The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1899-02-09

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is this difference however in II
species. Some men are as much III
like some other men, as a Berkshii
hog, is unlike the razorback, or
pointer dog unlike a knock knee
bench legged fee. 1t is differenc
Of Llood-oi breeding, and ought t
forever put quietus upon that oil
fallacy that all men are born free an
equal. they are no more equal tina
the crooked tailed flee is equal to tn
y pointer, or the Italian grey hound
Well. group Of Americans are a
much superior to a group OF Span'sI
degenerates. as the pointer to thu
hce-a thoroughbred race horse to
jackass. They are superior to any 0
their bastard Fillipinos Malay, Mo
hammedan, heather Chinee, OF VIVA
not. We don't want them. W.
don't want to get the faint of thei
blood in our citizenship. We dom
want to revolutionize our system OF
government. We don't want to pay
taxes to keep up standing army
In fact we want the efete monarchies
OF the old world to "shinny" on Their
own side Of the Pond. There is a 10,
OF talk about the old wagon road our
fathers used behind, and a great
broad, modern, macadam road in
front of us. Yes, there it is. But
that old wagon road in the past has
been ample for our needs. True it
has been cut up here and there by
internal dissensions, but it has ever
been a safe road to travel. There are
no ragged precipices along its sides,
no internimable mountains, no I'M
known, unseen dangers to encounter
All is plain. Not 50 with this new
road decked out in all it's glittering
paraphernalia. 1t is beset with
dangers, and its unknown precipe-
ces, and abysses are yawning to re-
ceive the unsophisticated traveller.
Destiny 1t is not destiny. Our
destiny was and is to build fabric of
in the western world, !
where liberty and where freedom shall !
thrive and blossom as the rose; where |
the warm blood OF genius, basking in |
Inc God like rays of its PERPETUAL sun
'hall thrive and not stiffle in its
,irth-where the painters brush shall
)e called into action. aud the Wielder
,ut rival the productions of the great
'haiasians-where the cold marble
night be chiSelled in cOmmemoration
# an age more grand, more lasting,
nd of the deeds Of the founders, by
eaven born inspirations, as to wake
be silent ashes OF the immortal
lppeliees. The world moves on. Bnt I
loses and Solomon have never been {
in statesmenship-not even
y the expansioniNts of to-day. |
heir doctrines We're founded upon Q
thermal development, first last and J.
L the time 1t is a law Of f
ations-the very frst-that each "
Iould preserve and perfect itself. t
grows out of the first law Of bu-
an natnre-Seh protection and e
'dieS Of people-nations are com S
'sed Of individuals, acting from a 81
mmOn motive, influenced largely h
: environment. Our fathers estab- fl
,hed a government which has stood II
e test OF time. Our people have al
armed to love it, its traditions, and d,
cir fondest hopes are for its pre-. ii
rvatlon in its pristine purity. No I'll
Ms for conquest to mar the bril- ne
ncy Of its history. No foreign as
lants on its shares; but true to
nercan citizenship, loving the va
ld because it is their own and an
'rnlng to give aught other reason sh
y" This continent is big enough ma
us. We have internal questions HI
settle of sufficient importance for no
expanding minds OF our expand pi!
politicians. Ii We want to annex sta
ritory let us endeavor by peaceful DIV
ans to get Canada and the South of
lerican States. We could do this ito
hcut running counter to the Mon VIII
Doctrine. But to that ancient the
emit of our faith; that doctrine tswc
ch was handed down as a price did
heritage for us, and for genera do,
IS yet unborn. let us cling until VIII
last star Of our galaxy ShaIsss "a the
forever N the whirl Of BfoGay III
,lution. lfa
hen, when ike wretcl Il as
nee, the fever OF anarchy ana u exp
luton shall have run its course mel
II the Orgie is o'er-and the goo
antics have gone to their death hyp
way Of the guillotine, upon the for
milling ruins of our wreck, we teri
build anew, but the old fabric upo
have passed into history. and in iani
place, well, God only knows step
1t, Col. L., don't get sleep:
. some more ''roachment" fresh A
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