The national leader., 1889-03-23
R. TALMAGE'S SERMON:
The Reservation of fAmerica..

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AND hath made of one blood all ma
s." Ihat is, if for some reason
eral phlebotomy were ordered. and
nolng In row were an American.
Engllshman, a Scotchman, and an
hman. Frenchman, German. a
Weglan. an Icelander, Spaniard.
ltallan, Russian, and representa-
eS OF all other nationalities barred
lr right arm, and lancet were
acK into it, the blood let out would
red, complex, fbrlne, globuline,
orlne, and containing sulphuric acid,
asslum. phosphate of magnesia, and
on; and Harvey and Sir Ashley
|oper and Richardson and Zimmer-
n ana Brown Sequard. and all the
entihc doctors, allopathic, home
athlc, hydropathic and eclectic,
puld agree with Paul, as, standing on
ars Hill. his pulpit ridge of lime
pne rock fifty feet high, and among
o proudest and most exclusive and
democratic people of the earth he
ashed into all their preJudices 10y de-
arlng, in the words of my text, that
od had made ''of one blood all ma
ons." The countenance of
THE FIVE RACES
the human family may be different
a result Of climate or education or
abits, and the Malay will have the
Projecting upper jaw, and the Cauca-
Ian the oval face and small mouth,
nd the Ethiopian the retreating fore
bead and large lip, and the Mongolian
4 ne fiat face of olive hue. and the Amer
can Indian the copper-colored COM
plexion, but the blood is the same, and
indicates that they all had one origin,
bnd that Adam and Eve were their an
eestOr and ancestress.
/ think God built this American con-
tinent and organized this United States
republic to demonstrate the stUpendous
always remain Persian, man in
switzerland will always remain a
Swiss, a man in Austria will al
ways remain an Austrian, but
all foreign nationalities coming to
America were intended to be Ameri-
cans. This land is the chemical labor
atory where foreign bloods are to be
mixed up and race pre-
iudices and
RACE ANTIPATHIES ARE TO PERISH,
and that sermon is an axe by which l
hope to help kill them. 1t is not hard
for me to preach such sermon, be-
cause, although my ancestors came to
this country about two 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 mixture Of so
many natiOnalitieS that feel at home
with people from under every sky, and
have a right to call them blood rela-
tions. There are madcaps and patriotic
l,tnatics in this country who are ever
and anon crying out, America for
Americans /" Down with the Ger
Down with the Irish! Down
with the JewsI Down with the Chinese!
are in some directions the popular cries,
all of which yociferations would drown
ont by the full organ Of my text, while
I pull out the stops and put my foot on
the medal that will open the loudest
mines and run my fingers over all the
fonr banks of ivory keys, playing the
chant. "God hath made vi one blood
all nations. i
There are not five men in this audi
ence nor five men in any audience to-
dav in America, except it be on an In
dian reservation, who were not des-
cended from foreigners if you go far
enonoh back. The only native Amerl-
cons are the Modocs. the Shawnees, the
Chippewas, the Cherokees, the Chick
asaws. the Seminoles and such like. Ii
the principle, America only for Amerl-
cans he carried out. then you and l
have no right to be here and we had
hotter charter all the steamers and clip
,,ers and men-of-war and yachts and
sloons and get out of this country as
omick O as possible. The Pilgrim Fathers
we're all Immigrants.
,r,,r, 7rGUENoTS ALL IMMIGRANTS.
Tho cradle of most every one of our
trs;1;as ~ was rocked on the bank of the
1H T1udo or the Rhine, or the Shannon or
USe tI5 Cine or the Tiber. Had the watch
.d LUG ia merica for Americans!'' been
an " early and successful cry, where now
nd an e onr cities would have stood In.
Sia S;ap wlgwams; and canoes instead of
s4oomers @ would have tracked the Hud-
ste" nnd the Connecticut; and, instead
son 30 +Se H Mississippi being the main artery
of the s continent, it would have been
Oh .no trough for deer and antelope and
on,y ,s niceons to drink out of. What
wiz aIas fhe cry of America for Amer
maken msI,, m the more absurd, and the more
lcanS. ,on IS that some in this country,
lnna no Themselves arrived here in their
wSood VINO s, or arrived here only one or
boynOou Generations back, are joining in
tSs .%o cgy. Escaped from foreign despot-
tne ~, Themselves, they say, shut the
lsms @ Of escape for others" Getting
tdSosomselves door 81 on our shores in
rrEgoAT FROM THE sH1PWREcK,
- - Haul the boat on the beach,
saying, tho rest of the passengers go to
and iet iettnn,r, tn Men who have yet on