Year: 1866

Br0Wnlow Away from Home.
From the New York Eimes.l


Up 10 a recent date. Parson Brownlows
Of. Tennessee. had the reputation Of being
The fonlest moashsd man that spoke the
Eagiish language which is equal to zeying
the foulest-mouthed man on earth, for the
English laoguags has capacities of vulgar
foulnees equalIsd BY 10 other form Of NOR
tai speech with which We ars acquainted.
His ribaldry and bIaspberay as q preacher,
shocked even the rude rufians Of the Soath-
west. while his sourrili,y as a apoliticisH snd
editor. gave him > position which 10 decent
man. aud few innOcent men. could ap-
preach.


After having done as much as any other
individual Of his capacities in the South to
stimulate the fell spirit of Slavery to war.
aud treason. he saw ft for selfish ends, and
to the DISCUS Of every loyal man IN the
country, to take sides with the Unionists Of
East Tennessee. Neither they nor we lad
any more respect for his selfish loyalty
than for his ribald piety; but the course
and force of circumstances kept him from
open treachery by making it dangerous; and
the generous attention and help be obtained
from the courageous aud unfinching leader
of the Tennessee Unionists, who is now
President of the United States, induced him
to endure till the rebellion was prostrated
by our armies. Even the foulness of HE
tongue seemed to suffer an abatement for
short while, and its9Ppeared as If time
might cause him finally to be tolerated by
reputable people.


Under these circumstances, aud under
prospect Of reformation, Mr.. Johnson was
more than generous to him, aiding him to
place and power, and finally assisting him
to obtain the position of Governor, which
Johnson had vacated to assume the Vice
Presidency. But the dog will return to his
vomit. and the serpent will plunge his fangs
into the bosom 10 which he has been warm
( ed. BrownloW turned on the President
turned upon him for ends as base and sell
fish as had formerly led him to join With
| him.


The President would not-as he could
not-permit him to carry out the atrocious
and savage purposes be had designed upon
/ those who were his euemies-that is to
say, the greater part of the people of Ten
| nessee, who had neither voted for him nor
would uphold him. Brownlow actually
wanted TO inaugurats a general massacre
and plunder Of those whom he had made
foes by thirty years of personal insult; and
he proclaimed this in language so fendish-
ly vindictive as to shock every man who
had any manhood left in his nature. The
President stood between him and his out
rageous purposes; and Brownlow turned
from The people, whom the President had
saved, upon the President himself


His Office as Governor gives him no more
self-respect now than bis vocation as
preacher had given him Christian charao-
ter, while the fact that Mr. johnson held
the Office Of President seemed to add zess
to the rancor of his assaults. Heswore and
raved more furiously than he had ever done
before, and used language which would put
to blush even that Of the malignant mad
men of Cong ress. He vented his personal
malice 'in season and out Of season.
in speech, public documents. and iu bis
newspaper; and let no act or word Of the
Presidents pass without finding in it new
opportunity of revenge for his grievances.


1t was quite in keeping, therefore, when
in dispatch to Washington, recently, an
nounciug the passage of the Constitutional
Amendment in one branch Of the Tennessee
Legislature, he had the blackguard insol-
ence to add:


Give my compliments to the dirty dog
at the White House."


lie knew, Of course, that in using such
language he was perfectly safe from any
notice or reply by the party Immediately
assailed; and il it brought him renewed con-
tempt from all decent men, that was but
what be had been accustomed to from the
beginning Of his career.