The Brookhaven leader., 1889-03-14

and let US dig its grave clear on down, deep.
er and deeper, till we get as far down as
the oenter OF the earth aud half way to
China. but no further, lestit poison those
living on the other side the earth. Then
! into this grave let down the accursed car
4 oass OF race preiudice and throw on 1t all
the mean things that have ever been said
and written between Jew and GENTLE, bee
tween Turk and Russian, between En-
glish and French, between Hongolian and
anti-M0ngolian, between black and white,
and putup over that grave for tombstone
some scorched and jagged chunk Of scorie
spit out by some volcanic eruption and
chisel on IL for epitaph: Here lies the
carcass Of one who cursed the world.
Aged near six thousand years. Departed
this life for the perdition fram whence 1t
came. No peace to its ashes"
Now, in view OF this subject, I have two
point-blssk words to utter, one suggest
ing what foreigners ought to do for US,
and the other what we ought to do for
foreigners. First to foreigners: Lay aside
all apologize air and rcalizs you have as
much right as any man who was not only
himself born here, but his father and his
grandfather and great grandfather before
him. Are you an Englishmang Though
dNTtng the revolutionary war your fathers
treated our fathers roughly, England
has mere than atoned for that by
giving to this country at least two
denominations of Christians, the Church
OF England and the Methodist Church.
Witness the magnificent liturgy of the one
and the Wesleyan hallelujahs of the 9TH
er. And who shall ever pay England for
what Shakespeare and John Milton and
Wadsworth and thousand others have
done for America? Are you Scotchmani
Thanks for John Knox's Presbyterianism;
the balance wheel of all other denomina-
tions. And how shall Americans ever
pay your native land for what Thomas
Chalmers and Mcintosh and Robert
Burns and Christopher North and Robert
! McCheyne and Candlish and Guthrie have
done for Americans?
Are you a Frenchmanp We can not
forget your Lafayette, who, in the most
| desperate time of our American revolu-
ton, New York surrendered and our ar
mics flying In retreat, espoused our cause,
and at Brandywine and Monmouth, and
Yorktown put all America under eternal
obligation. And we can not forget the
coming to the rescue Of our fathers
Rochambeau and his French feet with
six thousand armed men. Are you a
! German? We have not forgotten the
eleven wounds through which your Baron
de Kalb poured out his life blood at the
| head of the Maryland and Delaware troops
in the disastrous battle at Camden, and
| after we have named our streets and our
| cities and counties after him we have
not paid 1.-THE OF what we owe Ger
many for his valor and self-sacrifice.
And what about Martin Luther, the giant
| DE al VI In m ada for raliUiOI,s lh-
erty for all lands and ages2 Ape you
Polander? How can we forget your brill
| liant Count Pulaski, whose bones were laid
in Savannah river after mortal wound
| gotten while in the stirrups of one of the
iercest cavalry charges of the American
| revolution? But with no time to particu-
| larize, l say: "All hail to the men and
women of other lands who come here with
honest purpose" Renounce all obliga-
ton to foreign despots. Take the oath Of
American allegiance. Get out your nat
uralkation papers. Don't talk against
our institutions, for the fact that you
came here and stay shows that you
like ours better than any other.
| If you don't like them there are
steamers going out Of our ports almost
every day, and the fare is cheap, and, lest
you should be detained for parting civili-
ties, bid you goodbye now. But il you
like 1t here, then charge you, at the bal
lott box, in Legislative hall, in churches
and everywhere be out-and-out Ameri-
cans. Do not try to establish here the
loose foreign Sabbaths or transcendent-
alism spun into u religion of mush and
moonshine, or foreign libertinism or that
condensation OF all thieverv, seoundrel-
ism, lust, murder and perdition, which III
Russia is called Nihilism, and in France
called Communism, and in America
called Anarchisn. Unite with US in max
ing by the grace of God the fifteen million
square miles of America on both sides the
Isthmus of Panama the paradise Of virtue
and religion.
My other word suggests what Amer.
leans ought to do for foreigners. By all
possible means explain to them our in
situations. Coming here, the vast ma
iorfty Of them know about as much con-
corning Republican or Democratic forrn
Of government as you in the United States
know about politics in Denmark, or France,
or Italy, or Switzerland, namely, nothing.
Explain to them that liberty in this cOun-
try means liberty to do right, but not lib
erty to do wrong. Never in their pres
ence say any thing against their native
land, for, no matter how much they may
nave Dcch OppTCoSVu LlCECs III lAdt udllN6
land there are sacred places, cabins or
mansions, around whose doors they
played, and perhaps somewhere there is O
grave into which they would like, when
life's tolls are over, to be let down, for it
is mothers grave, and it would be like
going again into the loving arms that first
held them and against the bosom that first
pillowed them. My! my! how low down
human must have descended to have no
regard for the place where his cradle was
rocked. Don't mock their brogue or the r
stumbling attempts at the hardest of all
, languages to learn, namely, the English
language. l warrant that they speak En-
| glish as we'll as you could talk Scandina-
vian..
Rejoice as Christian patriots that in
stead of being an element of weakness,
the foreign people, thoroughly evan
gelized, viii! be our mightiest defense
against all the world. Tho Congress Of
the United States recently ordered built
new forts all up and down our American
coasts, and new navy is about to be pro-
jected. But let me say that 500, O19, 600
expended in coast defense will not be SO
l mighty as vast foreign population liv-
ing in America. With hundreds of thou
sands of Germans in New York. Ger
many would as soon think of bomb
Smelling Berlin as attacking US. With
hundreds of thousands OF French