The Russellville Democrat., 1889-03-14
TAIMAGE'S SERMON.
A Pertinent Question:: "Shall Amer- s1iea be Reserved for Americans?"
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sar nj. subject. Shall the American Com tnrut'. E,-ervel for Americans" His text was.
 ,giaam m.a of one blood 9 Tations,- s'- xvii, -n
 That 5t for-ome rea8eh general phle- totamv were ordered and standing in a yov were au American, m Englishman, s sScytuhmau ant an Irishmau, French nan. a German, Norwegian, an Ice saglar a Speoiarl, an Italian, Russian and rnuresyntatiyes os all other national file. bar,I their right arm and lancet vsrr struck into il the blood let out would have thcsalne characteristic, for it would he red, complex, ubrinc giobuline. chlo- rire. and containing sulphuric acid, potas- sjnul. phosphate of magne-ia and so on, and Harvey. and Sir Astley Cooper, and Richardson. and Zimmerman, and Brown Seogard. and all the scientific doctors, .sIopatAle. homeopathic, hydropathie and Eclectic. would agree with Paul as, stand ing ou Mus U.ll his pulpit ridge of limestone rock fifty feet high, and amopl the pr3udest and most ex- elusive and undemperdtic people Of the earth. he crashed into al their prejudices by declaring in tine words of my text that 
 The cauutensuce of the i've races of the human family may be different as re- splt 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 She retreating forehead and large lip, and the Mougolan the fiat face of olive hue, and the American. Indian the copper colored complexion bTt the blood is the same. and indicates that they all had one origin, and that Adam and Eve were their ancestor and auCestrcss.
 Ithink God bull. this American con- tiuent and organized this United States Republic to demonstrate the stupendous idea of the text. \ man in Persia will al- ways remain Persian, man in Switzer- land will always remain q Swiss, man in Austria will always remain an Aus trian, but all foreign nationalities coming to America were intended to be Amer- Leans. This land is the chemical labora- tory where all foreign bloods are to be anexuicably mixed mp and race prejudices and race antiquities are to perish, and this sermon k an axe by which hope to kill them. It is not hard for me to preach sErh sermon, because, although my ancestors came to this country about 250 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 national ities that feel at home with people from under every sky and have a right to call them blood relations. There are mad .saps and patriotic lunatics i'll this country who are ever and anon crying out, Amer lea for Americans" Down with the Ger mans Down with the Irish. Down with Jewsl Down with the Chinese 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 reser- yation, who were not descended from Foreigners if you go far enough back. The only native Americans are the Mo- docs the Shawuees, the Chippewns, the Cherokees, the Chickasaws, the Semi holes and such like. If the principle, America only for Americans, be carried out, then you and I have no right to be here, and we had better charter all the steamers and clippers and mem war and yachts and sloops and get out of this country os quick as possible. The pill grim fathers were all immigrants, the Huguenots all immigrants. The cradle of almost every one of our families was rOgkp1 m tka hank tf ha lflg~1a ba Rhine, or the shannon, or the Seine, or .the Tiber. Had the watchword America for Americans" been an early and suc- cessful cry, where now stand our cities would have stood wigwams, and canoes instead of steamers would have tracked the Hudson and the Connecticut; and in- stead of the Mississippi being the main artery of the continent, it would have been only trough for deer and antelope aud wild pigeons 10 drink out of. What makes the cry America for Americans" the more absurd and the more inhuman is that some in this country who them- selves arrived here in their boyhood or {, arrived here only one or two generations pack are joining in the cry. Escaped from foreign despOtism themselves, they say: smut the door of escape for others" Getting themselves on our shore in life boat from the shipwreck, saying: Haul the boat on the beach and let the rest of tho passengers go to the bOttomw Men who have yet on them a Scotch or Ger man or English or Irish brogue crying out America for Americans :" What tho native inhabitants of Heaven, mean tho angels, the cherubim, the sera- phlm born there, should stand in the gate and when they see us coming up at the last should say. "Go back! Heaven for the Heayonians W
 or course we do we'll not tO allow for elgn nations to make this country con Wet colony. We would have 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 Ou the mat of the outside door ot Castle Garden. If England, or Russia, of Germany OF France, send here their oesperadpes tD get clear of them, we would have these desperadoes sent back m chains Co the places where they came rom. We will not have America become the dumping place for foreign vagabond- Ism. But yon build up a wall at the Mar fows before New York harbor, or at the Golden Gate before San Fraa- 7 cisco, and forbid the coming of the iu- dushiou5 and hard-workiug and hon. est population of other lands who want to bfeafhe tho air of our free institutions and get opportunity for better livelihood, and IS only question of time when God VII tumble that wan faton our own heads with tho red-hot thunderbolts of his om- nlpoteut indignation. You arc father and you have five children. The parlor is me best room in your house. Your son Philip says to the other four children. 'Now, John, you live in the small room in the end of the hall and stay there; George, you live in the garret and stay there; Mary youlire in tho cell1rand stay there; Fannie, you live iu the kitchen and stay there. l, Philip, will take Inc paIlor. It eults me exactly. ! like the pictures on the wall Ike the lambreQuins at the wSlndo"-. like the Administer on tine Floor NuR, l. Philip. propose to oc. eapy the parlnr, and I command yoa tJ stay out. The psrlor only for