Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1869 — Brownlow’s Valedictory as a Journalist [ARTICLE]

Brownlow’s Valedictory as a Journalist

The KnuxvilhS Whig has been reorganized under the firm name of T. II aws & Co., and on tbe Ist of February will be issued again as a daily paper. Dr. Thos. 11. Pearnc has been elected by tbe company as political, religious, and general editor, and Win. Rule lias been employed as local editor, and the Rroivulow sign is taken down. The feet is nrmomteed in the last number of the Wceklv Knoxville Whig, which contains the valedictory, it reads; “The Whig, a journal I have edited for the last thirty years, now passes into other and more able and vigorous hands. As a member of the new company', owningthe office, I shall feel a deep interest; in the success of the enterprise, and will do all in my power to promote its success. In reviewing my long and eventful career as an editor, 1 have this to say, that had I my life to live over, I would persue the sad no course I have pursued, only more so. If iu life I have been violent on some occasions, juiv apology is, that like the Apostle Paul, on many occasions-J have fought with ‘Roasts at Kphisus,.’ In taking my leave oflaac&y ofAny reader's, I will remind llfehrfhat before they were -born their parents were subscribers of mine. I have, however, the consolation to-know that I have always taught both parents and children -to- hold last to the forms of sound doctrine; and in defending'Them I have invariably uttered the words of truth and soberness. My friends I wish every possible success in all the undertakings uf—life QiLjuiy_ enemies I have no favors to ask, but, am willing to let bv-gones be by-goncs.

“W. G. BROWNLOW.”