Sketch of Parson Brownlow, and His Speeches
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Excerpt from Sketch of Parson Brownlow, and His Speeches: At the Academy of Music and Cooper Institute, New York, May, 1862 [The following is part of an editorial article in the Independent, May 22,1862. - Ed. Pulpit and Rostrum.] Mr. 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 traveling Methodist preacher, and rode a hard circuit for ten years. Becoming engrossed in the political questions of the time, and never, as he testifies, remaining neutral on any subject, he became a partisan 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 Southerner. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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