The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-03-31
THE ENTERPRISE.
IWEETwATER THURSDAY, MAR. 81, 1910
81 Tho election is over, and the 70.


t- The election is over, and the re-
turns. from Middle and West Tennessee,
90 far, indicate the ratification of tho New
Constitution and the success of the Con-
sentative ticket in nearly every county,
East Tennessee will probably give a small
majority for the old constitution. While
thiS may be the case in this part of the State
We have no fears but hat when the vote
Il counted throughout the State, the New
Constitution will receive u majority of
from 5000 to 1000, We now feel that
NO have accomplished our ends, and have
become free and Independent citizens of
Tennessee and of the United States; let US
60 to work and use every effort possible
to build up and encourage home i%nstitu-
tiOns, build up the agricultural interests
Of our State, put down lawlessness and
thereby convince the powers that be that
we desire peace, and if let alone by that
power, the people of Tennessee, will rise
to that position they once occupied, and
peace,prOsperity and happiness will abound
throughout the State. Then let us 60
forward and do our duty as good citizens,
and we need have no fears as to the re-
suit. 1t is plainly seen that all the eff
forts of Stokes, Maynard, Brownlow, But
Ter and others have made to Territorial
iEe Tennessee, have availed nothing. All
the reports of Ku Klux outrages, murders,
riots, &C., have been branded as the black
est lies that ever was. uttered by human
beings, and that by the best men OF the
State.
Knowing, as we do, that the efforts of
this set of infamous men can accomplish
nothing, why should We have any fears Of
Tennessee being placed under military
rule Away with such an idea! Let it
be the least of our thoughts =! The domi-
nant party at Washington dare not inaug-
rate a state of affairs which will ~inundate
the country with financial crashes, with
unsettled commercial relations, with eve
~ element ofdisturbance and bankruptcy.
"If the United States would pay the ma
tional debt, where is the money to come
from but from that source which has, in
the past, so bountifully, and almost ex-
elusively furnished the Revenue. We
mean the South. Northern capitalists are
as anxious as ever to avoid even a proper.
tional share of the public burden"
Hard times in money matters is upon
US, and the people of the North, not from
. 'mOtive of clemency or justice toward
the South, but from q motive of self pre-.
servation will refuse to support such red
hot scoundrelisms as Ben. Butler displays
on the subject of reconstruction"
Our country is already rapidly recuper.
sting. She is growing strong in resources
Of almost every description. The South.
if let alone, will pay her portion of the
taxes with less ainching than the greedy
mcnBOlizing North.
Tennessceans Away with your fears Of
Our State being Territorialized. The
great mass of the Radicals will take a
practical view of the necessity of keeping
she peace, and they will not be cajolod in
TO the support of those of their leaders
who so loudly call for q state Of things
which would result in their financial ruin.
Stokes, Maynard, Brownlow, Butler and
other Radical leaders, who have been and
are now endeavoring to ruin and degrade
Tennessees noble, brave and patriotic sons.
will reap their reward, in due season.
They are now being measured by their
conduct and will inevitably die a political
death from which they can never be rosur.
rected. Others will rise up and graphic
unembarrassed and even-isted, with the
scions of blood and gold bearing bonds, il
the great struggle of life for honor, and
place, and wealth. Sectional and elias.
Legislation will inevitably parch to deatl
in the blaze of enlightened civilization
and be remembered in history alone, as q
remarkable instance of the influence o.
polished heathenism lingering tenaciously
in the councils of the nineteenth century