The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-05-22

FROM the mOmo 1t that, on an OCTOBER
morning In 1892, Columbus looked
over the side Of the ship and saw the
carved staff which made him think he
| was near an Inhabited country, and
/ saw also thorn and a cluster OF ber-
ries type of our history ever since,
the piercing sorrows and cluster of ma
tional joys), until this hour our coun-
| try has been bounded on the north,
south, east and west by the goodness
of God. The Huguenots took posses
sion of the Carolinas, in the name of
God. William Penn settled Philadel-
/ phia In the name of God. The Hol-
landers took possession of New York
In the name of God. The Pilgrim
| Fathers settled ia New England. in
the name of God. Preceding the first
gun of Bunker Hill, at the voice of
prayer all heads uncovered. In the
war Of 1912, an officer came to Gen.
Andrew jackson and said: There is
an unusual noise in the camp; it ought
| to be stopped" Gen. jackson said,
at is the voice of prayer and praise.
Then the general said, GOD
forbid that prayer and praise
should be an unusual noise IN
the encampment. You had better go
and join them" Prayer at Valley
Forge. Prayer at Monmouth. Prayer
at Atlanta. Prayer at South Mountain.
Prayer at Gettysburg. ''Ohr says
some infidel, ''the northern people
prayed on one side and the southern
people prayed on the other side, and
SO it did not amount to anything"
And l have heard good Christian
people COMPOUNDED with the in
| fidel statement, when it is as
plain to me as my right hand. Yes;
the northern people prayed in one way,
and the southern people prayed in an
other way, and God answered in His
own way, giving to the north the re-
establishment of the government, and
| giving to the south larger opportuni-
ties, larger than she had ever antici-
pated the Harvesting of her rivers in
great manufacturing interests, un-
til the Mobile and the Talla-
poosa and the Chattahoochee are
southern Merrimacs, and the
unrolling of great southern mines of
ccal and iron, Of which the world knew
nothing, and opening before her OPP
portunities of wealth which will give
| 90 per cent, more of aff1uenee than she
ever possessed; and instead of the
black hands of American slaves, there
are the more Industrious black hands
of the coal and iron mines of the south,
which are achieving for her fabulous
and unimagined wealth.
/ take step further and say that be-
fore the gavels of our senate and house
of representative and our political
| conventions pound adjournment there
ought to be passed law or adopted
plank of Intelligent helpfulness for the
great foreign populations which are
coming among us. 1t is too late now
to discuss whether we had better let
them come. They are here. They
are coming this moment through
ment taking the first full in
halation of the free air of Amer
lea. And they will continue to come
as long as this country is the best place
to live in. You might as we'll pass a
law prohibiting summer b. IS from
alighting on a field of blossoming buck
wheat; you might as well prohibit the
stays of the noun tain from coming
down to the deer-licks, as to prohibit
the hunger-bitten nations of Europe
from coming to this land of bread-as to
prohibit the people of England. Ireland,
Scotland, Italy, Norwar, Sweden and
Germany working the.-selve to death
on small wages on the other side OF
the sea, from coming to this land
where there are the largest compen-
sations under the sun. Why did God
spread out the prairies of the Dakotas
and roll the precious ores into Colora-
do? 1t was that all the earth might
come and pillow, and come and
dig. Just as long as tho
centrifugal force of foreign
despotisms throw them off, just SO
long will the cintripetal force of Amer
lean institutions draw them here. And
that is what is going to make this the
mightest nation on the earth, inter-
marriage of nationalities! Not circle
intermarrying circle, and nation inter-
marrying nation. But it is going to bq
Italian and Norwegian, Russia and
Celt, Scotch and French, English
and American. The American of
hundred years from now is to be diff
ferent from the American of to-day.
German brain, Irish wit, French civil.
| ity. Stotch firmness, English loyalty,
Italian aesthetics packed into one man,
and he an American! 1t is this inter-
marriage of nationalities that is going
to make the American nation the
greatest nation of the age.
There are three great reasons why
you and l should do out best for this
country-three great reasons; Our
fathers graves, our cradle, our chill
dren's birthright. When 1 say your
fathers graves, your pulses run quick
ly. Whether they sleep in city ceme-
terry or country graveyard, their dust
is very precious to you. l think
they lived well and that they
died right Never submit to
have any government over their
tombs other than that government
under which they lived and died. And
then this country is our cradle. It
may have rocked us very roughly, but
it was a good cradle to be rocked in.
Oh, how much we owe to it, Our boys
hood and girlhood, it was spent in this
blessed country. l never have any
patience with a man who talks against
this country. Glorious place to be
born in, and a glorious place to live in.
1t has been our cradle. Aye! it is to be
our children's birthright. You and
will soon be through. We will, per-
haps, see few more spring blossoms,
and we will perhaps, see few more