The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1869-11-17
A Crazy People.
[rrom the Shelby tKy.i sentinel.l

IRON tne sheioy thy.l SenuneLI
Nations, like individuals, sometimes go mad.
The North has gone mad.
Crazy nations, like crazy men, often COM
init suicide The North is cutting her own
throat. Her madness was caused by u inalig-
nant disease called fanaticism-a disease that
first drives its victims TO kind Of bloodthirsty
frenzy in which it commits the widest crimes,
and then makes il kill itself.
Listen to history-it is philosophy taught
by example.
The Jews killed the Savior and prosecuted
his disciples, because they would not think
like them. And the Jews have suffered Is
centuries for 1t.
Christians tried to convert Mohammedans
by robbing and numbering them, and two mil
lions of those Christians rotted on the sands
of the East.
The French Republic, fanatical in its zeal Of
liberty, was the cause of the massacre of all
the French in st. Domingo by negroes.
The Spanish Inquistion was established to
kill infidel Moors, but in few years 1t WAS
staying thousands of orthodox Spaniards.
Fanaticism drove these people mad, and
then made them commit suicide.
Now the North is crazy, and that Is the rea-
son why she spurns the advice of 6,OOO years
of human experience. She will commit sui
eide too Thurlow Weed SAWS she il crazy,
Greeley proclaims it, and begs them to stop.
But fanaticism don't stop till it dies; the rev.
olution will run its course.
But It's certain that they are crnzy!
The English during the Commonwealth,
became so Disguised with Puritan intolerance,
their nasal twang, and hypocritical psalm
singing, that they sent To Charles H., prefer
ing stable despOtism to n crazy Common
wealth. Then our Northern ancestors crossed
the Atlantic to rob Indians, whip Baptists,
and burn Quakers.
They hung blue lights.
They stole negroes from Africa and their
neighbors.
They preached disunion.
They dashed men for not going to church.
for chewing tobacco, and for kissing their wives
on Sunday.
They burned Catholic converts.
They hatched out federalism, ncgroism,
Mormonism, Know Nothingism. free-loveism.
wooden-nutmegism, and every other ism that
has been heard Of in this country.
They were cTaZy-that is the reason they
Matched out 40 many isms,
Their fanaticism has converted Congress
into lunatic asylum. II is raging in the
press, il poisOns our schools, colleges and lit
crature. II rants and howls in degraded
and prostituted pulpit. The people are mad.
The ways of Providence strange.
The darkest hour is Just before day, and that
hour is nov. Fanaticism stabbed the South,
IL will soon stab itself and the murderer and
victim will soon fill the same grave.
The crisis is drawing near.
we now say the suffering Sputl, we VIII
soon sny the Suffering North" Why? Be
cause Radicnlism has thrown off the mask
and is now openly and sc0rnfnlly tearing the
Constitution to pieces aud trnmpling 1t under
unhaowed feet. II didn't matter much il
the sacred charter of Southern State was de.
stroyed-but the Constitution is the shield o
the States; il il is destroyed, the rights and lib
critics OF the North as well as the South ar,
gone. All fall when il falls. This is the las
hair; il will break the Northern camel's back
Fanatcism is coming home to roost.
The instinct Of self-prescryation will com.
pei the common sense of the North to over
throw Radicalism, and then il will bite itse
to death like poisoned rat in hole.
Fanaticism is its own executioner.