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S K E T O H O F
PARSON BROWNLOW,
AND HIS
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AT THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC AND COOPER INSTITUTE,
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SKETCH OF PARSON BROWNLOW,
BY THEODORE TILTOIT.
[The following is part of an editorial article in tho Independent, May 22, 1S62.—
Ed. Pulpit and Kostbum.]
Me. Brownlow is drawing nigh to sixty years of age, tall and
slender in figure, with dark hair and eyes, a face of remarkably
sharp outlines, wearing just now a look of illness and weariness
by reason of his rigorous imprisonment. He came originally from
Virginia, hailing from the same birth-place with Floyd, near
"Wythe, in the western part of the State. He began life honest, as
he says, and has remained poor ; while Floyd, turning knavish, has
grown rich. Till his twenty-fifth year he was a house-carpenter.
Then, dropping his jack-plane, he took the saddle-bags of a travel-
ing Methodist preacher, and rode a hard circuit for ten years. Bo-
coming engrossed in the political questions of the time, and never,
as he testifies, remaining neutral on any subject, he became a parti-
san leader in politics, and soon began to exercise great influence as
the editor of a newspaper— an employment which, for thirty
years, has supplied him with plenty of hard work.
He exhibits in his character a singular union of high moral and
intellectual qualities with an almost unaccountable deficiency of
that sense of the fitness of things which we call good taste. Thus,
in his personal habits, he is singularly pure ; he never tastes liquor,
never has used tobacco, never has seen a play at a theater, and
•never has dealt a pack of cards — a remarkable record for a South-
erner. But when he opens his lips, his language, although without
positive profanity (except when quoting other men's), is often so
grating to polite ears that it keeps secsiti re listeners hou\ blushed
Pulpit and Eostkum— Supplement No. 1.
4 SKETCH OP PAESOU BROWNLOW.
only because it irresistibly provokes to laughter. He confesses
that his chief natural gift is in piling epithets upon the heads
of scoundrels. He knows no pleasure equal to discovering a new
rascal, or a new rascality of an old one, and printing the name and
facts in capital letters in the next Knoxville Wliig. But he is a
man whom a thorough New England training, moral and intel-
lectual, would have built up into a dignified, impressive, and splen-
did character. He is one of many men in the South, made of
nature's best stuff, whom the influence of slavery, unconsciously
to themselves, has defrauded of their just rank in the scale of true
nobility and honorable fame.
When the question arose of the secession of Tennessee, he made
an intrepid stand against it. Having thus stirred a hornet's nest,
he had not to wait long to feel the stings. He was insulted to his
face, dogged in his walks, and threatened with pistol-shots. Ho
was commanded by traitors to transfer the allegiance of his paper
to Jefferson Davis, but indignantly refused. He was then tempted
with a bribe, which he still more indignantly spurned. Then his
pen was smitten out of his hands. The traitors invaded his office,
stopped his press, and turned his press-room into a machine-shop
for boring rifles to aim at loyal hearts. Still continuing to show
his personal allegiance to the Union, he was hunted out of Knox-
ville and driven to take refuge in the wastes of the Smoky Mount-
ains, where he shot bears and wild turkeys, and slept on a blanket
ou the bare ground. Meanwhile, without his knowledge, his wife
procured from Eichmond a pass to permit him to retire from the
State. This fact, being communicated to him in his mountain re-
treat, brought him back to Knoxville, where, as soon as he showed
his face, he was seized, in violation of the pledge, thrown into jail,
and kept in loathsome confinement for three months.
During his stay in the prison, almost every day a cart with a
coffin drove to the door, and some victim was taken out to be
hung. The prisoners, none of whom were charged with any other
offense than loyalty to the Union, seldom had a day's, and some-
times not an hour's, notice when the cart would call, or for whom.
In ExcKang-e
Peabody Inst, of Balbo,
June 16 1927
SKETCH OF PARSON BEOWNLOW. 5
Mr. Brownlow, after fully expecting to be hung, and after prepar-
ing a speech to be delivered on the gallows, was finally ordered out
of confinement, and out of the Confederacy.
At IlNrashville, while on his way to the ITorth, he met Andrew
Johnson. It was a singular meeting. The two men had been bit-
ter enemies for twenty-five years, never cpeaking to one another
in all that time. The quarrel arose out of the partisan warfare
waged over the names of General Jackson and John Quincy
Adams, Johnson siding with Jackson, and Brownlow with Adams.
But at Nashville the two men met face to face, each ofiered to the
other his right hand, both shed tears, neither spoke a word, but
immediately separated, mutually reconciled ! It was honorable to
both men — the grudge of a lifetime melted away by one good act
of mutual magnanimity !
These are the two men who now represent before the nation
the spirit and temper of the people of East Tennessee. That
mountainous country is guarded by a hardy race, accustomed to
toil, owning few slaves, eager disputants in political struggles, and
proudly jealous of their civil rights. Unlike the other portions of
the State, where slavery has more completely corrupted the people,
labor is held honorable, and laziness despised.
Johnson, like Brownlow, is a man who has grown up with a
loyal respect for hard work. As Brownlow came from one of the
'â– ''second families of Virginia," Johnson came from a similar family
in North Carolina. He was a tailor. Think of it ! The military
governor of a slave State having been a tailor, and not a cavalier!
He walked, as a yoimg man, across the mountains into East Ten-
nessee, carrying his needles and scissors in a pack over his shoulder.
He could not read, but soon married a good woman who taught him
how. He bent over his seams in the daytime, and over his books
at night. . Joining a debating society, he soon began the art of
thinking on his legs. In due time he went to Nashville, first as
legislator, and afterward as governor, returning home in the inter-
vals of public business to make jackets and trowsers for an honest
living. The town of Greenville, among the mountains, still shows
5 SKETCH OP PAESON BROWNLOW.
the sign, "Andrew Johnson, Tailor." Shortly after rising from the
tailor's bench to the governor's chair, an early friend, who had
•been a blacksmith, became Judge Pepper, chief-justice of the State.
Tlie governor made with his own hands a suit of clothes and pre-
sented them to the judge, and the judge made with his own hands
a shovel and tongs and presented them to the governor.
The secret of the steadfast loyalty of East Tennessee lies in one
fact : The people own few slaves, and have never learned to despise
labor. In all the States, and sections of States, where labor has
been held honorable, and the laborer has not been degraded, there
has been no rebellion against the Government. In all the States
and districts where the prevailing spirit of the people has been of
subserviency to slavery, the sentiment of loyalty has been tainted,
and the rebellion has been welcomed. The fact is full of signifi-
cance. It demonstrates beyond question that the great struggle
now shaking the land is undisguisedly between slavery and free-
dom. All men's eyes are opening to this fact — even Mr. Brown-
low's. For though he has never been an Abolitionist, yet his late
wounds and sufferings were inflicted by slavery, and he knows it.
"We were not surprised, therefore, to hear him make a singular
confession in his Brooklyn speech. " If the issue," said he, " were
between the Christian religion and the Union, I would go against
the Union; if it be between the Union and slavery, I will go
against slavery" — thus unconsciously putting slavery at the third
remove from the Christian religion — and that is where it belongs !
SUFFERINGS OF UNION MEN.
An Address hy Parson Brownlow {Rev. W. G, Brcywrdaw, D.D.), delivered
, before the citizens of New York, at the Academy of Music, May 15, 1862.
EEPOETED BY CHA8. B. OOLLAE.
The Reception of Parson Brownlow on this his first puhlic ap-
pearance in New York, was marked by the most hearty and enthu-
siastic demonstrations. Long before the hour named for the com-
mencement of the proceedings, a dense throng, thousands in number,
had assembled, filling all the seats, aisles, and lobbies, from the par-
quette to the upper tiers — the parquette being reserved especially for
ladies accompanied by gentlemen. Hundreds of leading citizens
occupied the stage — the various professions being well represented
by many distinguished gentlemen, evincing by their presence on
this occasion their desire to render a just tribute of praise to the
gallant Parson, whose sufferings, as a Union man, had awakened
so general a sympathy throughout the whole community. As the
Parson was conducted upon the stage by Ohas. T. Eodgers, the
President of the Young Men's Republican Union, under whose
auspices the Reception was given, he was received witli the most
rapturous applause, the audience, en masse, rising to their feet,
waving their hats and handkerchiefs, and joining in one universal
shout of applause.
Mr. RoDGEES stated that, according to the announcement through
the press, it was expected that Governor Morgan would preside ;
but he had received a letter from his Excellency, regretting that his
oflicial duties prevented his attendance on so interesting an occa-
sion, as he felt extremely anxious, in common with thousands of his
fellow-citizens of New York, to enjoy the opportunity thus afforded
of expressing his admiration of and sympathy for the man who,
with true heroism, had withstood the blandishments and braved
the threats of the leaders and fomenters of the conspiracy against
the Union.
Wm. M. Evaets, Esq., being called to the chair, said that he
shared with all the great disappointment at the absence of the
Governor of the State. But we might well pardon the loss of his
8 PAESON BEOWNLOW ON THE
dignity to the eclat of the occasion, when we knew that his absence
was due to that necessity which at this time enveloped all who
were invested with public trusts. He was proud to do all that ho
could to testify his appreciation of the heroism of Mr. Brownlow.
As we should proceed in the great duties first of subduing the re-
bellion, and then of reinstituting in its strength the Constitution as
it is, and the Union as it is, we might be sure that these Union men
of Tennessee, and their compatriots in the mountains of North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama, would aid us.
"With their aid we should hold the center as well as the rim of the
rebellion. Upon them as a basis we could reinstate the dominion
of the Government all over the land. He would no longer stand
between them and the Eev. Mr. Brownlow, whom he now had the
pleasure of introducing. [Loud and long- continued and repeated
applause.]
Mr. Beownlow then came forward and spoke as follows :
Ladies and Gentlemen — I take occasion, in advance of anything
and all I may say, to apprise you of what you all will have discov-
ered before I take my seat — that is to say, that in my public ad-
dresses, no matter what my theme may be, I do not present it to
an audience with an eloquence that charms, or with that beauty
of diction which captivates and fascinates an assemblage. This, I
may be allowed to say, I most sincerely regret, because there is no
power on earth so great, and of such influence upon the human
mind, as the power and influence of oratory, finished and high
wrought. Csesar controlled men by exciting their fears ; Cicero,
by captivating their affections. The influence of one perished with
?ts author; the influence of the other has continued throughout all
time, and, with public speakers, will continue to the end of time.
But there is one thing I am confident of, this evening, and that
is, that I address an appreciative audience, an assemblage who
have congregated on this occasion to hear some facts in reference
to the great rebellion South — the gigantic conspiracy of the nine-
teenth century ; and I shall therefore look more to what I shall say
than to the manner of saying it — more, if you please, to the sub-
ject-matter of what I shall say than to any studied eff'ort at display
or beauty and force of language. I will be allowed by you an ad-
ditional remark or two, personal in their nature to myself. For the
last thirty-five years of my somewhat eventful life I have been
accustomed to speak in public upon all the subjects afloat in the
land, for I have never been neutral on any subject that ever came
SUPFEEINGS OF UNION MEN. 9
up in that timo. [Laugliter and applause,] Independent in all
things, and under all circumstances, I have never been entirely
neutral, but have always taken a hand in what w^as afloat. About
three years ago my voice entirely failed from a stubborn attack of
bronchitis, and for two years of that time I was unable to speak
above a whisper. During that period I performed a pilgrimage to
New York and had an operation performed upon my throat, and
was otherwise treated by an eminent physician of this city, who
greatly benefited me, and who, when I parted with him, enjoined
it upon me to go home and occasionally exercise my speaking ma-
chinery, and, if I could do no better, to retire to the grove of the
town or village where I live, and to make short speeches, to declaim
upon stumps or logs, as the case might be. Instead of doing so,
however, in the town in which I live I frequently addressed a tem-
perance organization in favor of total abstinence; and you all
know that is a good cause. ["Good," and applause.] At other
times, as a regular ordained licensed Methodist preacher, I tried to
deliver short sermons to the audience. That is a good cause, you
admit. [Applause.] And yet both together failed to restore my
voice — [laughter] — and when I left home for the North, by way of
Cincinnati, I had no intention or expectation of making a speech ;
but as soon as I opened my batteries in Pike's Opera House, in Cin-
cinnati, against this infinitely infernal rebellion, I found myself able
to speak, and to be heard half a mile, [Great laughter.] I attribute
the partial restoration of my voice to the goodness, the glory, and
the Godlike cause in which I profess to be engaged — that of vindi-
cating the Union. [Applause.] "We are, ladies and gentlemen, in
the midst of a revolution, and a most fearful one, as you all know
it is. I shall, in the remarks I may make here, advance no senti-
ment, no idea; I shall employ no language that I have not advanced
and employed time and again at home, away down in Dixie.
[" Good," and applause.] I should despise myself, and merit the
scorn and contempt of every lady and gentleman under the sound
of my voice, if I were to come here with one set of principles and
opinions for the North, and another set for the South when I am
there. [Applause.] I will utter no denunciations of the wretched,
the corrupt, and the infamous men who inaugurated this revolu-
tion South here, that I would not utter in their hearing on the
streets of the town where I reside. I therefore say to you in the
outset of my remarks I propose to make, what I have time and
again said through the columns of the most widely circulated paper
10 PAESON BEOWNLOW ON THE
they had in the Southwest — a paper, by the way, which they snp-
pressed and crushed out on tlie 25th of October last — the last Union
journal that remained in any portion of the Southern Confederacy,
and to this good hour the last and the only religious journal in the
eleven seceded States, ^'pplause.] I say to you, then, as I have
said at home time and again, that the'people of the South',- the
demagogues and leaders of tJje Soutfe, are to blame for having
brought about this state of things, and'not the people of the North.
[Cheers.] / We have intended down South for thirty yearHa break
up this Government. It has been our settled purpose and our sole
aim down South to destroy the Union and break up the Govern-
ment. We have had the Presidency in the South twice to your
once, and five of our men were re-elected to the Presidency, filling
a period of forty years. In addition to that, we had divers men
elected for one term, and no man at the North ever was permitted
to serve more than one term ; and, in addition to having elected
our men twice to your once, and occupied the chair twice as long
as you ever did, we seized upon and appropriated two or three
miscreants from the North that we elected to the Presidency, and
plowed with them as our heifers. [Great laughter and applause.]
We asked of you and obtained at your hands a fugitive slave law.
You voted for and helped us to enact and to establish it. We
asked of you and obtained the repeal of the Missouri Compromise
line, which never ought to have been repealed. I fought against
it to the bitter end, and denounced it and all concerned in repeal-
ing it, and I repeat it here again to-night. We asked and obtained
the admission of Texas into the Union, that we might have slave
territory enough to form some four or five more great States, and
you granted it. You have granted us, from first to last, all we
have asked, all we have desired ; and hence I repeat that this thing
of secession, this wicked attempt to dissolve the Union, has been
brought about without the shadow of a causeJ It is the work of
the worst men that ever God permitted to live on the face of this
earth. [Applause.] It is the work of a set of men down South
who, in winding up this rebellion, if our administration and Gov-
ernment shall foil to hang them as high as Haman — hang every one
of them — they will make an utter failure. I have confidence my-
self, and, thank God, I have always had faith and confidence, in
the Government crushing out this rebellion. [Applause.] We
Lave the men at the head of afifairs who will do it — [cheers] — and
that gallant and glorious man, McClellan — [enthusiastic cheering
SUFFEEINGS OF UNION MEIT. H
and waving of handkerchiefs, wliioh lasted for some minutes] — a
man in whose ability and integrity I have all the time had confi-
dence, and prophesied he would come out right side up. [Laugh-
ter and applause.] My own distracted and oppressed section of the
country, East Tennessee, falls now by the new arrangement into
the military district of that hero, Frempnt. [Great cheering and
some hisses.] We rejoiced in East Tennessee when we heard that
we had fallen into his division — [applause] — and although I have
always differed with him in politics, yet, in a word, he is my sort
of man. He will either make a spoon or spoil a horn — [great
laughter] — in the attempt. "When he gets ready to go down into
East Tennessee, I hope he will let me know. I want to go with
him, side by side, on a fine horse, with epaulets, a cocked hat, and
a sword; and our friend Briggs, of New York, a former member of
Congress, who is now on the platform, has promised me a large
coil of rope, and I want the pleasure of showing them whom to hang
— of tying the rope around their necks. [Great applause.] I re-
marked that I had confidence in our Government and army ulti-
mately crushing out this rebellion. "We have had just a few experi-
ments in this thing of crushing out rebellion. We had, a long time
ago, one on a small scale in Massachusetts, and the Government
crushed it out. Afterward we had the whisky rebellion in the
neighboring State of Pennsylvania, and the Government applied
the screws and crushed it out. Still more recently we had a
terrible rebellion in South Carolina, and, with old Hickory at
the helm, we crushed it out — [applause] — and if my prayers
and tears could have resurrected the old hero two years ago —
though I never supported him in my life — and placed him in the
chair disgraced and occupied' by that miserable mockery of a man
from Wheatland, we would have had this rebellion crushed out
long ago ; for, let General Jackson have been in politics what he
■^as — I knew him well — he was a true patriot and a sincere lover