"We intend to fight the secessionists until hell freezes over, and then fight them on ice, Or any other man."
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Members of the United States SenatePublishers from the United StatesRepublican Party (United States) politiciansGovernors of TennesseeJournalists from Virginia
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The Jeffersonian newspaper of Stroudsburg, Pa., August 15, 1861. Appeared in a sidebar article prefaced by: Parson Brownlow recently declared in relation to the Union men of East Tennessee:... NOTE: It is unclear from the context whether "Any other man" is part of Brownlow's quote or an editorial comment by The Jeffersonian writer.
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William G. Brownlow
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. Brownlow rose to prominence in the late 1830s and early 1840s as editor of the Whig, a polemical newspaper in East Tennessee that promoted Whig Party ideals and opposed secession in the years leading
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