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William G. Brownlow Quotes

1805–1877 United States

William Gannaway "Parson" Brownlow (August 29, 1805 – April 29, 1877) was an American newspaper publisher, Methodist minister, book author, prisoner of war, lecturer, and politician. He served as Governor of Tennessee from 1865 to 1869 and as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1869 to 1875.

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We intend to fight the secessionists until hell freezes over, and then fight them on ice, Or any other man.

Quoted in The Jeffersonian (1861)

If hell were raked with a fine tooth comb it is exceedingly doubtful whether any such material could be found there as inhabit this village; and should the devil seek a substitute for hell Jonesboro would qualify.

Jonesboro Whig (1840)

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