The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-03-21

plexion, but the blood roo .'- t-
Gates that they all had psi t
Adam and Eve were their ancestor ana an
cestress.
think God built this American continent
and organized this United States Republic
to demonstrate the stupendous idea of the
text. A man in Persia will always remain
a Persian, a man in Switzerland will always
remain a Swiss, a man in Austria will
always remain an Austrian, bu. all
foreign nationalties coming TO Amer
lea were intended to be Americans
This land is the chemical laboratory where
foreign hloods are to be inextricably mixed
up and race preludices ana race antipathies
are to perish, and this sermon is an ak by
which | hope to kill them. 1t is not hard for
me to preach such a sermon, because, al
though 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
am mixture of so many nationalites that
l feel at home with people from under
every sky and have a right to call
them blood relations There are mad
caps and patriotic lunatics in this country
who are ever and anon crying out: Amer
lea for Americans" Down with the Ger
mans! Down with the Irish! Down with the
Jewsl Down with the Chinesel are in some
directions the popular cries, all of which
vociferations l would drown out by
the full organ of my text, while l 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: "God hath made of one
blood all nations"
There are not five men in this audience,
nor five men in any audience to-day in
America except it be on an Indian reserva-
ton, who were not descended from foreigners
if you go far enough back. The only native
Americans ara the Modocs, the Shawnees
the Chippewas, the Cherokees, the Chicka
saws, the Seminoles and such like If 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 country
as quick as possible. The Pilgrim Fathers
were all immigrants, the Huguenots all i'm
migrants The cradle of most every one OF
our families was rocked on the bank Of the
Clyde or the Rhine Or the Shannon
Or the Seine or the Tiber Had the
watchword America for Americans
been an early and successful cry,
where now stand 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 o. VI Rat nk lies 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 despotisms
themselves they say: Shut the
door of escape for others" Getting them
selves on our shores in life boat from the
shipwreck saying: Haul the boat on the
beach and let the rest of the passengers go to
the bottom! Men who have yet on them a
Scotch or German or English or Irish brogue
crying out, America. for Americans, Whatif
the native inhabitants of Heaven, Imean the
angels, the cherubim the seraphim born
there, should stand in the gate and when
they see lis coming up at the last should say:
$50 backl Heaven for the Heaveniansl'
OF course we do well not TO allow foreign
nations to make this country convict colony.
We would have a wall built as high as heaven
and as deep as hell against foreign thieves,
pickpockets and anarchists. We would not
let them wipe their feet on the mat OF the
outside door of Castle Garden. If England or
Russia or Germany or France send here
their desperadoeS TO get clear Of
them, we would have these DIES
to the places where they came from
we Will not nave America become the
dumping place for foreign vagabond.
ism. But you build up a wall at the
Narrows before New York harbor, or at
the Golden Gate before San Francisco, and
forbid the coming Of the industrious and
hard working and honest populations of
air of our free institutions and get OPP.
portunity for better livelihood, and
It is only a question of time when
God will tumble that wall fiat on our
own heads with the red hot thunder
bolts of His omnipotent indignation.
You are father and you have five children.
The parlor is the best room IN your house.
Your son Philip says to the other four chill
dren; Nov, John, you live in the small
room in the end of the hall and stay there
George, you live in the garrett and
stay there; Mary, you live in the cellar and
stay there; Fannie, you live in the kitchen
and stay there. l. Philip, will take the par
on the wall l like the lambrequuins a,
the windows. I like the Administer OF
the floor. Now, /, Philip, propose to occupy
this parlor and l command you to stay
out. The parlor only for Philippians, You
the father, hear of this arrangement anc
what will you do? Ytu will get red in the facs
and say: John, come out of that small
down out of the garrett; Mary, come up from
the cellar; Fannie, come out of the kitchen
and go into the paror or anywhere yol
choose; and, Philip, for your greediness ant
unbrotherly behavior, ] put you for two
hours in the dark closet under tn,
stairs" God is the Father of the human
race. He has at least Eve sons. Nortl
American. South American European
an Asiatic and an African. The Nortl
American shifts the breeze and he says to hi
four brothers and sisters. let the SoNtl
mar inan CTS in, Inn r.
European stay in Europe, let thu Asatic stay
in Asia. let the African stay in Africa; bu
| America is for me. / think it is the pario
| of the whoe earth. | like its carpets o
grass aad its upholstery of the from
| window, namely the l'nerican sunrise
nd the upholstery OF the back window
namely the American sunset. Now 1 wan
you all to stay out and keep to your places.
| am sure the Father of the whole human rae
would hear of it and chastisement would
come, and, whether by, earthquake or Zoo
or drought or heaven darkening swarms o
locust aud grasshopper or destroying ange
of pestilence, God would rebuke our selfish
ness as a nation and say to the four wind
of heaven: "This world is my house and tn
| North American is no more my Child than j
the South American and the European
and the Asiatic AMI the African And
built this world for all thu children, AM
the parlor is theirs and all is theirs Fo.
let me say, whether We will or not tn
population of other lands will com
here. There are harbors all the way iron
Baffin's Bay to Galveston, and if you shu
fifty gates there will be other gates un
guarded And il you forbid for
eigners from coming on the steamer
they will take sailing vessels. An
| ii You forbid them coming on saiin
YES, els they will come in boats An
If you will not let them come in beats he
will come on RATS Aud if you will not a.
lnw wharfage to the raft t5ev will leave
outside Sandy Hook and swim for fire.
America. Stop them. You might as well pas
law forbidding a swarm of summer bee
from lighting on the clover top or pass a Ia,
forbidding the tides of the Atlantic to ris
when the moon puts under it silver grsp
ping hooks, or a law that the MONDAY SUI
should not irradiate the atmosphere The
nave come They are coming now The
will come. And if l had a voice lou
enough to be heard across the seas
would put it to the utmost tension and cry
Let them GOMEZ You stingy, selfish, shris e,et
up, blasted souls who sit before your silye
dinner plate piled up with breast of roas
turkey incarnadinei with cranberry, you
fork full and your mouth full and crammin
down the superabundance till your digestiy
organs are terrorized, let the millions OF you
fellow-men have at least the wishing bone.
But some Of this cry, America for Ameri