The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-03-09
AMERICA FOR ALL.
DR.. Talmage on the Greatness Of
Our Republic.
This Country Welcomes All Good Men
No Foreign Convicts or Anarchists
Wanted-Good Results From the
Union of Races Predicted.

Union of Races Predicted.
In a late sermon at Brooklyn on the sub
ject, !"Shall America be Reserved for
A~merlcans?" Rev. Il. De Witt Talmage
his text from Acts xvii. %: "And
hath made of one blood all nations" He
said:
That is. IL for some reason general phle-
botomy were ordered and standing in arrow
were an American, an Englishman, a
and an ~Irishnfan, a French
man, a German, n Norwegian, an Ice
lander, a Spaniard, an Italian, a Russian
and representatives of all other nationali-
ties barred their right arm and a lancet
were struck into it. the blood let out would
have the same characteristics, for it would
be red, complex, fbrine, g~lobuline, chlorine
and containing sulphuric acid, potassium,
phosphate of magnesia and so on. and
Harvey and Sir Ashley Cooper and Rich
ardson and Zimmerman and Brown
Sequard and all the scientific doctors, allo-
pathic, homeopathic, hydropathic and
eclectic, would agree with Paul, as, stand
ing on Mars hill, his pulpit a ridge of
limestone rock fifty feet high and
among the proudest and most exclusive and
undemocratic people of the earth, he
crashed into all their prejudices by de-
claring in the words of my text that God
had made "of one blood all nations" The
countenance of the five races of the human
family may be different as a result Of
climate or education or habits, and the
Malay will have the projecting jaw and
The Caucasian the v face and small
mouth and the Ethiopian the retreating
forehead n large lip and the Mongolian
the fiat face of olive hue and the Ameri:
can indian the copper 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
ancestress.
| think God built this American con-
tinent and organized this United States
Republic to demonstrate the stupendous
idea of the text. A man in Persia will al
ways remain a Persian, q man in Switzer-
land will always remain a Swiss, a man
in Austria will always remain an Aus
trlan, but all foreign ~nationalities coming
to America were intended to be Ameri-
a This n is the chemical labora-
tory where foreign bloods are to be inextri-
cably mixed up and race prejudices and.
race antipathies are to perish, and this
sermon is an axe by which l hope to help
kill them. 1t is not hard for one to preach
such a sermon, because, although my an
~cestors came to this country about We
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 / am a mixture of so many
n~ationalities that l feel at home with peo-
pie from under every sky and nave right
to call them blood relations. There are
madcaps 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 Jewsi Down with the
Chinesel are in some directions the popu-
lar cries, all of which vociferations 1
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,
not five men in any audience to-day in
America except it be on al Indian reser-
walton, who were not descended from for
eigners if you go far enough back. The
only native Americans are the Modocs,
the Shawnees, the Chippewas, the Chero-
KEGS, the ~Chickasaws, the Seminoles and
such like. If the principle America only
for Americans be carried out, then you
and 1 have no right to be here n 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 Huguenots all immigrants.
The cradle of most every one of our fam
lilies was rocked on the banks Of the Clyde
or he Rhine or the Shannon or the Seine
or the Tiber. Had the w~atchword .Am-
erica for Americans" been an early and
successful cry, where now stand our cities
would have stood Indian wigwams and
canoes instead of steamers would
have tracked the Hudson and
the Connecticut; and instead OF
the Mississippi being the main artery OIL
the continent, 1t would have been only q
trough for deer and antelope and wild
pigeon to drink but of.
OF course we do not allow foreign ma
tions to make this country a convict col
-ony. We would nave a wall built as high
as Heaven and as deep as hell against
foreign thieves, pickpockets and anar
chists. We would not let them wipe their
feet on the mat of the outside door OF
Castle Garden. II England or Russia or
rma or France send here their des-
peradoes to get clear of them, WI would
nave these desperadoes sent back in chains
to the places where they came iron. We
will not have America become the dump.
ing pluce for foreign v~agabondism. BuI
YOU build up a wall at the Narrows before
New York harbor, or at the Golden Cat
before San Francisco, and forbid the com
ing Of the industrious and hard workinl
and honest population Of other lands whit
want to breath the air OF our free insti
buttons and get opportunity for bette
livelihood and it is only a question Of tim
when God will tumble that wall fiat on on
own heads with the red hot thunderbolts o
omnfpotent indignation. You are a father
and you have five children. The parlor
the best room in your house. Your Sol
PhiIip saws to the other four children
Now. John, you live in the small room Ii
the end of the hall and stay there; George
Won live in the garrett and stay there
Mnry. you live In the cellar n sta,
there: Fanny, you live in the kitchen an
stay there. /, Philip, will take the parlol
Il suits me exactly. like the pictures o.
the wall. / like the la~mbrequins at tn
1 like the Administer on tn
floor. Now, /, Philip, propose to occup'
this parlor and command you to stay on,
The parlor only Tor Philippians" You
the father, hear of this argument an
what will you doP You will get red in tn
face and say, John, come out of tina
small room at the end of the hall; George
come down out OF the garnet; Mary, com
10 from the cellar; Fanny, come in out c
the kitchen, and go iuto the parlor or any
where you choose; and Philip, for you
~preediness and unbrotherly behavior,
put you for two hours in the dark close
under the s~tairs.n God is the Father c
the human race. He has OF least fv
sons, a North American, a Sout
American, a European, an ASlati
and an African. The North American
sniffs the breeze and he says to his fou
brothers aud sisters: "Let the Sout
American stay in South America, let tn
European stay in Europe, let the Asiati
stay in Asia, let the African stay !
Africa; but America is for me. l think
is the parlor of the whole earth. like II
carpets of grass and its upholstery of th
front window. namely the American sur
rise, and the upholstery Of the back wir
dow, namely the American sunset. No
/ want you all to stay out and keep
your places"
am sure the Father Of the whole huma
race would hear of it and chastisemeI
would come ant, whether by earthquah
or flood or drought or heaven darkenin
swnrms of locus and grasshopper or d.
stroying angel of pestilence, God wouI
rebuke our se~lfshness as q Nation and ga
to the four winds Of heaven: "Th
world Is my house and the North Amer
can is no more my child than Is the Sou
American and the European and I'll
Asiatic and the African. And ] built tn
world for all the children, and the parl'
is theirs and all is theirs" For, let n