believers; and a similar fate awaits them. Nullification has been attended with the worst of consequences in all ages. In the garden of Eden, our first parents were induced by the devil, in the form of a serpent, to nullify the laws of God; and, believing it to be a "peaceful remedy," they made the dreadful "experiment." Cain, in the case of Abel, nullified the law of God; and he was branded in the forehead as a traitorous murderer. The nation of Jews who perished in the siege of Jerusalem were all nullifiers. So were the rebellious inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah. And the antediluvians, for their South-Carolina politics, encountered the very devil, in the days of the Flood. And the King of Egypt, in trying to carry his "Ordinance" into effect, lost his life in the Red Sea. And had the South Carolina Nullifiers gone a little further with their scheme of secession, Old Hickory Jackson would have drowned them in the harbor of Charleston. Indeed, General Scott was

ordered to the port of Charleston with the regular army, and the writ of old Jackson was in the hands of the United States Marshal for the arrest of the leaders of the rebellion, with a view to hanging them. Knowing this, they came to terms, and a compromise was effected.

And, by way of admonition to all Disunionists, I conclude this epistle in the language of Holy Writ:"Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers.

For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they

that resist shall receive to themselves DAMNATION." W. G. BROWNLOW,

Editor of the Knoxville Whig.

Knoxville Whig, Oct. 13, 1860.

CHAPTER III.

CASE OF REV. dr. neeLY, THE ALABAMA SECESSIONIST-PRAYING THE SOUTH NOT TO SUBMIT TO THE INAUGURATION OF LINCOLN-EXHORTATION TO MODERATION.

Another Withdrawal from our List.

THE following correspondence will explain itself; and we therefore leave it to our readers to pass upon:

"REV. W. G. BROWNLOW:

"JEFFERSON, ALA., Oct. 4, 1860.

"DEAR SIR:-I subscribed for your paper a month or so ago, in the belief that you would honorably advocate the principles of the party to which I belong, and use all proper means to secure the election of Bell and Everett. But, a short time since, to my utter astonishment, you published a short editorial about Dr. Neely, of the Alabama Conference, which I think is very far from honorable, and shows your unscrupulousness, and the little regard you have for the reputation of others, and is also a reflection upon the Church to which Dr. Neely belongs, and a slander upon the Alabama Conference, before which he was tried and

fully acquitted of improper motives, and has gone forth for the last ten years with the endorsement of this body. I am a strong party man, but love my Church and the reputation of her ministry more than party; and I have no confidence in the political honesty of a man who will defame the name of a minister and slander such a body of men as I know the Alabama Conference to be, for party purposes. I am no satellite of Dr. Neely's: I am barely acquainted with him,— only regard him with that friendship I have in common for the ministers of the Church to which I belong.. You will please discontinue your slanderous sheet to my address, and I will bestow my patronage upon those who will promote my political principles in an honorable and gentlemanly way.

"Yours, &c.,

"A. W. COOPER."

KNOXVILLE, Oct. 15, 1860.

MR. A. W. COOPER :-I have before me your insulting and dictatorial epistle, ordering a discontinuance of your paper with something of a flourish,—all characteristic of its author, who is known to be a self-willed and self-conceited man, suffering greatly from a disease, common among men of your calibre, known as the big-head. You have only thirteen weeks of the paper due you after receiving the issue containing this correspondence; and, when you speak of ordering a discontinuance, confine yourself to the truth in this respect.

It seems that I have offended you by my well-timed, but moderate, castigation of Rev. P. P. Neely, a Methodist travelling preacher in the Alabama Conference, for making stump-speeches favorable to the cause of Breckinridge and of an organized band of traitors and hell-hounds in the South, who seek to overthrow this Government and to erect upon its ruins a Southern Confederacy, where a few corrupt and ambitious demagogues may get offices and spoils they can never enjoy while the Union is preserved. You say that you will bestow your patronage elsewhere. Do so, and carry with you as many bigoted Neely men and as many blind partisan Methodists as you can influence. I can live without your patronage or theirs; and, to be candid with you and them, I want the names of no such partisan fools upon my list. Nay, I invite you and Neely, and all such men as can be enlisted, to take the field and the stump against me and my paper; and the only effect of your opposition will be to increase my list of paying subscribers!

Now, Mr. Cooper, you write as "one having authority, and not as these little scribes;" and, if you do not represent the "Alabama Conference," you at least represent Neely and his clique. Let me review you and your esteemed pastor Neely for a brief spell.

It was in the Sumpter (Ala.) Democrat of September 1, I first learned that Mr. Neely had made a stumpspeech in the court-house in Livingston in favor of the