Memoir 1, Page 34, William G. Brownlow

"Andrew Johnson + Parson Brownlow explicitly showed them the follies of Secession--that the Devil was the first secessionist--and that the spirit was as wicked as it was unjust."

William Gannaway Brownlow (1805-1877) was a traveling Methodist preacher, newspaper editor, Senator, and Radical Republican from Tennessee. Despite being a strong advocate of slavery, Brownlow was highly opposed to secession, arguing that high-class Southerners were only interested in recreating the British aristocracy. Brownlow ran the Knoxville Whig, a Tennessean newspaper that was believed to sit at the heart of pro-Union sentiment in the state until its closure in October of 1861. Despite being granted permission to leave the South in December of 1861, Brownlow was arrested for treason and held until his release later that month. He spent the rest of the war a celebrity in the North before returning to become the post-war governor of Tennessee.