The Aberdeen weekly., 1903-02-27
"a White Mans Country"

New Orlean. Times Democrat
What does the Rev. Newell
Dwight Hills, the pastor of Plym-
outh Church in Brooklyn, n. ",
mean when he implores the AL
mighty God that the American
people may be saved from this
new and damnable heresy that
holds that this (the United States)
is white mans country.
Does the reverend gentleman
really believe that the idea that
this is white mans country" is
heresy? And if he believe it to be
heresy. what authority can be
quoted to prove that the heresy is
either ''damnable" or ''new"y
Does not DIR. 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
-damnable heretics old as
well as the new.
There are Higginson and Win
throp and Standish in New Eng
land. men who braved the perils
of the ocean and the forest to res.
one freedom from its fate in Eu-
rope and plant it 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 hi. 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: Il am
certain that the negroes will be
free, and | am equally certain that
they can never live on the same
soil on terms of political equality
with the whites"
There is Abraham Lincoln, who
emancipated more than three mil
lion black bondmen, and who. in
I,o'. shio. ain upt. uoI ever
have been. in favor of bringing
about. in any way, the social and
political equality of the white and
black races. am not. nor ever
have been, in favor of making
voters or jurors of negroes, nor of
qualifying them TO hold office, nor
70 intermarry with white people.
There is physical difference be-
tween the white and black races
which will forever forbid the two
races living together on terms of
social or political equality. Inas-
much as they can not 80 live. while
they do remain together, there
, must be the position of superior
and inferior; and |, as much a.
any other man, am in favor Of hay-
ing the superior position assigned
/ to the white race"
! There is Oliver Wendell Holmes
the father OF the newly appointed
Justice of the Supreme Court oi
the United States, who, in 1850
said: NO abstract principle OF
benevolence can reverse the great
! family instinct that settles the
question for us. The Creator has
hung on. the colors that form the
two rallying points so that they
shall be unmistakabl BILE, eternal: nay
there is hardly single sense that
does not bear witness to the inef.
faceable distinction of blood. The
white man must be master in ef-
feet, whatever he is in name"
There is the countless host oi
soldiers and statesmen and priests
who have preached and fought and
fought and preached in order to
make aud TO keep this nation OF
ours not a nation of Africans or ol
Mongolians or of half-breeds. but
literally "a white mans country
Heretics all-from Jamestow n
and Plymouth TO Fort Duquesne
from Fort Duquesne to the Alamo
and from the Alamo to the Little
Big Horn,
Standish, w ashington, Jefferson,
Jackson. Lincoln. Bowie. Custer
and Oliver Wendell Holmes; 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 salvation?
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