The Whig was one of the most influential newspapers in nineteenth-century Tennessee, due mainly to Brownlow's editorials, which often included vindictive personal attacks and fierce diatribes.

In spite of its anti-secessionist sentiments, the Whig was staunchly pro-slavery in the early days of the Civil War but, upon Brownlow's return from exile in 1863, the paper adopted an abolitionist stance.

* Brownlow's Knoxville Whig and Independent Journal ( May 19, 1849 – April 7, 1855 )

* Brownlow's Knoxville Whig ( April 14, 1855 – July 27, 1861 )

* Brownlow's Weekly Whig ( August 3, 1861 – October 26, 1861 )

* Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and Rebel Ventilator ( November 11, 1863 – February 21, 1866 )

* Brownlow's Knoxville Whig ( February 28, 1866 – January 27, 1869 )

As Brownlow's political idol was Kentucky senator Henry Clay, the publisher pleaded with the Whig Party to make Clay its presidential candidate.

Brownlow's anti-Catholic sentiment was present in the earliest editions of the Whig, and gradually intensified over the years.

* Brownlow's Whig, an East Tennessee, USA, newspaper published under various titles

In pace with Brownlow's efforts to restore the movie to something close to its 1927 incarnation, two scores were prepared in 1979 – 1980 ; one by Carl Davis in the UK and one by Carmine Coppola in the US.

In March 1840, a gunman fired two shots into Brownlow's house, although both shots missed.

East End toughs and local Berkhamsted men and women fought that night against Brownlow's men in what became known nationally as the Battle of Berkhamsted Common.

Engraving from Parson Brownlow's Book, showing Confederate soldiers hanging East Tennessee bridge-burning conspiracy | bridge-burning conspirators Jacob and Henry Harmon

Brownlow's uncompromising and radical viewpoints and his relentless invectives against his opponents made him one of the most divisive figures in Tennessee political history and one of the most controversial politicians of the Reconstruction-era South.

A watershed event in this context was Kevin Brownlow's 1980 restoration of Abel Gance's Napoléon ( 1927 ), featuring a score by Carl Davis.

Brownlow's restoration was later distributed in America re-edited and shortened by Francis Ford Coppola with a live orchestral score composed by his father Carmine Coppola.

To meet the demand, and to make up for Brownlow's diminishing interest in contributing, freelance artist Graham Dury was hired and worked alongside Chris Donald.

The next morning, at Mr. Brownlow's house in Bloomsbury, Mrs. Bedwin the housekeeper sings to Oliver (" Where Is Love?

Brownlow's audience remained gathered throughout the night after a rumor spread that Confederate forces were approaching.

Sir John Brownlow was succeeded at Belton by his brother, who was content to permit Brownlow's widow, Alice, to remain in occupation.

Hence Belton became the Brownlow's sole country home.

Oliver is made to believe by Noah Claypole, Noah's girlfriend Charlotte and Mrs. Carraway ( Mr. Brownlow's corrupt new housekeeper ) that Mr. Brownlow is ill to the point of death.

During the Irish Rebellion of 1641, Brownlow's castle and bawn were destroyed, and he and his wife and family were taken prisoner and brought to Armagh and then to Dungannon in County Tyrone.

Engraving from Brownlow's book The Great Iron Wheel Examined, showing a Baptist minister changing clothes in front of horrified women after an Baptism # Submersion | Immersion.

Attacks like this were typical of Brownlow's work.

Brownlow's run-in with the nullifiers would later influence his views on secession.

The newspaper became known for its strong pro-Whig, pro-Methodist, nativist, pro-Temperance, pro-Union, pro-slavery and an anti-secession stances, all expressed in Brownlow's vituperative but effective style of editorial attack.

Brownlow's passionately articulate stances and dramatic ( if sometimes mean-spirited ) writing also attracted thousands of subscribers from beyond Knoxville.

Brownlow's election after the Civil War as governor survived his opponents ' attempts to rig the vote.

His editorials and news reports explaining the policies and candidates of the Whig Party were reprinted and discussed throughout the country.

From the 1840s through the 1860s it was the dominant Whig Party and then Republican newspaper in the U. S. Its editorials were widely read and helped shape national opinion.

Herbert Butterfield's The Whig Interpretation of History ( 1931 ) attacked Whig history.

A young Whig, William Lamb ( the future Lord Melbourne, Prime Minister ) wrote an ‘ Epistle to the Editors of the Anti-Jacobin ’, which attacked Canning:

At Eton, Rosebery notably attacked Charles I of England for his despotism, and went on to praise his Whig forebears-his ancestor, James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope, was a minister to George I of Great Britain.

In The History of England ( 1754-1761 ), Hume challenged Whig views of the past and the Whig historians in turn attacked Hume ; but they could not dent his history.

When the British-allied Cherokee attacked several settlements in the county early in the American War for Independence ( 1776 ), most Tories joined with their Whig neighbors in fighting off the raiders and marching with General Griffith Rutherford in a punitive expedition to devastate the Overhill Cherokee towns across the Blue Ridge Mountains.

On the floor of the House, Cilley had attacked the integrity of Whig newspaper editor James Watson Webb.

Though he praised Sir Hugh in his public despatch he attacked him in private, and the Whig press, with the unquestionable aid of Keppel's friends, began a campaign of calumny to which the ministerial papers answered in the same style, each side accusing the other of deliberate treason: The result was a scandalous series of scenes in parliament and of courts martial.

He excluded Somers with other Whig magnates from the commission of the peace, and was attacked in the House of Commons ( 31 March 1704 ).

Knoxville Whig editor William " Parson " Brownlow, who had been one of slavery's most outspoken defenders, attacked secessionism with equal fervor, and embarked on a speaking tour of the Northern states to rally support for East Tennessee.

John Oldmixon simply asks for the money ( Oldmixon had attacked Pope in The Catholic Poet, but Pope claims that his real crime was plagiarism in his Critical History of England, which slandered the Stuarts and got him an office from the Whig ministry ), only to have the lord clench his money tighter.

" His reports were, " Widely quoted, bitterly attacked or enthusiastically praised, they exerted a profound influence upon public opinion and gave to their author national prominence, first as an uncompromising anti-slavery Whig, and later as an ardent Republican.