Excerpt from Sketch of Parson Brownlow, and His Speeches: At the Academy of Music and Cooper Institute, New York, May, 1862

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 Nashville, while on his way to the North, he met Andrew Johnson. It was a singular meeting. The two men had been hit ter enemies for twenty-five years, never speaking 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 offered 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 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 young man, across the mountains into East Ten hessee, 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 shows6 sketch OF parson brownlow.

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