The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-04
The Subject, "Shall America Be
Saved for Americansq"
The Great Creator "Hath Made of
One Blood All Nations"
Our Continent Demonstrates the
Stupendous Idea of the Text.
This Land Is the Chemical Laboratory
Where Foreign Bioods Are to Be
Mixed Up, and Race Preju-
dices Arc to Perish.

preached in the Brooklyn Tabernacle this
morning on the subject 'Shall America
be Reserved for Americans2" As his SER
mons are now translated In every language
of Europe and many languages OF Asia, in
his audiences may be seen persons from
many different nations After an exposi-
ton OF the scripture no gave out the
hymn:
Arm Of the Lord, awakcl awakcl
Put on thy strength. the nations shake
Text Acts xvii, 20; "And hath made OF
one blood all nations" That Is, II for
some reason general phlebotomy were or.
dered, and standing in q row were an
American, Scotchman and an Irishman, "A
Frnchman, German, Norwegian, an
lcelander, spaniard, an Italian. Rus
sian, and representatives OF all other na-
tions, barred their right arm, and lancet
were stuck into Il, the blood let
out would have the same character
istics, for II would be red, complex,
tihrina. slohnline, CHLORINE and contain
ing sulphuric acid, potassium, phosphate
Of magnesia and so on. and Harvey and
Sir Ashley Cooper and Richardson and
Zimmerman and Brown-Sequard and all
the scientific doctors, allopathic, home
opathic, hydropathic and eclectic, would
agree with Paul rs, standing on Mars Hill,
his pulpit ridge OF limestone rock fifty
feet high aud among the proudest aud
most exclusive and undemocratIc people
Of the earth he crashed into all their pre-
iudiccs by declaring in the words Of my
text that God had made ''oi one blood all
nations.' The countenanco OF the five
races of the human family may be ditier.
ent m q result oi climate or education or
habits, and the Malay will have the pro-
jecting upper jaw, and the Caucasian the
oval lace and small mouth, aud the Ethio-
plan the rcircating forehead aud large lin,
aud the Monaghan the Hat face OF olive
hue, aud the American Iudian the copper
colorcd complexion, but the blood II the
same aud indicates that they all had one
origin aud that Adam and I've were their
ancestor aud anccstrssl.
think God buili this American CONT.
nent and Organized this United States re-
public TO demonsirals the stupendous idea
OF the text. A man In Persia will always
remain n Persian, man In Switzerland
will always remain Swiss, a man m Aus
tra will always remain nn Austrian, but
all foreign nationalitlcs coming b. America
were intended 10 be Americans. This land
Is the chemical laboratory where foreign
bloods arc 10 be inoxtricably mixed up
and race prcjudiccs and race antipathics
are to perish, and this sermon Is an AK by
which hope 90 help kill them. II IN not
harl for me TO preach such a sermon, be.
cause. although my ancestors came to this
cou,ry about 250 ycar ago, some Of them
came from Wales, and somc from Scot
land, aud some from Holland, and some
from other lands, aud aln mixture OF
10 many nationaities that I feel NJ homo
with people from under every sky and
have a right 10 call them blood relations
There are madcaps and patriotic lunaiics
In this country who are ever and anon cry.
ing out, America for Americans" Down
with the Germans Down with the lrishl
Down with the Jewi Down with the
Chincsel are In some directions tho pop.
ular cries. all Of which vOciierations 1
would drown out by the full organ Of my
text, while 1 pull out the stops and put
my foot on the pedal that will open the
loudesl pipes, and run my fingers over ali
| the tour banks Of ivory keya, playing the
chant, "God hath made Of one blood all
nations"
There are not Eve men In this audience,
nor five men In any audience today In
America, except II be on ma Indian rcscry-
alton, who wore not descended from Tor.
cigncrs. u you 20 far enough back. Tho
only native Americans au the Modocs, the
shawnccs, the Chippowas, the Cherokcos.
the Chickasaws, tho Scminolcs, and such
like. II the principle. America only for
Americans, be carried out. then you aud |
have no right 10 bo here. aud We had bet.
ter charter all the steamers aud elppars
aud mon-Oi-war and yachts aud sloops.
aud gct out OF this country ns quick A. pos.
sible. The Pilgrim Fathers were all i'm
migrants, the lluguonols al immigrants.
The cradle Of most every one Of our iami.
lies was rocked on the bank 0i the Clyde
or the Rhine or the shannon or the Seine
or the Tibcr. Had the walchword Amer.
lea for Americans" been an early and
successful cry. whore now stand our cities
would have stood Indian Vigwans, and
canoes instead Of slcauiur would have
tracked the Hudson aud thc Connecticut,
and, instead Of the Mississippi being the
main artery Of the continent, Il would
have been only trough ior deer and
antelope aud wild pigeons 10 driak
out Of. What makes the cry OF America
for the Americana thc morr absurd aud
the moro inhuman ~ that romc In this
country who Themselves rfriycd herc Ia
their boyhood or arrived hurc only one OF
two generations back are joining IN the cry.
Escaped from foreign dcspoiisn themselves
they say, "shut The dop Of escape iof
othcm" Getting themselves ON our
shores In a liicboat from the shipwrcck
saying, "lIaul the boa, on the beach aud
let the rest Of tho passenger go 10 the bot
toni" Men who have ycl on them 4
Scotch or German or English or Irish
brogue crying out "Amcricl iOr the Amer.
icansl" What II the native inhabitants ol
Heaven. | myn the angels, ihe cherubim,
The serapbim born them should s'and ~
the gate when they ecd ~ coming up al
the last should say, ECO back Heaven Tor
the IIcavcninnsl"
OF course we do well nol 10 allow ioreign
nations 10 make this country conyir'
colony We would have wall buiit 70
high ~ heaven and o. decp ~ hcll agains'
iorclgn thieves, pIckpockeis aud Anafcn'
itisr We would'not let thcm wipe thell
feet on the map Of the outside door q
Castle Garden. n England or Russia Of