The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-03-21


ous as to stop shipping
IL is through mighty addition OF foreign
population to our native population that l
think God is going to ill this land with a
race of people 95 per cent. superior to any
thing the world has ever seen. Inter
marriage of families and intermarriage Of
nations is depressing and crippling. Marriage
another style of nationality is mighty gain
What makes the Scotch-Irish second to NJ
pedigree for brain and stamina of charactei,
so that blood goes right up to supreme
court bench and to the front rank in jurl
prudence and merchandise and arts Because
nothing under heaven can be more unliks
than Scotchman AMI an lrishman and ths
descendants of these two conjoined nation
alities, unless rum filings them, 60 right to
the tip top in everything. All nationalities
coming to this land the opposites will
all the while be affianced. and French
and German will unite and that will stop all
the quarrel between them, and one child they
will call Alsace and the other Lorraine.
And hot-blooded Spaniard will unite with
cool-blooded Po,ander and romantic Italian
with matter OF fact Nor we san, and
hundred and fifty years from now the rare
occupying this land will be in stature
in purity of complexion, in liquidity OF
eye, in gracefuluess Of poise, in dome ike
brow, in taste, in intelligence and in morals
so far ahead of anything now known on either
side the seas that this last quarter OF the
like the Dark Ages. Oh, then how
they will legislate and bargain and pray and
preach and govern! This is the land where
by the mingling OF races the race prejudice
is to get its death blow. How Heaven feels
about it we may conclude from the fact that
Christ, the jew, and descended from
Jewess, nevertheless provided religion for
hot q a.
came the chief apostle of the Gentiles, and
that recently God has allowed to burst in
splendor upon the attention OF the world
Hirsch, the Jew, who after giving ten million
dollars to Christian churches and hospitals,
has called committee Of nations and fur
nished them with forty million dollars for
schools to elevate his race in France and Ger
many and Russia to higher intelligence and
abolish, as he says, the prejudices against
their race, these fifty million dollars not
given in a last will and testament and at a
time when a man must leave his money
anyhow, but by donation at fifty years
of age and in good health, utterly eclipsing
all benevolence since the world was created.
l must confess there was time when
| entertained race prejudice, but thanks
to God, that prejudice has gone, and II sat
in church and on one side of me there was a
black man and on the other side OF me was
an Indian and before me was a Chinaman
3n1yDcniDu lle u lurht NOulu Dc uhppy 40
am now standing in the presence OF this
brilliant audience. and am as happy now as
/ can be and live The sooner we get this
corpse of race prejudice buried, the healthier
will be 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 as the center of the earth and half way
to China but no further lest it poison those
living on the other side the earth. Then into
this grave let down the accursed carcass Of
race prejudice and throw on it all the mean
things that have ever been said and written
between jew and Gentle, between Turk
and Russian, between English and
French, between Monaghan and anti
Monaghan. between black and white, and
put up over that grave for tombstone some
scorched and jagged chunk OF scorie spit
out by some volcanic eruption and chisel on
it for epitaph: Here lies the carcass of one
who cursed the world. Aged, near six
thousand years. Departed this life for the
perditon from whence it came. No peace to
its ashes!"
now, in view or This SUBJECT nave 1--WE
point blank words to utter, one suggesting
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 realize 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 Englshman9 Though during
the Revolutionary war your fathers treated
our fathers roughly, England has more
than atoned for that by giving to this coun
try at least two denominations OF CHRIS
tians the Church of England and the
Methodist Church. Witness the magnificent
liturgy of the one and the Wesleyan hallelu
iahs Of the other. And who shall ever pay
England for what Shakespeare and JohI
Milton and Wordsworth and a thousand
other authors have done for America
Are you a Scotchmans Thanks FOL
John Knox's Presbyterianism; the bal
ance wheel of all other denominations
| And how shall Americans ever pay your ma
tive land for what Thomas Chalmers ant
Macintosh and Robert Burns and Christie
pher. North and Robert McCheyne AM
Candlish and Guthrie have done TO
| Americans! Are you Frenchmans w
cannot forget your Lafayette, who in tn
most desperate time Of our American revolu
ton, New York surrendered and our armie
| flying in retreat, espOused our cause ana a
Brandywine and Monmouth and yorktown
put all America under eternal obliga
ton. And we cannot forget the coming t.
tine rescue of our fathers Rochambeau AM
his French fleet with six thousand arme,
men. Are you Germani We have no
forgotten the eleven wounds through whic
| y
at the head of the Maryland and Delawar
troops in the disastrous battle at Camden, an
| after we have named our streets and our cite
and counties after him we have not paid
tithe of what we owe Germany for his valo
and self sacrifice. And what about Marti
! religious liberty for all lands and ages Ar
you Polanderl How can we forget you
brilliant Count Pulaski, whose bone
were laid in Savannah River after
mortal wound gotten while In tn
stfrrups of one Of the fercest cavalr
charges of the American revolutions Blu
with no time to PARTICIPANTS l say: "A
hail to the men and women OF other land
who come here with honest purpossl" Re
nounce all obligation to foreign despoea
Take the oath Of American allegiance: Ge
out your naturalization papers. Don't tai
against our institutions, for the nc
that you came here and stay show
that Won like ours better than any other.
you don't like them there are steamers goin
out Of our ports almost every day, and th
fare is cheap and, lest you should be detaine
now. But Il you like il here, then charg
you, at the ballot box, in legislativ
hall, in churches and everywhere
out and out Americans Do not tr
to establish here the loose foreign Sal
baths or Reconsideration spun into RI
nplOn OIL fuubu anu uOOuS0l0e, OF IOr6lR
libertinism or that condensation Of all thiey
cry, scoundrelism, lust, murder and perd
ton which in Russia is called Nihilism an
in France called Communism and in Americ
called Anarchism. Unite with us in maxim
by the grace of God tbs fifteen million squaI
miles Of America on both sides the Isthmr
Of Panama the paradise of virtue and r,
hgion.
NY other word suggests what American
ought to do for foreigners. By all poss
Bile means explain to them our institution
Coming here, the vast majority Of them kno
about as much concerning Republican {
Democratic form OF government as you
the United States know about politics I
Denmark or France or Italy or Swi
zerland, namely nothing. Explain to the
that liberty in this country means liberty
do right. but not liberty to do wroni
Never in their presence say anything again,
their native land. for, no matter how muc
they may have been oppressed there,
that native land there ars sacred place
cabins or mansions around whose doors the
played, and perhaps somewhere there is
grave into which they would like, when life
tolls are over, TO be let down, for it
mothers grave, aud it would be Ill
going again into the loving arm
that first held them, aDd again