Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-03-16
SHALL II Be RESERVED
Or. Talmage Discourses on an
Interesting and Timely
Topic.
The Subject: "Shall America
Be Reserved for Amer
lcans?"
The Question OF Eliminating For
etgncrs From Our Country Does
Not Meet wish Approval by
the Brooklyn Divine.

preached In the brooklyn Tabernacle thu
morning on the subject, Shall Americ
he reserved for Americans?' AS hi
sermons are now translated in ever,
language of Europe and many language
of Asia, in his audience may be seen per
sons from different nations. After an ex
position of the scripture he gave out thu
hymn:
ARR of the Lord, awakel awake.
Put ct by strength, the nations shake!
Text, Acts. xxi, 90: And hath mad,
Of one bloc all nations" That is, if TO
some reason general phlebotomy were
ordered, aAd standing in a row were ar
American, - Englishman, a Scotchmar
and an llishman, a Frenchman, g
German. . Norwegian, an Icelander, 8
Spaniard, y" Italian, a Russian and rep
resentati?c. If ali other n%ationalties barred
their righi I'm and a lancet were struck
nto il, lhe blood let out would have the
sane characteristics, for it would be red,
complex, hbrine, globuline, chlorine, and
containing suiphuric acid, potassium,
phosphate If magnesia and SO on, and
Harvey and Sir Ashley Cooper and Rich
ardson and Zimmerman and Brown
Sequard and all the scientific doctors,
allopothic, homeopathic. h%ydropathic and
eclectic, would agree with Paul az, stand
ing OF Mars Hill, his pulpit a ridge Of
limestone rock fifty feet high and among
the proudest and most exclusive undemo-
cratic people of the earth he
crashed into all their p%rejudices
by declaring in the words Of
my text hat God had made "of one blood
all nations The c~ountenance Of the
i've races Of the human family may be
different as a result of climate or edu-
cation or habits, and the Malay will have
The projecting upper jaw, and the eau
causian the oval face and small mouth,
md the Ethiopian the retreating fore
head and large lip, and the Mongolian the
Hat face Of olive hue, and the American
indian Che 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
anccstress.
think God built this American CONT
nent and organized this United States re
public to demonstrate the stupendous
idea of the text. a man in Persia will al
ways remain a Persian, a man In SwitZCr-
land will always remain a Swiss, a man in
Austria will always remain an Austrian,
pat all foreign natlOnalitles coming TO
America were intended 10 be Americans.
This land is the chemical laboratory
where foreign bloods are 10 be mex
tricably mixed up and race p~rcjudices
and race antipathies are to perish, and
this sermon is an aX by which | hope to
help kill them. 1t is not hard for me to
preach such a sermon, because, 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 a
mixture Of sc many nationalities that |
feel at home with people from under
every sky and have a right TO call them
blood relations. There are madcaps and
patriotic ~luna'ics in this country who are
ever aud anon crying ont, "Aner',a for
Americans" Down with the Germans,
Down with the Irish Down with the
Jews Down with the Chinese! are in
some directions the popular cries, all of
which vociferatiOns | would drown out
by the full organ of NY text, while | 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,
nor five men in any audience today in
America, except it be on an Indian res
eryatiOn, who we're not descended from
foreigners, if you 60 far enough back.
The only native Americans are the Mo-
docs, the Shawnees, the Chippewas.
the CherOkees, the Chickassws, the
SeminOles and such like. If the princi-
pie America only for Americans be car
ried out, then you and l have no right to
be here, and we had better charter all
the steamers and clippers and men Of war
and yachts and sloops and get out Of this
country ae quick as possible. The Pill
grim fathers were all immigrants. the
Hugueno:s all immigrants. The cradle
OF most every one Of onr families was
..cked on the bank Of the Clyde or the
harmon or the Seine or the Tiber. Had
lie watchword America for Ameri
.anc" been an early and successful cry,
where cow stands our cities would have
stood indian wigwams, and canoes in.
stead of steamers would have tracked the
Hudson and the Connecticut; and, in
stead of the Mississippi being the main
artery Of the continent. it would have
been only \ trough for deer and antelope
and wild pigeons 10 drink out of. What
makes the cry Of America for Ameri-
cans the more absurd and the more in
human is that come in this country who
themselves arrived here in their boyhood.
" arrived here only one or two genera
tons back, are joining in the cry. Es-
capped from foreign despotisms them.
selves, they say: Shut the door of es-
cape for others" Getting themselves on
OAR shores in a life boat from the ship
wreck, they say: Hanl the boat on the
beach and let the rest OF the passengers
20 to the bottom, Men who have yet on
them n Scotch or German or English or
Irish brOgue crying out, America for
Americana What IL the native inhsb-
;tants of Heaven, l mean the angels. the
cherubim, the sersphim born there.