The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-03-27

standing in tho presence OF this brilliant
audience, and am as happy now as can
be aul live The sooner we get this corpse
of race prejudice buried, the healthier will
be our rAmericau atmosphere. Let each one
fetch q spade aud letus dig its grave clear on
down deeper aud deeper until 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 accursec
carcass Of race prejudice and throw on il
all the mean things that have ever beer
said and written between Jew and Gentle.
between Turk and Russian, between En-.
glish aud French, between Mongolian and
anti-Moagolian, between black and white,
and put up over that grave fora tombstone
some scorched and jagged chunk of scora
spit out by some VOLCANIC eruption and
chisel on it for cpitaph: 'sHere lies the car
cass Of one who cursed the world. Aged,
near 6,0l0 years. Departed thus life for the
perdition from. whence it came. No peace
to its ashesi"
Now, in view of this subject, have two
point blank words to utter, one suggesting
what foreigners ought to do for u.s. and the
other what we ought to do for foreigners.
First to Foreigners. Lay aside all apologize
air and realize you have as much righs as
any man who was not only hImscE
born here but his father and grand
father and great-grandfather before him
Are you an Englishman! Though during
the Revolutionary war Your father:
treated our fathers roughly, England has
more than atoned for that By giving Ii
this country at least two denomination.
l.; of Christians, the Church OF England
and the Methodist church. Witness the mag
nifcent liturgy of the one ard the Wesleyan
halleluiahs OF the other. And who shall
: ever pay England for what Shakespear:
! and John Milton and Wordsworth and :
! thousand other authors have doGe foS
! America! Are you a Scotchman? Thank
! for John Knox's Presbyteriauism; ths
/ balance wheel of all other denominations
And how shall Americans ever pay your
native land for what Thomas Cha!mera
: and Macintosh and Robert Burns anc
Christopher North and Robert McCheyne
and Candlish and Guthrie have done toi
Americans! Are YOU Frenchman! We
cannot forget your Lafayette, who, III the
most desperate. time of our American RevG
luton, New York surrendered and ou.
armies flying in retreat, eSpouSed our cause,
and at Brandywine and Monmouth and
! Yorktown put all Americans under eternal
obligation. And we can not forget the COM
ing to the rescue of our fathers Rocham5eau
and his French feet with six thousand
armed men. Are you German! We have
which your Baron &c KG.5 poured out his
life blood at the head Of the Maryland and
Delaware troops in the disastrous battle st
Camden, and after we have named our
streets and our cities and counties after
him we have not paid tithe Of Whist we
: owe Germany for her valor and self-sacri-
flee And what about Martin Luther. the
giant German who made way for religious
liberty for all lands and ages? Are you
Polanders How can we forget your bril-
liant Count Pulaski whose bones were laid
in Savannah river after q mortal wound
gotten while in the stirrups of one OF the
fer ceSt cavalry charges of the American
Revolution! But with no time to sparticu-
larize, l say: "All hail to the men and
women Of other lands who come here with
honest purposem Renounce all obligation
to foreign despots. Take the oath Of Amer-
can allegiance. &c. out your naturalization
papers. Don't talk against our institutions,
foE the tfsl ffHt tb That Hep came here and STAY
SSMs Ster If # YOU don't ike 1itvfE 1ivE anAes 4aS
steamers going out Of our ports almost every
day, and the fare is cheap, and, lest you
should be detained for parting civisit!es,
bid you goodbye now. But if you like 1t
here, then I charge you, at the bal!ot-box,
in legislative hall, in churches, and every
where be out and out Americans. Do not
try to establish here the loose foreign Sab
paths or transcendentalism spun into re-
ligion of mush and moonshine, or foreign
ibertinism or that condensation OF all
thievery, scoundreliSm, lust, murder. and
perdition which in Russia is called Nihiiis II
and in France called Communism and in
America called Anarchism. Unite with US
in making 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.
NV other word suggests what Am ericans
ought to do for foreigners. BY all possible
means explain to them our institutions.
Coming here, the vast majority OF them
know about as much concerning rcpubii-
can or democratic form Of government as
you in the United States know about poll
tics of Denmark, or France. or Italy,
or Switzerland, namely, nothing. EX-
plain to them that liberty in this
country means liberty to do right, but
not liberty to do wrong. Never in
their presence say anything against their
native land, for, no matter how much
they may have been oppressed there. in that
native land there are sacred places, cabins
or mansions around whose doors they
played and perhaps somewhere is a grave
into which they would like, when llfe'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.
NV. MY uOW ~" uON IL q iIiou ~ Ae7p iie-N y
descended to have no regard for the pace
where his cradle was rocked. Don't mock
their broguc or their stumbling attempts at
the hardest of all languages to learn, namely
the English language warrant that they
speak English as well US you conld talk
Scandinavian. Treat them in America
as you would like to be treated if for the
sake of Your honest principles or q E:'ter
livelihood for yourself or your family you
had moved under the shadow Of Jungfrau,
or the Rgi, or the Giants Causeway, or the
Bohemia Forest, or the franconlan Jura.
II they get hornesick, as some Of them are,
suggest to them that God is as near to help
them here as He was near them before they
crossed the Atlantic, and that the SOU $
final fight is less than q second whether
from the beach Of the Caspian Sea or the
banks of Lake Erie. Evangel2e their adults
through the churches and their children
through the schools and let home missions
and tract societies and the Bible translated
in all the languages of these foreign people
have full swing.
Rejoice as Christian patriots that instead
of being an element Of weakness the foreign
peon!e thoroughly evangelical will be our
mirhtiest defense against all the world.
Th. Congress of the United States recently
ordered built new forts all up and down our
American coasts. and q new navy is about
to be projected. But let me say that
three hundred million dollars expended
in coast defense will not be so
mighty as a vast foreign population
living in America. With hundreds Of
thousands Of Germans in New York. Ger
,aauv would as soon think Of bombsheling
Berlin as attacking Us. With hundreds Of