Year: 1866

VIII Favor a Southern Alliance viii


England and France.


A correspondent favors us with the fol-
lowing extract from one Of the series of let
tiers written by the present Governor fTen
nessee to ID Pryne, a Northern Congrega
tional minister. Ii will be observed that the
letter was written only a short time before
she breaking out of the war. How far il
may have infamed the prejudices and in.
fuenced the action of that class of persons in
East Tennessee who followed its teachings
and engaged in the rebellion, we leave the
reader &c Judge. 1t is not often that we give
place in our columns to matter Of such
coarseness. We do 20 now simply to show
the Inconsistency and dishonesty Of those in
Tennessee, with Gov. Brownlow at their head.
who are seeking to perpetuate strife by a
system Of selfish prescription against that
class of our citizens who acted with the South
in the recent rebellion:


But, sir, the South can in two months en-
ter into an alliance with England or France,
commercial and political, offensive and de
fensive, and in either case it will be utter
ruin % the Northern States of this Confede-
racy. England and France want our rice,
tobacco, and cotton, but they don't want the
manufactures of New England. An alliance
between England and these Southern States,
will break down the existing tariff system,
discriminating in favor of New England
manufactures as a rope OF sand, and scatter
all your hopes to the winds, and coming at
once in collision with your ancient competi-
tor; and her low wages, without that protec-
ton which has built your cities and towns,
you must be destroyed. Whenever such an
alliance shall be formed, and our cotton and
other products landed at either Liverpool or
Havre, and purchased again at high rates,
New England will see the handwriting on
the WALL


/ sir, would favor an alliance with France
as a means of more efiectually furnishing
and starving out the abolitionists of the
North. The far seeing monarch of the
French, would unite with us on our own
terms, as it would afford him an opportunity
10 crush the commerce and manufacturers
of old England, and make her feel that she
is dependent upon her ancient enemy, as well
as atone for villainous treatment of his uncle,
Napoleon Bonaparte. Dissolve this Union,
you infamous villains, and we shall make
this proposition at once TO Louis Napoleon,
a most sagacious monarch, and he would
quarter at New Orleans 200, 900 Frenchmen,
and at Chesapeake 100000 more we would
then command the Mississippi valley, whip
the Northwestern States into our COnfederacy
and we would then turn upon the New Eng
land States, and cause the hurricane Of civil
war 10 rage and sweep from Mason and Dix
on's line TO the cod fisheries of Maine, until
we would extinguish the last abolition foot
held ON the continent of Americal Face
to face, knife to knife, steel to steel, and pike
TO pike, we would meet you, and as We would
cause you TO bleed at every pore, we would
make you regret in the bitter agonies of
death that you had ever felt any concern for
the African race!


Sir, if the fanatical, wicked and internal
course pursued by you and your unprinci-
pied associates, is continued, the result will
be as have said, and you or your children
will live to see it. Pale-faced poverty and
dismay are already staring some of your
manufacturers and operatives in the face
We are sending our orders TO England and
France for goods and driving your hell-de-
serving freedom-shrieker into the holding
of Union meetings and making these against
their will, curse all agitators Of the slavery
question, and resolve that John Brown and
his murderous associates got only Justice
when hung at Charleston Carry on your
war, if you choose death rather than life,
and we will stain every swamp in the South
with yours and our own blood, and with the
e ,,,f,, soI g. 10
upon you in the North, at the hour of mid
night, aad as long as lucifer match can be
found, we win burn up your substance?


Now, Mr.. Pryne, may | ask you and your
fellow-laborers in the cause of the devil, to
pause, and lift the veil of the future, not
quarter of a century ahead Of you, and use
your influence TO stay the fanatical hand
raised 20 strike the blow of ruin to your
country. Call around you a council of your
head men and warriors, Senator Seward,
Joshua r. Giddings, Chase and Fred Doug
lass, for whom you are doing journey work,
and go to that victim in the lunatic asylum,
Garrett Smith, whose tool you have been for
years, and upon whose money you have
lived and fed your wife and children-ask
them all if you had not better change your
programme. If the response is not satisfac-
tory, call prayer meeting, and have Wen
del Phillips, Beecher, Cheever, and all the
long-faced hyProcrites who insult God, and
mock religion, by calling upon him for
mercy-pray old John Brown and his con-
federates out of hell, where the whole batch
ofyou are going with lightning speed Ask
God to forgive you for your wickedness-
praying morning, evening and noon, with
your face towards Harper's Ferry Ask him
TO wash your filthy garments from the stain
of blood Of your Kansas and Virginia muir
ders and importune him until you get your
answer--"go and sin no more-sin no longer
against conscience and your country's laws
and Constitution" Don't pray for heaven,
for no power can qualify you to walk the
streets of the New Jerusalem Don't ask
for mercy, for the winged messenger can
never light on such mean and detestable
creatures. Don't ask to be punished in hell,
for that would be inadequate TO your crimes!
Ask to be dRRihildtod, or banished 10 the ut
most verge Of astronomical imagination,
where the ghost of negro may never rise
up TO remind you whence you camel


With this exhortation | will let you rest
until my many pressing and official engage
ments viii allow me to stir you up on some
other point.


W. G. BRowNLow,


Editor Knorrile Wing.


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