The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-19
"A White Mans Country"
w Orelans Times-DemOcrat.

New Orelans Times-Democrat. What does the Rev. Newell Dwight Hills, the pastor of Plymouth Church in
 BroC klyn, N. Y, mean when he nplores Almighty God that the American people | may be saved from this new and damn able heresy that holds that this tthe United States) is a white mans coun- try"
 Does the reverend gentleman really be- lieve that the idea that this is white
 mans country is heresy? And If he be- lieves it to be heresy, what authority
 can he quote to prove that there heresy is either "damable' or new"
 Does not Dr. Hills know that, ruled by his standard, the greatest and purest
 and noblest men of this country have been "heretics?'
 Let us call the roll of these ''damnablc hel etics"-the old as well as the new. There are Higglnson and Winthrop and Standish in New England-men who bray ed the periis of the ocean and the forest to rescue freedom from it's fate in Europe | and plant 1t in the new-found world; and
 who, in order to win New England into the circle of civilization, drove the red
 man westward from Massachusetts. There Is George Washington, who, in his youth. courted death ''on the firing line in order to make of the American | colonies "a white mans country. | There is Thomas Jefferson, the most | democratizing influence in American life, | who said II am certain that the ne-
 groes will be free and I am equally cer-
 tain that they can never live on the same | soil on terms of political equality with | the whites"
 There is Abraham Lincoln. who eman- 1 cipated more than three million black | bondmen and who, in 1858. said: ''l am | not, nor ever have been, in favor of bring | ing about, in any way, the social and po- | litical equality of the white and black | races, I am not nor ever have been, in | favor of making voters or jurors of ne- groes, nor of qualifying them to hold of | flee, nor to intermarry with white people. There is a physical difference between | the white and black races which will | forever forbid the two races living to- gether on terms of social and political | equality, 1nasmuch as they can not so | live, while they do remain together. there must be the position of superior and in- l ferior; and l as much IS any other man, am in favor of having the superior posi- | tion assigned to the white race" There is Oliver Wendell Holmes. the | father of the newly appointed Justice of | the Supreme Court of the United States, | who, in 1855. said: No abstract principle | of benevolence can reverse the great fam | fly instinct that settles the question for | us. The Creator has hung out the colors
 that form the two rallying points so that | they shall he unmistakable, eternal; nay, | there is hardly single sense that does not bear witness to the ineffaCeable dis | tinCtion of blood. The white man must | be the master in effect, whatever he is | in namC."
 There is the countless host of soldiers | and statesmen and priests who have | preached and fought and fought and preached In order to make and to keep | this nation of ours not a nation of Afri- cans or of Mongolians or of half-breeds, but literally "a white. mans country" Heretics all--from Jamestown and Ply mouth to Fort Duqucsne, from Fort )uquesne to the Alamo. and from the Alamo to the Little Big Horn, Standish. Washington. Jefferson, Jack son. Lincoln. Bowie, Custer and Oliver | Wendell Helmes-if these be "heretics' who. then. may be called "the faithful ?'' If these men, and men like these, are to
 be damned who, pray. may hope to | see salvaton?"