The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-03-15
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or and deeper. till we get as far down as
the center OF the earth and half way to
China, but no further, lest it poison those
living on the other side the earth. Then
into this grave les down the accursea car
cass Of race prejudice and throw on It all
the mean things that have ever been said
and written between Jew and Gentileg be-
tween Turk and Russian, between En-
glish and French, between Monaghan ana
auti-Mongolian, between black and Whlte,
and put up over that grave for tombstone
some scorched and jagged chunk OF scorla9
spit out by some volcanic eruption ana
chisel on it for epitaph: "Here lies the
carcass of one who cursed the world.
Aged near six thousand years. Departed
this life for the perdition from whence Il
came. No peace to its ashesln
Now, in view Of this subject, have two
point-bla words to utter, one suggest.
ing what foreigners ought to do for rs,
and the other what we ought to do for
foreigners. First, to foreigners: Lay aside
all apologetic air and realize you have as
much right as any man who was not only
himself born here, but his father and bis
grandfather and great grandfather before
him. Are you an Englishman? Though
during the revolutionary war your fathers
treated our fathers roughly, England
has more than atoned for that by
giving to this country at least two
denominations of Christians, the Church
of England and the Methodist Church
Witness the magnificent liturgy of the one
and the Wesleyan hallelujahs of the 9th
er. And who shall ever pay England Tor
what Shakespeare and John Milton and
Wadsworth and thousand others have
done for America? Are you ScotchmanP
Thanks for John Knox's Presbytefianisfni
the balance wheel of all other denomina-
/ tions. And how shall Americans ever
pay your native land for what. Thomas
| Chalmers and Mcintosh and Robert
Burns and Christopher North and Robert
McCheyne and Candlish and Guthrie hoye
| done for Americans?
Are YOU a Frenchman? We can not
forget your Lafayette, who, in the NEST
desperate time of our American revOiu-
1 ton, New York surrendered and our ar
mics flying IN retreat, ,espoused our caus5e,
| and at Brandywine and Monmouth, apd
| yorktown put all America under eternal
/ obligation. And we can not forget the
/ coming to the rescue Of our fathers
Rochambeau and his French feet with
| six thousand armed men. Are you a
| Germans We have not forgotten tAe
eleven ounds through which your Baron
de Kalb poured out his life blood at the
head of the Maryland and Delaware troops
| in the disastrous battle at Camden, and
after we have named our streets and our
cities and counties after him we have
not PAID tithe OF what we owe Ger
many for his valor and self sacrifice.
And what about Martin Luther, the giant
German whomade way for religious lib
erty for all lands and ages2 Are you
Polander? How can we forget your brill
liant Count Pulaski, whose bones were laid
in Savannah river after a mortal wound
gotten while in the stirrups Of one Of tho
hercest cavalry charges of the American
revolution? But with no time to particu
larize, say: "All hail to the men and
women of other lands who come here with
} honest purposei" Renounce all obliga-
ton to foreign despots. Take the oath OF
American allegiance. Get out your nat
uralization papers. Don't talk against
our institutions, for the fact that you
came here and stay shows that you
!, like ours better than any other.
If you don't like them there are
steamers going out of our ports almost
every day, and the fare is cheap, and, lest
you should be detained for parting ciYili-
ties, bid you goodbye now. But If you
like it here, then charge you, at the ball
lOt-box, in legislative hall, in churches
and everywhere be out and-o6t AmeTi-
cans. Do not try to establish here tho
loose foreign Sabbaths or transcendent-
alism spun into religion of mush and
moonshine, or foreign libertinism or that
condensation of all thievery, scoundrel-
ism, lust, murder and perdition, which in
Russia is called Nihilism, and in France
called Communism, and in America
called Anarchism. Unite with us in maxi
ing by the grace Of God the fifteen million
square miles of America on both sides the
Isthmus Of Panama the paradise Of virtue
and religion.
My other word suggests what Amer
leans ought to do for foreigners. BY all
possible means explain to them our in
stitutions. Coming here, the vast
jority OF them know about as much con.
cerning Republican or Democratic form
of government as you in the United STATES
know about politics in Denmark, or France
or Italy, or Switzerland, namely, nothing
Explain to them that liberty in this coun-
try means liberty to do right, but not lib
erty to do wrong. Never In their pres
ence say any thing against their native
land, for, no matter how much they may
have been oppressed there, in that native
land there are sacred places, cabins or
mansions, around whose doors they
played, and perhaps somewhere There is
| grave into which they would like, when
1ife's tolls are over, to be let down, for IL
Is mothers grave, and Il would be like
going again into the loving arms that FIRST
held them and againstthe bosom that first
pillowed them. Myl my how low down
| a human must have descended 20 have no
regard for the place whore his cradle was
, rocked. Don't mock their brogue or their
stumbling attempts at the hardest Of all
languages to learn, namely the English
language I warrant that they speak En-
glish as well as you could talk Scandinar
Vien.
Rejoice as Christian patriots that in
stead Of being an element Of weakness
the foreign people, thoroughly evan
| geIized will be our mightiest defense
against all the world. The Congress OF
the United States recently ordered built
, new forts ali up and down our American
coasts, and new navy is about 70 be proc
jected. But let me say that 300 100000
expended in coast defense Will not be 50
mighty as q vast foreign population live
ing in America. With hundreds or thou
! sands OF Germans in New York. GerA
many would az soon think. of bomb
, shellfng Berlin as attacking us. With
hundreds of thousands Of French
: men in New York, France would a.
soon think Of firing on Paris With huns
dreds Of thousands Of Engiishnen tn'hew
: York. England would as SOON think oc de-
stroying London. The mlghtiest DEFENSE
against European nations Is wall or
Furoueaps reaching up and down the
Arae1-fcan Continent--a wall Of heads aud
! iaearts copsecrated 70 free government,
; a buIvark OF foreign humanity heavgd
, M ali along our shores, reinforced by
I | the Atlantic ocean armed as it ~
with tempests and Caribbean whirl-
I winds and giant pllo"s ready TO-
afn0 mountains from their catapault, we
I need Al a nation fear no one In the uni
, verse but God, and IL found Ia his service
/ we need not fear him. AS six hundred
{ rof7liop peopIe win set sit down at our
I National table, LET GJd preside. To him
: | he dedicated the metal of our mines, the
!. st,aaves of our harvest-helds, the fruits of
= of,r orchards, the fabrics Of our Inauufacf-
; ories. the telescopes Of our observatorieg,
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