Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-05-22
But It Is going to be italian and Norwegian,
Russian and Calt Scotch and French, Eng

But It Is going to be italian and Norwegian,
Russian and Cet, Scotch and French, Eng
l1sh aud American.
The American Of 100 years from now Is to Do
different from the American OF to-day. Ger.
man brain. Irish wit French eivility, SCOTCH
flrmness, English loyalty, Italian Bestnetlcs
packed into one man, and he an American!
1t Is this intefmarriage of habonalities that
Is going to make the American nation tho
greatest nation of the ages But what are We
doing for the moral and intellectual culture
Of the 500 900 Foreigners Who dau1e In one
year. aud the 100000 who came Id another
year. andthe 800, 900 who came In another
year. and the 100000 who are coming into
our various American ports2 What are we
doing for them2 Well, we ara doing great
deal for them. We steal their baggage as
soon as they get here. We send them up to
a boarding house. where the least they lose
Is their money. We swindle them within ten
minutes after they got ashore. We dre doing
a great deal for them. But what are we do
ing to introduce them into the duties OF
good citizenship? Many OF them never
saw ballot box MANY of them never heard
of the constitution of tho United States.
Many of them have no acquaintance WIN
our laws. Now, l say, Ter the government OF
the United States, 50 oohnan1e1 by one
political party or both political parties give
TO every Immigrant Who lands here volume,
In good type and we'll bouni Tor iong usaSee
"a volume containing the Declaration OF
Independence, the constitution OF the United
States and O chapter on the spirit OF our
government Let there be such DOCK on
the shelf OF every freq library In America
While the American Bible society puts INTO
he right hand OF eyerv immigrant copy o.
the Holy Scriptures, let the government OF
the United States, commanded by some po-
lltical party put into the left hand OF every
immigrant q volume instructing him ID
the duties of good citizenship. Inere are
thousands OF Foreigners in this land VINO
need to learn that the ballot box IS not
footstool, but @ throne--not something to
tlIt your foot on, but something to bow
before.
But whether members Of the national leg
islai,tre. OF delegates to ons Of the national
conventions, or private citizens, let US cultl-
yate Christian patriotism. Oh, how good
God has been TO us as nation! Just open
the map of the continent and see bow 1t Is
shaped for ir1measurabe properties. Nav
liable rivers, more In number and greater
than of any other land. rolling down Oh al
sides into tbs sea, prophesying large manu-
factories and easy commerce. Look at the
great ranges of mountains, tmbered with
with wealth underneath. One hundred and
eighty thousand square miles OF coal! One
hundred aud eighty thousand square miles
of iropt The iron 20 pry out the c0al. Tn9
coal to forge aud smelt the iron. The land
so contoured that extreme weather hardly
ever lasts more than three days-extrema
heat or extreme cod. Climate for the
most part bracing and favorable for
Drawn and brain. All fruits. All min
erals. All harvests. Scenery displaying au'
tumnal pageantry that no land on earth pre-
tends TO rival No South American earth
ouakes. No s .otch mists. No English logs.
No egyptian plaques. The people OF the
Jelited States are happier than any people
on earth. 1t is the testimony ri every mau
that has travelled abroad. For the poor more
sympathy! For the industrious more oppor-
tunityl oh, how good God was to our fathers
and how good God has been to us and cur
children To Him blessed be His glorious
name To Him of cross and triumph be con-
secrated the United States OF America!
There arc three great reasons why you ana
should do our best for this country-three
great reasons: Our fathers graves, our cradle
our children's birthrlght. When l say your
fathers graves, your pulses run quickly.
Whether they sleep in city cemetery or coun-
trv graveyard theft duss is very precious TO
YOU. think they lived we'll and that they
died right. Never submit to have any gov
eminent over their tombs other than thar
government under which they lived ana
died. And then this country is our cradle.
It may have rocked us very roughly. Dut II
was q good cradle to be rocked H.. On, now
much we owe 10 it! Our boyhood ana gIri--
hood. It was spent in this blessed country. !
never have any patience with a man who
talks against this country Glorious
nlacs 10 be born in and glorious
place TO live in. 1t has been our
cradle. Ave. 1t Is to be our children 8
hirthright You and will soon be through.
We will perhaps see a few moro spring
blossoms, and we will perhaps see a few
more summer harvests, and we will perhaps
gather a few more autumna fruits, put we
are to hand this government to our children
ne il was handed to us-a free land, happy
land. Christian land. They are not to be
trampled by despotism. They are net to ps
frightened by anarchists. We must hand
this government to them over the ballot box,
over the school desk, over the church altar,
as we have received it and charge them
soIemnly to put their life between it and any
keen stroke that would destroy it.
And Thou. Lord God Almighty, we put,
with a thousand armed prayer, into Thy pro.
lection this nationl Remember our fathers
bleeding feet at Valley Forge. Remember
Marion and Kosciusko. Remember the cold.
and the hunger. and the long march, and the
fever hospital Remember the fearful charge
at Bunker Hill. Remember Lexington, ana
Yorktown, and Kings Mountain, and Gettys-
burg. Remember Perrys battle on the lake,
and Hampton Roads, whore the Cumberland
went down. Remember Washingtons prayer
nv the camp fire. Remember Plymouth
Rock and the landing amid the sayages ne
member Independence Hall and how much
il cost our fathers to sign their names. ke'
member all the blood and tears of three wars
-177G. 1912. 1885,. Aud more than all'
remember the groan that was might
fer than all other groans, and the
thirst that stung worse than all 9th
er thirsts, and the death that was ghastller
than all other deaths-the mount on which
Jesus died to make all men happy and Tree
For the sake of all this human and divine
sacrifice. O God, protect this nation! And
whatsoever would blot it on aud whosoeveI
would strike it down. and whosoever would
turn his back, let him be accursed
Go home to-day in high hopes OF the
future. The eternal God is on the side OIL
this nation. Our brightest days are yet tc
come.
He hath sounded forth the trumpet that vii
never call retreat,
He Is sitting out the hearts of men before the
Judgment seat
Re swift. my soul, to answer Him, be jubllant
my feet Our God is marching on