His in
famous plot was discovered, his partner
and associate in the crime, John Andre,
was hanged, as Arnold would have
been had he not fled to a British ship.
Arnold failed to deliver the goods
West Point and its garrison, just as
Brown will fail to deliver this circuit
to the enemies of Republicanism. And
here the similarly between Judas Ar
mold and Judas Brown ceases, for Ar.
mold did have the pleasure of jingling
and handling tho fifty thousand in
shining gold pieces. Brown will not
only fail to deliver the goods he has
contracted to deliver but he will never,
as Arnold did, receive the price of his
treachery.
There is another striking difference
between Judas Arnold and Judas
Brown. Arnold wasa magnificent SOL
der, always led his men in battle, was
tho bravest of the brave, and before he
sold his countrymen, or tried to sell
them he lost his leg fighting under the
stars and stripes. Brown not only did
not lead his mon in battle but he would
not follow them. Since John Sewer
and Isaac Shelby, more than n hun
bred years ago, assembled the brave
and patriotic ancestors of the people of
this circuit to fight for freedom at
Kings Mountain, no East Tennessean
ever wore a sword who was as unworthy
of it as A. ]. Brown. This modern