 He derided Ross as a "habitual adulterer" and the son of a slave, and accused his relatives of stealing and committing indecent acts (Ross's son responded to the latter charge with a death threat).This quarrel between the two mem continued until Brownlow moved his newspaper to Knoxville in 1849.Ross would go on to author a book in 1857 (written in response to the earlier 1852 book, " Uncle Tom's Cabin