The Russellville Democrat., 1889-03-14

tween Turk and Russian, between En- glish and French, between Mongolian and anti -Mongolian, between black and white, and put up over that grave for tombstone some seorched and jagged chunk of seoriie spit out by some volcanic eruption anu 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 perdition from whence it came. No peace to its ashesW
 Now, in view of this subject, have two point blank 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 apologetic 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 Englishman? Though during the revolutionary war your fathers treated our fathers roughly England has more 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 halleluiahs of the oth- CT. And who shall ever pay England for what Shakespeare and John Milton and Wadsworth and thousand others have done for Americag Are you a Scotchmanf 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 @ Frenchman? 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 fleet 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 1 in the disastrous battle at Camden, and after we have named our streets and our cities and counties after him we have not paid a tithe of what we owe Ger many for his valor and self-sacrifce. And what about Martin Luther, the giant German who made way for religious lib
 erty for all lands and ages? Are you Polander: How can we forget your brill iant Count Pulaski, whose bones were laid in Savannah river after a mortal wound gotten while in the stirrups of one of the fercest cavalry charges of the American revolution? But with no time to particu- larize, 1 say: "All hail to the men and women of other lands who come here with honest purposel" Renounce all obliga- ton to foreign despots. Take the oath of American allegiance. Get out your nat uralization 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 ara steamers going out of our ports almost every day, and the fare is cheap, and, lest you should be detained for parting civili- l ties, bid you goodbye now. But if you like 1t here, then charge you, at the bal lot-box, in legislative hall, in churches and everywhere be ut-and-out Ameri- cans. Do not try to establish here the loose foreign Sabbaths or transcendent-
 alism spun into @ religion of mush and
 moonshine, or foreign libertinism or that condensation of all thievery, scoundrel- ism, lust, murder and perdition, which in Russia is called Nihilism, and in France called Communism, and in America called AuarchisIh. Unite with us in mak- 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. jeans ought to do for foreigners. By all possible means explain to them our in- ! jority of them know about as much con corning Republican or Democratic form 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 have been oppressed there, in that native land there are sacred places, cabins or mansions, around whose doors they played, and perhaps somewhere there is e grave into which they would like, when life's tolls are over, to be let down, for if 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 their stumbling attempts at the hardest of all languages to learn, namely, the English language. 1 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, fItsa rasgr nfaln rh1
 gelized, will be our mightiest defense against all the world. The Congress of the United States recently ordered built new forts all up and down our American coasts, and a new navy is about to be pro- jected. But let me say that $500, 900 900 expended in coast defense will not be so 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 men in New York, France would as soon think of firing on Paris. With hum dreds of thousands Of Englishmen in New York, England would as soon think of de- stroying London. The mightiest defense against European nations is a wall of Europeans reaching up and down the American Continent-a wall of heads and hearts consecrated 10 free government A bulwark of foreign humanity heaved mp all along our shores, reinforced by the Atlantic Ocean armed as it is with tempests and Caribbean whirl- winds and giant pillows ready to fling mountains from their catapault, we need as @ nation fear no one in the uni- verse but God, and if found in his service we need not fear him. As six hundred million people will yet sit down at our National table, let God preside To him be dedicated the metal of our mines, the sheayes of our harvest-felds, the fruits of our orchards, the fabrics of our manufact- ories, the telescopes of our observatories,