The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-05-29

war wagons wont,
And thore are songs whore they lifted up
lAohela lament
Oh you ara "a stupid man a you do not
understand how God answered Abraham
LlncoIna prayer In the White House, and
AtonoWul Jnouon'a prayer in tho saddle,
and answered all the prayers of an tbs
/ rathedmls on both sides Of Mason and
DiKon'a line, Gods country 40 the way
past. Gods country noWl Put His name in
your pronunciamcntos. Put HIS name
on your ensigns Put His name on your
city aud state aud national enterprises Put
His namo in your hearts We cannot sleep
well the last sleep until we are assured that
| the God of our American institutions IN the
past win be the God of our American instltu-
| tons in the days that mo 20 come. Oh,
whom all the riyon thai empty into Atlantic
ana Pacific seas shall pull on factory bands;
when an the great mines OF gold and silver
and iron and coal shall bo laid bare for the
nation. when the last swamp shall be re-
claimed, and the last Jungle cleared. and the
last American desert Edonzed, and from sea
90 sea the continent shall DO occupied by
more than 1900. 900, 900 souls, may Il be-
found that moral and religious influences
were multiplied ia more rapid ratio than the
population. And then there shall be four
| dOX0l0gies coming from north and south
and east and west, four doxOogies rolling
toward each other and meeting mideon-
tinent with such dash OF holy Joy that they
shall mount 20 the throne,
And heavens high arch resound again
With peace on earth, good viii 10 men.
take n step farther and say that before
the gavels OF our senate and house OF repre-
sentatives and cur political conventions
| pound adjournment there ought TO be- passed
. "a n nH Il "a UI ~ HaI
fuiness for the great foreign populations
which are coming among us. II Is too late
now to discuss whether we had better lot
them come They are here They are coming
| this moment through the NarrOws Theynre
this moment taking the frst full inhalation
Of the free MIR Of America. And they viii
continue 10 come as long as this country Is the
best place to live in.
Yop might as we'll pass n law prohibiting
summer bees from alighting on a field Of
| poisoning buckwheat; you might as well
1 prohibit the stays OF the mountains from
coming down 10 the deer lick. as to prohibit
! the hunger bitten nations of Europe from
| coming 20 this land OF brea1-as to prohibit
| the people OF England, ireland, Scotland,
| Italy. Norway. Sweden and Germany work
| ing 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
/ ont the pruiries of the Dakotas and roll the
| precious ore into Colorado2 1t was that all
/ the earth might come and pillow. and come
/ and die. just as long as the centrifugal
( force Of foreign despotisms throws them of
! just 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. Intermar-
rage OF nationahties, not circle intermarry-
/ ing circle and nation intarmarrying nation.
/ But 1t Is going TO DO italian and Norwegian,
/ Russian and Celt, Scotch and French, Eng
/ lish and American.
The American OF 100 years from now Is to DO
! different from the American of to-day. Ger
man brain. Irish wit, French civility, Scotch
/ firmness, English loyalty, italian aesthetics
! packed into one man, and he an American!
| 1t is this intermarriage OF nationalities that
| is going to make the American nation the
! greatest nation Of the ages. But what are we
! doing for the moral and intellectual culture
Of the 500, 900 foreigners who came in one
/ year, and the 600,00 who came in another
| year, and the 800 600 who came in another
/ year, and the LOCO, 900 who are coming into
our various American ports? What are we
| doing for them? Well, we are doing great
| deal for them. We steal their baggage as
soon as they get here. We send them up to
a boarding house, whore the least they lose
/ is their money. We swindlethem within ten
minutes after they got ashore. We are 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 the United States.
Many Of them have no acquaintance with
our laws. Now, l say let the government Of
the United States, 80 commanded by one
! political party or both political parties, give
to every immigrant who lands here a volume,
! in good type and well bound for long usage
"a volume containing the Declaration Of
Independence, the constitution OF the United
| States and q chapter on the spirit Of our
| government. Let there be such book on
the shelf of every free library in America.
While the American Bible society puts into
the right hand of every immigrant a copy Of
the Holy Scriptures, let the government Of
the United States, commanded by some po-
litical party, put into the left hand Of every
! immigrant a volume instructing him in
the duties of good citizenship. There are
thousands OF foreigners in this land who
need to learn that the ballot box Is not a
! footstool, but a throne-not something to
put your foot on, but something to bow
before.
But whether members OF the national leg
islature. or delegates to one of the national
conventions, or private citizens. let us culti-
vate Christian patriotism Oh, how good
God has been to us as O nation! just open
! the map Of the continent and see how 1t Is
shaped for immeasurable properties Nav
igable rivers, more in number and greater
than OF any other land, rolling down Oh all
sides into the sea, prophesying large manu-
factories and easy commerce. Look at the
great ranges of mountains. timbered with
wealth on the top and sides and metalled
with wealth underneath. One hundred and
| eighty thousand square miles of coal! One
hundred aud eighty thousand square miles
of iron The ironto pry out the coal. The
coal to forge aud smelt the iron. The land
so contoured that extreme weather hardly
ever lasts more than three days-extreme
heat or extreme cold. Climate for the
most part bracing and favorable for
Drawn and brain. All fruits All min
erals. All harvests. Scenery displaying aus
tumnal pageantry that no land on earth pre-
tends to rival No South American earth
quakes. No Scotch mists. No English fogs.
No Egyptian plaques. The people Of the
United States are happier than any people
on earth, 1t is the testimony IF every man