The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-05-20


pie prayed on one side and the south
ern people prayed on the other side,
and so it did not amount to anything"
And have heard good Christian people
confounded with the infdel statement
when it is as plain to me as my right
hand. Yes, the northern people pray
ed in one way and the southern peo-
pie prayed in another way, and God
answered in his own way, giving to
the north the re- establishment Of the
government and giving to the south
larger opportunities, larger than she
had ever anticipated, the harnesslng
OF her rivers in great manufacturing
interests, until the Mobile and the
Tallapoosa and the Chattahoochee are
southern Merrimacs, and the unroll-
ing of great southern mines of coal
ara iron, of which the world knew
nothing, and opening before her op-
portunities of wealth which will give
80 per cent more of affiuence 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 tlnimagined wealth.
And there are domes of willie blossoms
where spread tn whiFe tents,
And there are plows in the track where the
war wagons went,
And there are songs where they lifted up
Rachers lament.
Oh, yor. are stupid man if you do
not understand how God answered
Abraham Lincoln's prayer 10 the
White House and Stonewall Jackson S
prayer in the saddle, and answered all
the cathedrals on both sides OF Mason
and Dickson line. Gods country all
the way past, Gods country now
Put his name in your pronunc'amen-
tos; put his name on your enslgns,
put his name on your city and state
and national enterprises; put his name
in your hearts. We cannot sleep well
the last sleep until We are assured that
the God OF our American institutions
in the past will be the God Of our
American institutions in the days that
are to come. Oh, when all the rivers
that empty into Atlantic and Pacific
seas shall pull on factory bands;
when all the great mines OF gold and
silver ana iron and coal shall be laid
bare for the nation; when the last
swamp shall be reclaimed, and the last
jungle cleared, and the last American
desert Edenized, and from sea to sea
the continent shall be occupied by
more than 1900, 600, 900 souls, may 1t
be found that moral and religious in
fuences were multiplied in more rap
ID ratio than the population. And
then there shall be four doxologies
coming from north and south and east
and west, four doxologies rolling to-
ward each other and meeting mldcon-
tinent with such dash of holy Joy
that they shall mount tn throne.
Ard heavens high arch resound again
With peace on earth, good will 10 men.
take step farther and say that
before the gavels Of cur senate and
house of Representatives and our pollt-
ical conventions pound adjournment
there ought to be passed law or adopt
ed 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 the
Narrows. They are this moment TAX
ing the first full inhalation Of the free
air of America. And they will con-
tinue to come as long as this country
is the best place to live in.
You might as well pass law pro
hibiting summer bees from allghtlng
on field of blossoming buckwheat,
you might as we'll prohibit the stays OF
the mountain from coming down to the
derrick, as to prohibit the hunger
bitten nations of Europe from coming
to this land of bread, as to prohibit
the people of England, Ireland, Scot
land, Italy, Norway, Sweden and
Germany, working themselves to
death on small wages on the other
side the sea, from coming to this land,
where there are the largest compensa-
tons under the sun. Why did God
spread out the prairies Of the Dakotas
and roll the precious ore into Colora-
do? It was that all the earth might
come and plow and come and dig.
Just as long as the centrifugal force
of foreign despotism throw them off
lust so long will the centripetal force Of
American institutions draw them here.
And that is what is going to make this
the mightiest nation on the earth. In
termarriage of nationalities. Not cir
Gle, intermarrying circle. and nation
intermarrying nation. But it is going
to be Italian and Norwegian, Russian
and Celt, Scotch and French, English
and American. The American of 100
wears from now is to be different from
the American of today. German brain,
Irish wit, French civility, Scotch firm,
ness, English loyalty, Italian aesthetics
packed into one man, and he an AmerI-
can 1t is this intermarriage OF nation
alities that in going to make the Amer
lean nation the greatest nation Of the
ages. But what are we doing fer the
moral and intellectual culture Of the
500, 900 foreigners who came IN one
year, and the 100000 who came in
another year, and the 100000 who
came in another year, and the l,OO0,-
600 who are coming into our various
American portsl What are we doing
for them2 Well, we are doing a 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 get ashore. We are doing
a great deal for them. But what are
we doing 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 the United States; many of them
have no acquaintance with our laws.
Now, I say. let the government OF
the United States so commanded by
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