William G. Brownlow (1805-1877)

Biography

Born in Wythe County, Virginia, in 1805, Brownlow was an iitinerant preacher and publisher of the Knoxville Whig. He fell out of popularity with the Confederate government in Tennessee by condemning the secession and had his paper shut down and himself arrested from 1861-62. In 1865 he became governor of Tennessee and led an oppressive Reconstructionist regime. He was governor of the state until 1869, when he was elected to the US Senate, where he served until 1873. (Columbia Encyclopedia)

Bibliography

Non-Fiction

• Helps to the Study of Presbyterianism: or, An Unsophisticated Exposition of Calvinism, With Hopkinsian Modifications and Policy, With a View to a More Easy Interpretation of the Same. To Which Is Added a Brief Account of the Life and Travels of the Author; Interspersed with Anecdotes (1934)
• Baptism Examined: or, The True State of the Case. To Which Is Prefixed, a Review of the Assaults of the Banner & Pioneer. To Which Is Also Added, an Appendix ... (1842)
• A Political Register, Setting Forth the Principles of the Whig and Locofoco Parties in the United States: With the Life and Public Services of Henry Clay, Also an Appendix Personal to the Author, and a General Index (1844)
• Speech, Being a Reply to Thomas Dog Arnold, Ass, Who Appeared Before the Invitation, on Saturday Night, the 18th of September, 1852, in the Hearing of a Large Audience, and Assailed Said Brownlow ... (1852)
• Americanism Contrasted With Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy, in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture: In Which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, Are Shown up in Their True Colors (1856)
• The Great Iron Wheel Examined: or, Its False Spokes Extracted, and an Exhibition of Elder Graves its Builder, in a Series of Chapters (1856)
• A Sermon on Slavery: A Vindication of the Methodist Church, South, Her Position Stated (1857)
• The "Little Iron Wheel" Enlarged; or, Elder Graves, its Builder, Daguerreotyped, by the way of an Appendix (1857)
• Ought American Slavery To Be Perpetuated? (with Abram Pryne, 1858)
• Brownlow, the Patriot and Martyr: Showing His Faith and Works (1862)
• Sketches of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of Secession With a Narrative of Personal Adventures Among the Rebels (1862)
• Sketch of Parson Brownlow and His Speeches (1862)
• Sufferings of Union Men (1862)
• Speech of Parson Brownlow, of Tennessee: Against the Great Rebellion (1862)
• Secessionists and Other Scoundrels: Selections from Parson Brownlow's book (editor Stephen V. Ash, 1999)

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