Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-03-13

tioualitIes coming to this land the opeosite'
viii all the while be aft ,nced, aud Frenc'
snd German will unite and that will stor
sll the quarrel between them, and QUE child
Lhev will call Alsace and the other Lorraine
And hot blooded Spaniard will unite with
,ooi blooded Polaoder and romantic I5aliar
7irh matter of fact Norwegian, and hun
dred and fifty years from now the race oc
cupying this land will be in stature, in pnr-
'ty of complexion, in liquidity of eye. IT.
gracefulness of poise, in dome-liks brow, in
taste, In intelligence and in murals so ia
7head of anything now known on either
side the seas that this last quarter of the
nineteenth century will seem to them Fkr
the Dark Ages. Oh, then how they will
legislate and bargain and pray and preach
aud govern! This is the land where by tht.
iningling ofraces the race prejudice ia TO get
its death blow. How heaven feels about it
we may conclude from the fact that Christ,
the Jew, aud descended from Jewess, nev
ertheless provided a religion for all races,
And that Paul. though Jew, became the
chief apostle of the Gentiles, and that re
Gently God has allowed to burst in sp'endor
upon the attention of the world Hirsch, the
Jew, who after giving ten million dollars to
CHRISTIAN CHURCHES aud hospitals, has called
a committee of nations and furnished them
with forty million dollars for schS"ls to
elevate his rsee in France aud Germany and
Russia to higher intelligence aud abolish, ~
ne says, the prejudiees against their race,
hese fifty million dollars not given in !ssr
will and Testament ard ut q tims when q
man must leave his morsy aoyhnw, bnt by
sieus-ioa a. fifsy-6rs years gf ags aud in
coed heal b, u@teriy eclps!ng all beaevo
I
confess there was time wine. entertain
ed race prejudice, but, thanks to God. that
pFejuuice bas gone, and if sat in church
aud ON side of ma there was a b'acs msn
and on the other side of me was an IGdian
and before me was Chinaman and behind
ne Turk, would be- az happy as I an
nos standing in the presence of this brilliant
au5iepce, and am as happy now "a | eau
be and live. Tne sooner ~e get this corpse
IF race prejudice buried, the healthier viii
bs our American atmosphere. Let each one
fetch spade and let US dig its grave clear
on down deeper and deeper Till we get as
far down "a the centre of the earth and
half way to China, but no further lest i
poison those living on the other side the
earth. Then inro this grave let dtwn the
carcass OF race prejudice and
throw on it all the mean things that have
even been said and written between jew
aud GENTLE. between Turk and Russian
between English and French, between
Mougolan aud anti MDugolian, between
black aud white, and put up over that grave
for tombstone some scOrched and Jagged
chunk of scorin spit out by some volcanic
eruption and chisel on it for epitaph:
Here lies the carcass of one who cursed
the world. Aged, near elk thousand years.
Departed this life f'r the perdition from
il came. No peace to it's ashesr'
Nov, in view of this subj sct, have two
point-bank words to utter, one suggesting
what foreigners ought to dn for Us. aud the
other what we ought to do for foreigners.
First, to foreigners. Lay aside all apollo
geJic air and realise you have as much right
as any man who was not only himself born
hsye, bu5 h;s farher and his grandfather
aud great grandfather before him. Are
you an Epglishman? Though during the
war your fathers treated our
fathers roughiy. England has more than
atnned for chat by giving To this country
at-leas5 tWa denominations -Chr,sssins,
5he Church Of England and the Methodist
Chu ch. Witness ths magnificent liturgy of
,he one aud the Wesleyan hsllelujahs of
,be other. And who shall ever pay Eng
and for what Shakspere and John Milton
md Wordsworth aud thonsaod other
authors have do"e for America? Are you
i Ssotchman? Thanks for John Knox's |
Presby terianism: the balance wheel of sI
'ther denominations. And how shall |
Americans ever pay your native land for
Y hat Thomas Chalmers and Macintosh and |
Robert B. B.sras and Christopher North and |
iubert McCheyna and Csndlsh and Gdth. |
ie have doue for Americana Are you |
: senohman? We canuot forget your La
ayette, who in the most desperate time of
,ur American revolution, Neg York sur.
endered and our armies flying in retreat
'spoused our cause and at Brandywine and |
Monmouth aud Yorktown put all America
inder eternal obligation. Add We cannot |
orget the coming to the rescue of our
ashers Rochambeau and bis French fiest |
With SIX Thousand armed men. Are you a
3ermau? We have not forgottsu The eleven
III ough vhich your Baron De Kalb
)oursd cut his lite blond a. the head of the
Maryland aud Delaware troops in the
disastrous battle at Camden, and after
Va have named our stress aud
our cities aud COUNTIES after him We
have not paid tithe of what we owe Gar
nany for hIs vaior aud self-sacr,fiee AID
wnat about Lu5ner, the giant German, " 10
made way fpr reii {ious liberty for ali lands
aa1 ages? Are yon Pviaudet? Huw CAR
We fyrget your btsli.aut CJunt Pui&-ki,
whose bones were ia;d in savannah river
after mortal souGd gotten while in the
eti1rups of Que of the iercest cavalry
Gu ,rges OF the American RevoluuOn? Bat
with no time to particuiarise | say. ''Aii
hail to- 5he men aud women of other lands
who Come here with nouest purposeP'
Rsuounce all obligation To foreign despOts.
Taka tue oath of American aiiag iance. Get
ouS your DaturalisatioD papers. Don't
talk against our institutions, for the fact
that you came here aud say shows that You
like Ours better than any other. if yon
dan'S like them there are steamers goiug
out of our potts almost every day, and the
fare is cheap aud. lest you should be de-
tanned Tor parting c,viIitle', bid you good
by now But If you like 1T here, then |
charge you, at the ballot-bOx, in legisla-
tive hail. in churches and every De
out and out Americans. Do not try to es
tabl'sh hese the loose foreign Sabbaths or
trausce euden tal,sn spuu iulo religion of
mnsh and moonshine, or foreign libertinism
OR that c,ndensatiou of all thievery, scoun
dreisn,, lust, murder and perdition which
in Russia is called NihIlism aud ia France
called Communism and in America called
Anarchism. Unite with us in making by
the grace Of God the fifteen milton square
miles OF America on bJJh siGes the lsthmus
of Psnama the paradise of virtue and re-
Ii iginn.
My other word suggests what Americsns
ought to do for foreisuers. By all possible
means explain to them our institutions.
Coming here, the vast majority of them
know abput as much concerning publican
or democratic form of government as you
10 th5 United States know about the pOitlcs
of Denmark or France or Ita'y or Switzer
laud-namely, nothing. Explain to them
th at liberty in this country means liberty
to do right, but nos liberty TO do wrong
Never III their presence say anything
against their native land, for, no matter
how much tbsy may have osen oppressed
there, III that native land there are sacred
places, C sbins Or mansions, around whose
dcors they played. and perhaps some where
there is grave into which they would like,
when lite's tolls are o O1er, to be let down,
for it is mothers grave, and it would be