The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-20

YOU, at the ballot box, in legislative
hall, in churches and everywhere be
out and out Americans. Do not try
to establish here the loose foreign Sab
baths or transcendentalism spun init, re-
Iigion OF mush and moonshine, or foreign
libertinsm or that condensation Of all thiev.
cry, scoundrelism, lust, murder and perdi-
tion which in Russia is called Nihilism 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 1sthmus
of Panama the paradise of virtue and re.
ligion.
My other word suggests what Americans
ought to do for foreigners. By ell posi-
BILE means explain to them our institutions
Coming here, the vast majority OF them know
about as much concerning Republican or
Democratic form Of government as you IN
the United States know about politics OF
Denmark or France or Italy or swift
zerland namely nothing. Explain to them
that liberty in this country means liberty TO
do right. but not liberty to do wrong.
Never in their presence say anything agalns5
their native land, for, no matter how much
they may have bsen oppressed there, in
that native land there are sacred places,
cabins or mansions around whose doors they
PLAYED, and perhaps somewhere there is
grave into which they would like, when life's
tolls are over, to be let down, for it is
mothers grave, aud it would be like
going again into the loving arms
that first held them, and against
the bosom that first pillowed them. My!
nv! how low down a man must have de-
scended to have no regard for the place
where his cradle was rocked. Don't mock
their brogue or their stumbling at.
tempts at the hardest Of oil
languages to learn. namely the
English language. | warrant tnaI ann;d tney ta1y
Scandinavian Treat them in America as
you would like to be treated if for the sake
Of your honest principles or better lyeli,
hood for yourself or your family you had
moved under the shadow of Jungfrau.
or the Rigi, or the Giants Gaus9way, eSn away
CONAN Jura. If they get homesick, 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
souls final flight is less than second whether
from the beach OF the Caspian Sea or the
banks of Lake Erie. Evangelize their adults
through the churches and their chill
dren through the schools and let home
missions and tract societies and the Bible
| translated in all the languages OF these for
eign people have full swing.
Rejoice as Christian patriots that instead
| of being an element Of weakness the foreign
people thoroughly evangelical will be our
Imightiest defence against all the world. The
| Congress Of the United States recently ordered
built new forts all up and down our Ameri-
| can coasts, and a new navy is about to be
! projected. But let me say that three hun
| dred million dollars expended in coast de-
Tense will not bs so mighty as vast foreign
/ dreds Of thousands OF Germans in New
| York, Germany would as soon think Of
bombsheing Berlin as attacking us. With
hundreds of thousands Of Frencnu1en in New
| York, France would as soon think OF firing
on Paris. With hundreds Of thousands OF
Englishmen in New York, England would
rs soon think of destroying LONDON.
pean nations is wall of Europeans
reaching all up and down tho American con-
| tnent, O wall of heads and hearts conse.
Grated to free government. bulwark OF
foreign humanity heavei up all along our
shores, re.enforced by the Atlantic Ocean.
armed as it is with temptests and Caribbean
whirlwinds and giant billows ready to fling
mountains from their catapault, we need as a
| nation fear no one in the universe 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 sheaves of our harvest fields
the fruits of our orchards the fabrics Of our
manufactures, the telescopes OF observa.
tories, the volumes of our libraries the songs
Of our churches, the affections of our hearts
and all our lakes become baptlsmal
fonts and all our mountains altars OF praise
and all our valleys amphitheatres OF wor'
ship, and our country, having become hfty
| nations consolidated into one, may It's every
heart throb bs pulsation Of gratitude to
| Him who made sof one blood all nations
and ransomed that blood by the payment or
the last drop of His own.
In a Demons Power.
The physiological secret of that progress
| siyeness Of all stimulant passions, says Dr.
| Oswald, in the oice, is the gradual increase
| IF the depressing reaction, which lnfallioly
follows every abnormal irritation or the ner-
vous system. The jaded nerves fail TO re-
spond to the spur of the wonted stlmulus:
while a mere and more irksome depression OF
tho vital spirit prompts the patient to relieve
| his torpor at any price-tco often the price
| of lifelong bondage, clinched by more COM
plete surrender to the power OF the demon
| whose caressing embrace only secures d
| lirmer hold upon the throat OF his Vlctlm.
Mild stimulants soon become insipid, and by
degrees positively dstasteful, to the moro
and more decided appetite for stronger stlmu-
lants. The increasing exorblcsnce OF that
appetite thus not only constitutes constant
| temptat On to worSs excuses, buC also pre-
vents the topper from retracing his steps on
the road to ruin.
There is, in that respect, curious analogy
between the influence Of moral and pbyslcal
stlmuants Tho chief objection to rnlnd-
en.laving passions is. perhaps, not their d.
rect temptation to acts of recklesSness. but
! the circumstance that their influence TENDS TO
| annul tie attractivenesS OF less eScitng en-
| ioyments. The historian Lecky. IN his re-
iiections upon the moral alterations OF pagan
| Rome, traces the decline Of art and harmless
Measures to the indirect influence OF the
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customed to witness the fierce vicissitudes OF
! deadly combat he says. ANY spectacle
that did not elicit the strongest excitement
was insipid. The idealized suffering OF the
stage became unimpresSive to those VINO
| were habituated to the intense realism OF the
amphithea atre. All tho genius OF Siddons
or q Ristori would fail to move an audience
who had continually seen living men fall
bleeding and mangled at their feet"
The "TreatinSh Custom.
A bill has been introduced in the Pennsyl-
vania Legislature making it penal oitence
for any person to treat another with lntoLl.
eating LIQUOR. II such law q, this could
be enacted and enforced, it would do away
with a vast amount Of intemperance Proba-
bly, nine tenths OF the victims Of strong
drink are drawn into the liquor habit by the
custom of treating. It il an idea quite Pc,
culiar to America, that the spirit OF good
fellowship and fraternal feeling finds its
] readiest and fullest expression in a call for
drinks for the crowd" 1t is quite gen.
orally regarded as mark Of generous
nature for a man to invite his friends to
muddle their brains with some vile decoction
of the drink shops. and an indication
of a mean and petty spirit to refuse
such invitations. TIE treating Gus
tom is, in short, one OF the
| most subtle and powerful devices employed
by Satan to lure men to destruction, but we
doubt very much whether the custom can be
directly legslated out OF existence. The re-