The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-01-13
A Crazy People.
An exchange truthfully says nations,
like individuals, sometimes 60 mad;
The North has gone mad.

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like individuals, sometimes 60 mad:
The North has gone mad.
Crazy nations, like crazy men, often
commit suicide. The North is cutting her
own throat. Her madness was caused by
a malignant disease that first drives its
victim to a kind Of blood-thirsty frenzy,
in which it commits the widest crimes
and then makes it kill itself.
Listen to the histOry-it is philosophy
taught by example.
The Jews killed the Savior and perse-
cuted his disciples, because they would not
think like them. And the Jews have
suffered eighteen centuries for it.
Christians tried to convert Mahometans
by rObbing and numbering them, and two
millions of those Christians rotted on the
sands of the East.
The French Republic, fanatical in its
zeal of liberty, was the cause of the mas
sacre of all the French in st. Domingo by
negroes.
The Spanish inquisitiOn was established
to kill in6del Moors, but in a few years it
was Staying thousands of orthodox Span
iards.
Fanaticism drove those people mad,
and then made them commit suicide.
Now, the North is Crazy, and that is the
reason why she spurns the advice of six
thousand years of human experience.
She will commit suicide, too. Thurlow
Weed says she is crazy, Greedy prOclaims
it and begs them to stop. But fanaticism
don't stop till it dies; the revolution runs
its course.
But it is certain that they are crazy. I!
The English, during the Commonwealth,
became so disguised with puritan i%ntOler-
ance, their nasal twang and hypocritical
psalm-siuging, that they sent for Charles
III preferring a stable despotism to a crazy
Commonwcalth.-Then our Northern
ancestors crossed the Atlantic to rob In
dams, whip Baptists, and burn Quakers.
They hung blue lights.
They stole negroes from Africa, and
their ~noighbors.
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 Matched out federalism, negroism,
Mormonism, Know Ncthingism, free love-
ism, wooden n~utmegism, every other ism
that has ever been heard of in this country.
they were crazy-that is the reason they
Matched out so many isms.
Their fanaticism has converted Congress
into a lunatic asylum. 1t is raging in the
press, it poisOns u schools, colleges and
literature. 1t rants and bowls in a de-
graded and prostituted pulpit.-The peo-
pie are mad.
The ways of Providence are strange.
The darkest hour is just before day,
and that hour is now. Fanaticism stabbed
the South it will soon stab itself, and
murderer and victim will soon fill the same
grave.
The crisis is drawing near.
We now say the "Suffering South" we
will soon say the "Suffering North"
Why3 Because Radicalism has thrown
off the mask, and is now openly and scorn-
fully tearing the Constitution to pieces,
and trampling it under unhallowed feet.
1t didn't matter much if the sacred char
ter of Southern State was destroyed
but the Constitution is the shield of the
States it is destroyed and the rights and
liberties of the North, as the South, are
gone. All fall when it falls. This is the
last hair, and it will break the Northern
camel's back.
Fanaticism is coming home to roost.
The instinct of self-preservation will
compel the common sense of the North to
overthrow Radicalism, and then it will
bite itself to death like a poisoned rat in
a hole.
Fanaticism is its own executioner.