The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1889-03-08
NO KNOW OTHINGISM.
DR.. TALMAcE TALKS ABOUT THE
CRY, america FOR AMERICANS"

He Says It II Absurd. Contrary to tn
Spirit Of American Institutions. AM
Upjust-who Are Americans?-A dvan
tages Of the Influx OF Nations.
BROOKLYN, March 3.-Dr. Talmagt
preached in the Brooklyn Tabernacle
this morning on the subject, "Shal
America be reserved for Americans9'
As his sermons are now translated II
every language of Europe and many
languages of Asia, in his audiences
may be seen persons from many diff
ferent nations. After an exposition
of the scripture he gave out the hymn
Arm of the Lord, awakel awakel
Put on thy strength, the nations shake!
Text, Acts xvii, 26: "And hath made
Of one blood all nations" That is, il
for some reason general phlebotomy
were ordered, and standing in a row
were an American, an Englishman, q
Scotchman and an Irishman, French.
man, German, Norwegian, an Ice
lander, Spaniard, an Italian, a Rus.
sian and representatives Of all
other nationalities barred their right
arm and lancet were struck into
it, the blood let out would have the
same characteristics, for it would
be red, complex, fibrine, globu-
line, chlorine and containing sui
phuric 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, allopa-
thic, homeopathic, hydropathic and
eclectic, would agree with Paul as,
standing on Mars Hill, his pulpit a
ridge of limestone rock fifty feet high
and among the proudest and most ex-
elusive and undemocratic people of
the earth he crashed into all their pre-
JUDGES by declaring in the words Of
my text that God had made 'of one
blood all nations" The countenance
Of the Eve races of the human family
may be different as result of climate
or education or habits, and the Malay
will have the projecting upper jaw,
and the Caucasian the oval face and
small mouth, and the Ethiopian the
retreating forehead and large lip, and
the Monaghan the fiat face Of olive
hue, and the American Indian the cop
per colored complexion, but the blood
is the same and indicates that they all
had one origin and that Adam and
Eve were their ancestor and ances-
tresS.
AMERICA is THE MIXING CALDRoN OF
NATIONS.
l think God built this American
continent and organized this United
States republic to demonstrate the stu
pendous idea of the text. A man in
Persia will always remain Persian,
q man in Switzerland will always re-
main Swiss, a man in Austria will
always remain an Austrian, but all
foreign nationalities coming to Amer
lea were intended to be Americans.
This land is the chemical laboratory
where foreign bloods are to be mex
tricably mixed up and race prejudices
and race antipathies are to perish, and
this sermon is an AK by which hope
to help kill them. It 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 l am a mixture of
SO many nationalities 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, America for Americans" Down
with the Germansl Down with the
Irish! Down with the Jewsl Down
with the Chinesel are in some direc-
tons the popular cries, all of which
vociferations l 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,
"God hath made Of one blood all
nations"
There are not five men in this au-
dience, nor five men in any audience
today in America except it be on an
Indian reservation, who were not de-
scended from foreigners if you go far
enough back. The only native Amer
leans are the Modocs, the Shawnees,
the Chippewas, the Cherokees, the
Chickasaws, 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 HUI
guenots all immigrants. The cradle
Of most every one of our fami-
lies 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 in
stead 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 trough for deer and
antelope and wild pigeons to drink
out of. What makes the cry of
America for Americans" the more
obc,,rd ond tho mora inhr,man is that