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he seemed to forgive my unfamiliar isms.
The told me that he had often seen Parson Brownlow, in the pulpit, before opening his Bible to read the text of his sermon, first take out a couple of loaded pistols and lay one of them on each side of the holy volume.
This precaution, he said, he was obliged to take, in order to defend himself, if suddenly assailed, by ruffians whom he often denounced.
The anecdotes, admiringly told, that he related of the parson, proved him to be, of all living Americans — not even Stephen A. Douglas excepted — the most indecent and unscrupulous of speech.
Let it be remembered that Parson Brownlow is still the pastor, in good standing, of an orthodox Southern Church, although he endorsed and eulogized the conduct of a mob, who publicly burned a negro slave to death, without form of law.
The editor knew Greeley too. Greeley, upon the hull, was a clever fellow personally; but a d----d rascal, no two ways about it, politically.
Worst man in the countr
esolution which conferred such unusual honors on the representatives of the New York press.
There were other reasons: which he would not name here.
It was unprecedented.
That was enough!
He sat down.
Shrill and loud, and in ringing tones came the sentence through the theatre:
And if it is not enough, Mr. President, I have other reasons to give!
I turned round, and saw, in the Georgia delegation, a tall, lank, bony, red-headed man, with his thin wiry finger stretched out à la Randolph — his body more than half bent over the gallery.
Unpre-re-cedented!
he shrilly shouted, quivering with indignation, unpre-re-cedented, why!
sir, it's unparalleled, outrageous and insufferable.
What, sir!
have we come here to tolerate in our midst, and not only tolerate, no sir, not only that, but honor, sir, honor, sir, an emissary of that infamous abolition sheet, the New York Tribune!
I chuckled!
The poker was stirring; the lions and lesser beasts were beginning to roar!
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