The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-04
ROOM FOR ALL NATIONS.
TALMAGE DIsLIKES THE CRY OF
AMERICA FOR AMERICANS.

He Points Out that the Indians Have
The Sole Right to the Continent IL
the Cry is a just One-The Idea Lik-
ened to u Selfish Boys Desire to
Keep the Parlor for His Own Use
Exclusively.
BROOKLYN, March 3.-Dr. Talmage
preached in the Brooklyn tabernacle this
morning on the subject, "Shall America be-
reserved for Americana As his serm ms
are now translated in every language Of
Europe and many languages Of Asia, in his
audiences m y be seen persons from many
different nations. After an exposition Of
the Scripture he gave out the hymn:
Arm Of the Lord awakel awa1el
Put on thy strength, the nations shakei
Text, Acts xvii, 20. "And hath made Of
one blood all nations" That is, IL for some
reason general phlebotomy were orde ed,
and standing in a row we're an American,
an Englishman, Scotchman and an Ir sh-
man, a Frenchman, a German, a n r.
wegan, All lceander, n Spaniard, an Ital-
ian, Russian and representatives of all
other nationalities barred their right arm
and lancet were struck into il, the blood
let out would have the same characteristics,
for it would be red, complex, fibrine,
globuline, chlorine aud containing sui
| nesia and so on, and Harvey aud Sir Asst
ley Cooper and Richardson and Zluner-
| man and Brown -Sequard and all the
scientific doctors, allopathic, homeopathic,
| hYdropathic and eclectic would agree With
Paul as, standing on Mars Hill, his pulpit a
| ridge of limestone rock 80 feet high and
among the proudest and most exclusive and
undemocratc people Of the earth he
crashed into oil their prejudices by declar-
ing in the words Of my text
that God had made ''of one
| blood all nations The countenance OF the
five races of the human family may be DIFF
ferent as a result Of climate or education or
habits, and the Nal y will have the project
ing upper jaw, and the Caucasian the oval
face and small mouth, and the Ethiopian
the retreating forehead and large lip, aud
the Mongolian the fat face of olive hue.
and the American Indian the copper col
ored complexion, but the blood is the sanie
and indicates that they all had one origin,
and that Adam and Eve were their ancestor
aud encesstress.
| thi God built this American continent
ana organized this United States republic
TO demonstrate the stupendous idea Of the
| text. A man in Persia will alvavs remain
a Persian, man in Switzerland will al
| ways remain Swiss a man in Austria
will always remain an Austrian, but all for
eign natlonalities coming TO America were
| intended TO be Americans. This land is the
chemical laboratory where foreign
bloods are to be ineXtric lbly mixed
up and race prejndices and race
antpathies are to perish, and
| this sermon Is an AK by which | hope to
help kill them. 1t Is not hard for me to
preach such n sermon, because, although
my ancestors came to this coui try 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, aud | am n mixture Of so
many nationalities that feel at home with
| people from under every sky and have a
| right to call them blood relations There
are mad-caps and patriotic lunatics in this
| )untry who are ever and anon crying
out, America for Americana Down with
| the Germansl Down with the Irishl Down
with the Jewsl Down with the Chinesei
are in some directions the popular cries. all
| of which vociferations / would drown out
by the full organ Of my text, while pull
out the stops and put my foot on the pedal
that will open the loudest pipes, and run
| nv fingers over all the four banks Of ivory
4 keys, playing the chant, "God hath made Of
| one blood all nRtons.n
| There are not five mon Ia this audience,
nor five men in any audience to-day in
| America except 1t be on an Indian reserva-
ton, who were not descended from for
eigners II you 60 far enough back The
| only native Americans are the Modocs, the
Shawnees, the Chippewas, the Cherokees,
like. II the principle America only for
| Americans be carried out, then you
| and have no right to be here and we
had better charter all the steamers and
clippers and men-of-war and yachts
| aud sloops and get out of this country as
quick as possible The pilgrim fathers were
all immigrants the Huguenots all immi-
grants. The cradle Of most every one of
our families was rocked on the bank OF the
Clyde or the Rhine or the Shannon or the
| Seine or the 1iber. Had the watchword
| "Anerica for Americana been an early
and successful cry, where now stands our
| cities would have stood Indian wigwams.
and canoes instead Of steamers would have
tracked the Hudson and the Connecticut; and
instead Of the Mississippi being the main
artery OF the continent, il would have been
| only trough for deer and antelope and
wild pigeons to drink out of. What makes
the cry Of "America far Americans the
more absurd and the more inhuman is that
some in this country who themselves arrived
here In their boyhood or arrived here only
one or two generations back are joining ia
the cry; Escaped from foreign, despotisms
themselves they say, shut the
door Of escape for others" Getting them
salves on our shores in Il life boat from the
| shipwreck saying, Haul I boat on the
beach and let the rest OF the passengers 20
| to the bottoml Men who have yet on them
n Scotch, or German, or English or Irish
| What n the native inhabitants of II aven,
/ mean the angels, the cherubm, the SER
aphim born there, should stand In the gate
and when they see us coming up at the last
should say: go backl Heaven for the
| Heavenians"
or course we do well not 10 allow foreign
nations 10 make this country a convict
colony We would have a wall built as
high as heaven and as deep as hell against
foreign thieves, pickpockets aud anarchists.
We would not let them wipe their feet on
the map Of the outside door Castle Gar
den. II England or Russia or G rmany or
France send here their desperldoes 70 got
clear Of thom, we would have these
desperadoes sent back in chains to
the places where they came from. We
will not have America become tho
dumping place for foreign vagabondism.
But you build up wall az the NarroHs be-
fore New York harbor, or at the Golden
Gate before an Francisco, and forJid tho
coming Of the industrious aud hard rk-
ing and honest populations OF other lands
who want 10 breathe the air OF our free n-
stitutiJns and get opportunity for better
livelihood, and /. Is only question OF timo
when God will tumble that wall fiat on
our own heads with the red hot thunder
bolts Of his omnipotent indignation. You