The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-04-16
4 MORE VIGOROUS AMERI-
CANISM NEEDED
In Society, in Politics and i'm the
Education OF the Nations
Youth.
THE CHEAP IMPUDEHCE OF A GIMLEI
HEADED ITALIAN ARISToCRAT.
Free Brains, Free Boys, Free Schools
the BulWarks of The Nation.
NEW YORK, April ~, '9I.

Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., Pastor of
the Twenty-Third Street Baptist
Church, preceded his sermon this
morning, at Association dali, by the
following review of Current Events:
The nation is one Of the instru-
ments chosen OF God through which
the redemption If the race is to be
wrought. Our Bible is the literary
record of Gods dealings with cho-
sen nation through centuries of trial
and training. Nations sin. Nations
are punished. God threatened to
take away from the chosen people
their divine inheritance and "give it
unto a natio;. bringing forth the
fruits thereof" He did take it
away. He holds the nation respon-
sible for the development of nation
al life as the individual il held re-
spOnsible for the development of
character. Men reap what they sow.
Nations reap what they SOW.
| believe God has specially chosen
the American nation the outermost
limit to which the star Of empire
can go in its Western movement,
completing the cycle Of the ages. /
believe he has chosen this nation TO
lead the hosts Of freedom and truth |
in the last pitched battle with the
wrongs, traditions, superstitions,
lies and iniquities of the CID world.
We have been specially favored in
| the past. We have been watched
} and guided by Providence as mir
aculous as powerful. We have sur
. vived the most terrible war this
earth ever saw since the morning of
creaticn-a fabricai war at that, ard
yet twenty-five years after its close
we are again one people, with one
6 flag first in the hearts Of all sections,
mightier in wealth, resources, peo-
, pie and intelligence. A magnificent
:. destiny opens before us. Will we
prove equal to its opportunities ?
Will our patriotism and manhood be
equal to lis responsibilities?
> If so, it is abou: time the young
u nation were Weancd. We are about
S four hundred years old. We cut our
r eye teeth IL little over hundred years
/ ago. We have fought our mother
y time or two, made ugly faces at
n several of Our European cousins,
a aad it is about time we cut loose
d from the base Of original supply and
}: asserted distinct national individ-
If allty. We need more vigorous
Al Americanism.
9 1. We need it in society. The
effort of society swells to ape the de-
caying SO called aristOcracy Of Eu-
Is rope should be met with the eIrpha-
a. tic contempt Of every man who
If Claims an ounce of American man.
st hood. Thcso-called leaters OF Amer
t. lean society, who basely roll in The
ir dirt before. Il title stuck to some at
f. tenuated specimen Of the missing
n, link masqucrading as Il man, merit
I'd the contempt they receive from the
y, object of their worship, and the with
w ering scorn Of a free manhood and
re womanhoad. The American girl
as who marries foreign snob is a foo
ne OF such unfathonable stupidity, as
n to deserve little pity when she il
IN kicked and abused by the brute she
ut calls "My Lord" The mother wht
:, sells her own virgin daughter to thu
"a licentiou, embraces Il Il titled de
:; bauchee is meaner than the procu
49, ress who sells for money the viriu'
=" Of another woman's child. A spade
no is spade A diseased debauchee j
ey still diseased debauchee, though
re he does wear checked suit, an idi
III otic expression, single barreled eye
.er glass, and an attenuated title.
In 2. We need a wore vigorous Amer
icanisn in our education of tn
est youth Of the nation. Every effor
OF to Europeanize our public school sys
ale tenn should be resisted, as we woul'
to resist the assault of foreign iron
-ell clad il our harbor. The bulwark
lor of this nation are free brains, fire
Ike BOYS, free schools. If our schot
are system be destroyed, the foundation
nat of the Republic will surely be shah
ter Ell. We have foreign conmunl lie
for now i'm some of our States who nc
not only to refuse to conform their m'
,oh thods to the spirit Of American il
-, siitutions, but with me fury and h:
Co. tired of Old world superstitions az:
~ traditions refuse to allnw the u-c
Ia the English language the languae
~" of the nation sconstitItion and life
i'm schools that have usurpcd the +
tai functions OF ublic education.
ana 3. We need more vigorous Anne
nen ieanism in politics. Europeans ha,
ris- been busy for the past W, eks instruc
ose ing us in the principles of civil go
ons eminent. We have received II
hat startling information, by way of Il
md decaying monarchies Of Europe, tn
ave the American Constitution Is a f
but are! Thanks for the informatio
fore Some of US have long suspected tn
aid, it wa. not a perfect instrument, b
INTO we prefer to mend it in our own wa
inasmuch as we suspect that with ;
this its faults it is still better than an
;der thing yet produced in 5000 years
,nto effort across the water. We ha
MA worried along with it SO far, a
y have attained at last some degree
.h us prosperity. We have grown from
mere handful of people, struggle
rHs i'm the wilderness of the Allan
mere coast line, to a continental matte
Veen that stretches from sea to sea, a
the from eternal winter on the north
that the eternal spring on the south, c.
cor tanning g., COG 600 of people. In
9 be- meantime we have managed by ca
the fulsaving to accumulate enough ca
luds, tai to buy one half the kuOwn VOL
La hemisphere land have mol