The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-03-27
OPEN THE GATES.
Sermon by Rev. T. Dewitt Ia.
mage, D. D.

mage, D. D.
&c Makes Plea for the Admission OF
the Immigrxnt-How to Make the For
eigners Good American Citizens
A Human Wall OF Defense.
The subject of DR.. Talmage's recent ser
mon at the Brooklyn Tabernacle was. Shall
America be Reserved for Americans" anc
his text, Acts xvii &c: "Aud hath made ot
one blood all nations" That IS, if for some
reason general phlebotomy were ordered,
and standing in a row were an American,
an Englishman, a Scotchman and an Irish
man, Frenchman, a German. a Norwegian,
an Icelan6er, . Spaniard, an Italian, Rus
sian and Representatives Of other nationali-
ties barred their right arm and lancet were
struck into it, the blood let cut would have
the same characteristics, for it would be
red, complex, fbrine, globuline, chlorine, and
containing sulphuric acid, potassium, phos-
phate Of masnesia and so on. and Harvey and
Sir Ashley Cooper, and Richardson and zim-
norman, and Brown-SeQuard, and all the sci
entifc doctors, allopathic, homeopathic, hy-
dropathic, and electic, would agree with
Paul as, standing on Mars Hill. his pulpit a
ridge of limestone rock fifty feet high and
among the p,oudest and most exclusive and
undemocratic people OF the earth hccrashed
into all their preiudices by declaring in the
words Of my text that God had made ''ot
one blood all nations" The countenance Of
the five races Of the human family may be
different as q result Of climate or education,
or habits, and the Malay will have the pro-
jecting upper jaw, and the Caucasian the
oval face and small mouth, and the Ethio-
plan the retreating forehead and large lip,
and the Mongolian the fat face OF olive hue
and the American the copper colored COM
plexion, but the blood is the same and iudi-
Gates that they all had one origin and that
Adam and Eve were their ancestor and an
cestress.
think God built this American continent
and organiy-' this United States republic
to demonstrate the stupendous idea OF the
text. A man in Persia will always remain
a Persian, man in Switzerland will always
remain Swiss man in Austria will always
remain ao Austrian, but eli foreign nationali
ties coming to America We're intended to be
Americans. This land is the chemical lab
oratory where the foreign bloods are to be
iaextricably mixed up and race preiudices
and race antipathies are to perish, and this
sermon is an axe by which I hope to
help kill them. 1t is not hard for me
to preach such sermon, because, although
my ancestors came to this country about
two hundred and fifty years ago, some Of
them came from Wales and some from
Scotland and some from Holland and some
from other lands, and I am mixture Of so
many nationalit!es that feel at home with
people from under every sky and have
right to call them blood relations. There
are madcaps and patriotic lunatics in this
country who are ever and anon crying out,
america for Americans" Down with the
Germans, Down with the Irish! Down
with the jews Dorrr- With, eft7 Ctrstrve~i
are in some directions the popular cries, all
Of which vociferations would drown out
by the full organ of my text, while pull
out the stops and put my foot on the pedal
that will open the loudeSt pipes, and run my
fingers over all the four banks Of ivory keys,
PLAYING the chant, 9God hath made OF one
blood all nations"
There is not FIVE men in this audience, nor
five men in any audience to-day in America
except it be on an Indian reservation, who
were not descended from foreigners If you
20 far enough back. The only native
Americans are the Modocs, the Shawnees,
the Chippewas, the Cherokees, the Chicka-
saws, the Seminoles, and such Ike. II the
principle, America only for Americans be
carried out, then you and have no right to
be here and we had better charter all the
steamers, and clippers, and men-of-war, and
yachts and sloops, and get out OF this coun-
try as quick as possible. The Pilgrim
Fathers were all immigrants, the Huguencts
all immigrants. The cradle Of most every
one Of our families was rocked on the bank
OF the Clyde or the Rhine or the Shan
non, or the Seine, or the Toer.
Had the watohword America for Ameri-
cans'' been an early and successful
cry, where now stang our cities would have
stood Indian wigwams, and canoes instead
Of steamers would have tracked the Hudson
and the Connecticut; and, instead Of the
Mississippi being the main artery OF the
continent it would have been only a trough
for deer and antelope and wild pigeons to
drink out of. What makes the cry Of
america for Americans" the more absurd
and the more inhuman is that some in this
country who themselves arrived here IN
their boyhood, or arrived here only one or
two generations back are joining in the
cry. Escaped from foreign despotish.
themselves they say: Shut the door OF
escape for others" Getting themselves on
our shores in life boat from the ship
wreck saying, haul the boat on the beach
and let the rest of the passengers go to the
bottom, Men who have yet on them
Scotch, or German, or English or Irish
brosue CRYING out, America for Amerl-
causI What if the native Eabitants OF
Heaven, mean the angels, the cheru5im,
the seraphin, born there. should stand in
the gate and when they see Us coming up at
the last should say: "Go back! Heaven
for the Eeaven;aas!"
or course we 90 we'll not to allow forcing
nations to make this country a convlct
colony. We would have wall built as hlgc
as heaven and as deep as hell against foreign
thieves, pickpockets aud Anarchists. We
would cot let them wipe their feet on the
mat at the outside door of Castle Garden
II England or Russia or Germany or Francs
send here their desperadoes TO get clear cs
them, we would have these desperadoes
sent back in chains to the places where
they came from. Wewill rot have Amers-a
become the dumping place for foreign
vasabondism But you build up wall
st the Narrows before New York harbor,
or at the Golden Gate before Sar Fran
cisco, and FORBID the coming Of the indus
trious and hard working and honest popu!a-
tions of other lands who want to breathe
the air Of our free institutions and geS
opportunity for better livelihood, and 1t 4
only a question OF time when God wiz
tumble that wall fat on our own heads Wlts
the red-hot thunderbo.t Of His omnipoten:
indicnatinn Sou are a father and you