Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-08-21
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considerable, that every thinking English
creature is tempted to 60 into manifold re-
hections and inquiries upon them.
swARMERY"
This people cannot be convinced out of
its axiom of Euclid" by any reasoning
whatsoever; on the contrary, all the world
asserting, and continually repeating and
reverberating, there soon comes that sim
gular phenomenon, which the Germans
call Schwamery g enthusiasm" is our poor
Greek equivalent) which means simply
" .SlCdrmery," or the Gathering of Men in
Swarms," and what prodigies they are ia
the habit of doing aud believing, when
thrown into that miraculous condition.
Some big Queen bee is in the centre of the
swarm but any COMMONPLACE, stupid bee,
Cleon the Tanner, Beales, John of Lyden,
John Of Brownwicham, any bee whatever,
if he can happen, by noise or otherwise, to
be chosen for the function, will straightway
&c! fatted end inflated into bulk, which of
itself means complete capacity; no diff
Guilty about Queen Bee and the swarm
once formed, finds itself impelled to action,
as with one heart and one mind. Singular,
in the case of human swarms, with what
perfection of unanimity andquasi-religious
conviction the stupidest absurdities can be
received as axioms of Euclid, nay as arti
cles Of faith, which you are not only to be-
lieve unless malignanty insane, but are
(if you have any honor or morality to
push into practice, and guam prinum see
done, if your soul would live Divine
commandment 10 cote ("Manhood Suf-
frage Horsehood Doghood, ditto not
vet treated of; universal "glorious liber-
typ Ito Sons Of the Devil in oVerwhel-
ming majority, as would appear; count of
Heads the God-appointed way in this uni
verse, all other ways Devil-appointed in
one brief word, which includes whatever of
palpable incredibility and delirious alb
surdity, universally believed, can be ut
tered or imagined, on these points, the
equality of men," any man equal to any
other Quashee Niger to Socrates or
Judas Iscariot to Jesus
Christ; and Bedlam and Gehenna equal to
the New jerusalem, shall we say If these
things are taken up, not only as axioms of
Euclid, but as articles of religion burning
to be put in practice for the salvation of
the world think you viii admit that
Sn0Tmery plays wonderful part in the
heads of poor Mankind and that very
considerable results are likely to follow
from it in our day
RESULT IN AMERICA.
BY far the notablest result of the
S,narmsrU, in these times, is that OF the
late American War, with settlement of
the Niger Question for result Essen
tally the Niger Question was one Of
the smallest; and in itself did not much
concern mankind in the present time of
and hurries One always rather
likes the Niger; evidently poor block
head with good dispositions, affections, at
tachments-w a turn for Niger Mello-
dies, and the like; he is the only Savage Of
all the colored races that doesn't die out
on sight Of the White Man; bat can actu-
ally live beside him, and work and increase
and be merry. The Almighty Maker has
appointed him to be Servant Under
penalty Of Heavens curse, neither party
to this pre-appointment shall neglect or
misdo his duties therein; and 1t is certain
Though "a vet widely unknown, Servant
ship on the nomddic principle, at the rate
of 40 many shillings per day, cannot be
ether than misdone. The whole world
rises and shriels against You, on hearing
OF such thing yet the whole world, lis
tening 10 the cool Sheffield disclosures Of
rufieniaq, and tae market-rates of murder
in that singular sheffield Assassination
Company Limited)," feels its hair rising
on end 10 little purpose hitherto; being
without even a gallows to make response !
Iheliool Of a world listens, year after year
Tor above generation back, 10 disastrous
sirikes,, 'merciless iockouts," and other de-
tails OF the nomadic scheme of serVitude
nay, As becomiBgly thoroughly disquieted
about its own too lofty minded fuukies,
mutinous maid servants lending, too often,
as distressed needle-women I" thirty
thousand Of these latter now on the pave-
ments of London), and the kindred phe
nomena on every hand; but it VII be long
before the fool ola world opens its eyes TO
the taproot Of all that-to the frantic no.
lion. in short, that stewardship and mas
tership, on the nomsdic principle, was ever,
or will ever be, except for brief periods,
possible among human creatures. Poor
souls, and when they have discovered II,