Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-05-22


where spread the while tents,
And there are plows in the track where the
war wagons went,
And there are songs where they lifted VI
Rachers lament.
Oh. YOU are q stupid man If you do moi
understand how God answered Abraham
Ijncoln's PRAYER in the White House, and
StonewaIl Jackson's prayer in the saddle
and answered all the prayers OF all ths
cathedrals on both sides of Mason aud
Dixon's line! Gods country all the way
past, Gods country now Put HIS name III
your pronunclamentos. Put bis name
on YOUR ensigns! Put His name on your
city and state and national enterprises! Put
His name ia your hearts. We cannot sleep
we'll the last sleep until we are assured that
the God of our American institutions i'll the
past will be thu God of our American lnstltu-
lions in the DAYS that ale to come. On,
when all the rivers that empty into Atlantic
an 4 Pacific seas shall pull on factory Dandsi
when all the great mines OF gold and silver
and iron and coal shall be laid bare for the
nation; when the last swamp shall be re-
claimed, and the last jungle cleared. and the
last American desert Edenized, and from sea
10 sea the continent shall be occupied Dy
more than 1,2OO, 000, 900 souls. may it be
we're multiplied In more rapid ratio than the
population. And then there shall be four
doxologies coming from north and south
and east and west, four doxologies rolling
toward each other and meeting midcon-
tinent with such dash Of holy JOY that they
shall mount to the throne:
An1 heavens high arch resound again
With peace on earth, COOL will to men.
Itake step farther and say that before
the gavels of our senate and house OF repre-
sentatives and our political convention:
pound adjournment there ought to be passed
a law or adopted plank OF intelligent help
fulness for the great foreign population!
which are coming among us. 1t Is too late
low to discuss whether we had better LEI
them come. They are here. They are coming
this moment through the Narrows. They are
this moment taking the first full inhalation
| OF the free air of America. And they viii
continued come as long as this country is th'
| best place to live in.
You might as we'll pass law prohibiting
summer bees from alighting on field o.
| poisoning buckwneai; you might as vel
prohibit the stays OF the mountqins froI
coming down to the deer lick. as to prohibit
the hunger bitten nations Of Europe from
coming to this land of bread-as to prohibl
| the people OF England. ireland. Scotland
Italy, Norway, Sweden anu Germany Work
ing themselves to death on small wages OF
the other side the sea-from coming to thi
land where there are the largest compensa
lions under the sun. Why did God sprea
out the prairies of the Dakotas and roll tn
precious ore into Colorado2 1t was that a
the earth might come and pillow. and com
and dig. Just as long as the centrifuga
70 zee OF foreign despotisms throws them o.
lust so long will the centripetal force Q
American institutions draw them here. An
chat is what is going to make this tn
mightest nation on the earth. IntermaJ
riage of nationalities, not circle intermarry
ing circle and nation jRtsrmarrying nation