Show Parson Brownlaw Parson Brownlaw was a camp meeting convert from the moun moun- mountains moun-I moun mountains of Tennessee who rose to fame as a lay preacher on a circuit in- in including in in- including including five states He used as weapons the Bible and a pistol and had few equals as a master of in in- invective invective invective says the Washington Star He spared no man or issue in his vitriolic attacks The following ex ex- example example example ample of his lusty eloquence is from froma a lecture he made shortly after the Civil war If I had been author author- authorized authorized authorized some two or three years ago agoto agoto I Ito to select about two or three hundred of your most abominable slav anti antislavery ery agitators in the North and an equal number of God forsaken and hell-deserving hell at the South and had marched them to the District of Columbia hanged them on a common gallows dug for them a common grave and em em- embalmed embalmed embalmed their bodies in jimson weed and fennel dog-fennel there would have been none of this trouble |