Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-03-04
A WORD TO FOREIGNERS.

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it poison those living on the other side of
the earth.
A WORD TO FOREIGNERS.
Now, in view Of this subject, have two
point blank words to utter, one suggesting
what foreigners ought TO do for us, and the
other what we ought TO do for foreigners
First, to foreigners. Lay aside all apol-
Ogetic 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 Eoglaud and the Methodist
Church. Witness the magnificent liturgy
of the one and the Wesleyan halleluj abs of
the other And who shall ever pay Egg
land for what Shakespeare and John Mil
ton ana Wordsworth and thousand
Other authors have done for America? Are
y0u a ScOtchmap? Thanks for John
Knox's Presbyt riRnism; { balance
wheel of all other den limitations. And
how shall Americans ever pay your native
land for what Thomas Chalmers and Mac
intosh and Robert Burns and Christopher
North and Robert McCheyne AID Csndlish
and Guthrie have done for Americans?
Are you Frenchmsn? We cannot forget
your Lafayette, who in the most desperate
time of our American revolution, New
York SURF ndered and our armies flying in
II treat, espOused our cause and at Brandy
wine and Monmouth and Yorktown put all
America under eternal obi alton. And
we cannot forget the coming to the rescue
of our fathers ROchambeau and his French
fleet, wi Elk thousand armed men. Ar
Won German? We have not forgotten
the elevsn wounds through which your
Baron De Kalb poured out his life
blood at the head of the Maryland
and Delaware troops in the disastrous bat
tie at Camden, and after Te have named
cur streets and or cities and counties af-
| ter him we have not paid 1.-THE of what
we owe to Germ ny for his valor and self
sacrifice. And what about Martin Luther,
the giant German who made way for relig-
ious Liberty for all lands and ages? Are
YOU POlandeT? How can we forget your
brilliant Count Pulaski, whose bones were
laid in Savannah river after mortal
wound gotten while in the stirrups of one
of the fercest cavalry charges of the Amer
| lean revolution? But with no time TO
particulsTize l say, "All hail to the men
and women Of other lands who come here
with honest purposep' Renounce all obi
cation to foreign deepots. Get out
your naturalization papers. Don't talk
against our institutions, for the fact
that you came here aud stay shows that
You like ours better than any other. If
YOU don't like them there are steamers 60
ing ont o. our ports almost every day, and
the fare is cheap and, lest you should be
detained for parting civilities, / bid you
eood-by now. Bat if you like it here, then
l charge you, at the ballot box, in legisla-
tive ball, in churches and everywhere be
out and out Americans. Do not try to
establish here the loose foreign Ssbbaths
or transcendentalism spun into religion
of mush and mOOnshine. or foreign liber-
tinism or that condensation of all thievery,
seoundreism, lust, murder and perdition
which II Russia is called Nihilism and ID
France c He'd Communism and in America
called Anarchism. Unite with us in max
ing by the grace of God the fifteen million
square miles of America on both sides of
Is,hmus of Panama the paradise of virtue
and religion.
DUTY OF AMERICANS.
Ny other word suggests what Americans
ought to do for foreigners. By all posi-
BILE means explain to them our institutions
Coming here, the vast majority of them
know about as mach concerning republic
can or democratic form of government ss
you in the United States know about the
politics of Denmark or France or Italy or
Switzerland, namely, nothing. Explain
TO them that liberty in this country means
liberty to do right, but not liberty to do
wrong.
Rejoice as Christian patriots that instead
of being an element of weakness the for
eign people thoroughly evangelical will be
our mightiest defen-e against all the
world. The Congress Of the United States
recently order, d built new forts all up and
down our American coasts, and new
navy is about TO be projected. But let me
saw that three hundred million dollars ex-
pended in coast defense will not be so
mighty as vast foreign population
living. in America. With hundreds
of thousands of Germans in New York,
Germany would as soon think of bomb
Smelling Berlin as attacking us. With
hundreds of thousands of Frenchmen in
New York, France would as soon think OF
firing on Paris. With hundreds of thou
sands of Englishmen in New York, Eng
land would as soon think of destroying
London. The mightiest defense against
European nations is wall of Europeans
reaching all up and down the American
continent, wall Of heads and hearts con-
secrated to free government. A bulwsrk
of foreign humanity heaved up all along
our shores, re-enforcad by the Atlantic
ocean. armed az il ia with tempests and
Carribean whirlwinds and giant pillows
ready TO fling mountains from their cata-
nauit. we need as a nation fear 70 enc ID
the universe but God, aud 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. 10
him he dedicated the metal of our Mines
the sheayes of our harvest fields, the fruits
of our orchards, the fabrics OF our manu-
factories, the telescopes Of cur Observable
ries. the volumes Of our Libraries, TIE
songs of our churches, the affections Of
our hearts, and all our lakes become bap
iis1nal fonts and all our mountains affairs
of nraise and all our valleys amphlthea'
tres of worship, and our country, having
become fifty nations consolidated IN one
NAV its every heart throb be p1lsation
of gratitude to him who made of one
blood all nations" and ransomed thai
blood by the payment Of the last drop o.
his own.
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