The Red Cloud chief., 1889-03-08
AMERICA FOR ALL
d.. Talma0e on tho Greatness Of
Our Republic.

= THIS Couatr Welroasss AL Good Nea-
No Eoselss Cossirts NJ Asarehisss
Wanted-SioOd kesult. From the
Vssos os Rsces Predicted
| In Q late sermon az BROOKLYN on the sub.
ject "Shsii America b. Reserved for
| Americana" Rev. L. Do it Talmage
took bis text from Acts 1viL Is: And
hath made OF one blood all nations" lie
said:
That ID. IL for some reason general phle-
botomy were ordered and standing ia Q row
were an American, an SnRli.hman, .
Scoechman and an lrishman, Q French.
man. . German. q Norwegian. an Ice
lander. . Spaniard, an Italian. . Russian
and representatives OF all other nationali.
ties barred their right arm and . lancet
were struck into il the blood let out would
have the same characteristics. for /, would
be red, complex. fibrine, globuline. chlorine
and containing s%ulphur!c acid. potassium,
phosphate o! maxnesia and so on. and
Harvey and Sir Ashley Cooper and Rich
srdson and z zimmerman and Brown
SeQuard and all the scientific doctors, aIlo-
pa,hic, homeopathic. h~ydIopathic and
eclectic, woald agree with Paul, as. stand.
ing on Mars hill. his pulpit q ridge Of
limestone rock fifty feet high and
among the pToudesi and most exclusive an /,
undemocratic people of the earth. he
crashed into all their prejudices by de-
clarinS in the words Of my text that God
had male 'of one blood all nations" The
cOuntenance Of the iive races Of the human
family may be different az a result Of
/ climate nr sA.1c~tf On, ar hslit. AMI IN.
MALAY will have the projecting jaw and
the Caucasian the oval face and small
mouth aud the Ethiopian the retreating
forehead and large lip and the Mongolian
the Nat face Of olive hue and the Ameri-
can Indian the copper.colored complexion.
but the blood is the same. and indicates
that they all bad one origin and that
Adam and Eve were their ancestor and
ancestrsss.
think God built this American con-
tinent and organized this United States
Republic to demonstrate the stupendou>
idea Of the text A man in Persia will nj.
ways remain . Persian, q man in S"itxer-
land will always remain . Swiss, q man
in Austria will always remain an Aus.
trian, tut all foreign n~ationalities coming
TO America were intended TO be Ameri-
CuuSs AusB 0uu - tuC ~
tory where foreign blOods are to be inextri.
cably mixed up and race ~prejudlces AMI
race a%ntipathies are TO perish, and this
sermon is an axe by which hope to help
kill them. 1t is not hard for one To preach
such a ermon because. although my an
cestOrs came to this country about two
hundred and fifty years ago. some Of them
came from Wales and some from Scotland
- z- Ul-- -. .. S~o,-,
other lands. and I am q mixture Of so many
n~atiouaiilies that l feel At home with pso-
pie from under every sky and have . right
to cali them blood relations. There are
madcaps and patriotic lunatics in this
country who are ever and anon trying
out, America for Americans" Down
with the Germans! Down with the Irish.
Down with the Jews! Down with the
Chinese! are in some directions the popu.
lar cries, all Of which vociferations ]
would drown out by the full organ Of nv
text, while l pull out the stops and put
my foot ON the pedal that will open the
loudsst pipes, md run my fingers over all
the four hanks Of ivory keys, playing the
chant God hath made Of "A blood all
natiOns."
There are not five men In this audience.
not five men in any audience to-day in
America except it be on IN Indian reser-
walton. who were not descended from for
eigners il you 20 far enough back. The
only native Americans are tbs Modocs,
the S~hawnees, the Chippewax. the Chero-
KEGS, the Chickasaws, the SeminOles and
such like. II the principle America only
for Americans be carried out, then you
and I . v nc right to Oe here and We had
better charter oil the steamers and clippers
and men.of.war and yachts aud sloops
and get out Of this country as quick a.
possible. The Pilgrim fathers were oil
immigrants. the Huguenots oil immigrants.
The cradle Of most every one Of our Fam.
lilies was rocked on the banks Of the Clyde
or the Rhine or the Shannon or the Seine
or the Iiber. Had the watchword Am
erica for Americans" been an early and
successful cry. where now stand our cities
would rave stood Indian wiSwans and
canoes instead of steamers would
have tracked the Hudson and
he Connecticut; and instead Of
che Mississippi being the main artery OF
the continent il would have been only .
trough for deer and antelope and wild
pigeon to drink out Of. What makes the
cry OF America for Americans" the more
absurd and the more inhuman 10 that ZONE
in this country who themselves arrived
here in their boyhood or only one or two
generations back are joining the cry
Escaped from foreign despotism them.
selves they say. shut the door Of escape
for others" Getting themselves ON our
shores in . lifeboat from the shipwreck.
saying. HAUL the boat on the beach and
let the rest OF the passengers go to the bot.
Scotch or German or English or Irish
brogue CRYING out. America for Ameri.
can" What IL the the native inhabitants
Of h~eaven-l mean b angels. the cherub-
i'm, the seraphim born there-should
stand in the gate and when they see us
coming up at the last should say. Go
back! Heaven for the Heavenians:"
OF course we do not allow foreign No.
tions &" make this country . convict col
ony. We would have . wall built a. high
as Heaven and as deep a. he'll against
foreign thieves. p~ickpocke,s md anar-
chista We would not let them wipe their
fest on the mat Of the outside doos Of
Castle Garden. II England or Russia or
Germany OF France send here their des.
peradoes 90 get clear OF them. we would
have these desperadoes zen; tack IN chains
to the places where they came from. We
will not have America h<coms the damp
ing place for foreign vsgntondism Bat
you bald up . wall .: the Narrovs before
New York harbor. o. At the Golden Gate
before San Francisco, and forbid tn. com
ing OF the industrious and hard working
and hoaess population Of other and who
want 20 breath the air OF oar FREE in-ti.
tutions and get opportunity for better
livelihood asd IL 10 only . question OF tine
WhsaG God viii Tumble that wall ass on our
Own hssas with b red hot thuaderhoI,s Of