Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-07-06

Composition of the United KingIom-Cha ter of
the Ancient Scotch-NIiIesIans-Common Origin Of
the Irish and Scotch.
The political fortunes of the Irish and Scotch to
say nothing OF their common origin, closely
blended in history that to institute invdious compar
isons between them is equally absurd and unjust It
would be work commensurate with the genius of
the bee to discuss the relative merits of the people of
Massachusetts and those of any other sister State
which has shared with her the vicissitudes of peace
and war, and expended its blood and treasure in a
common AS specimen of the fairness OF its
criticism, it remarks " No nation was ever vet long
oppressed except through its own consent; \ only
nations that have natural capacity for servltv re-
main ensaved." Yet, while censurng the Irish for
their submission to British misue, it appauds the
valor and patriotism of the Scotch, who experienced
the fate two centuries before Ireland surrender
ed her nationality. The Bee evidently shares that
prejudice against the Irish which it declares has al
ways existed in this country, and, however unj Just
no thanks will be due to that paper and its partsans
II 1t does not always exist.
Ireland, Scotland, and England, after many revolu-
tons, and centuries of independent natioral exist.
ence, were at length merged into one kingdom This
result was brought about, not by conquest of the
two former, but by diplomacy mutual concession
and compact, for the ostensibe purpose of conSoda-
ting the interests and securing the peace of three
contiguous, and regards the two latter, physical
ly inseparabe peoples. the terms of this compact
have brought them under common constitution and
form of government and while Scottish as we'll as
a Saxon dynasty has swayed the sceptre of the
united kingdom, the administrative and legislative
talent of the British empire has been largely derived
from Ireland If this union of political destinies has
not operated to the equal advantage and benefit of
the combined nations, 1t is owing to the radical de-
fects of system which, acting upon the discordant
elements of race religion, and commercial interests,
has given the widest scope to national and sectional
antpathies.
Both the Scotch and Irish descended from the
Scoto- Milesians, who settled in Ireland more than u
thousand years before the Christian They were
the most enlightened and enterprsing people of that
period, as wc shall hereafter show, ard cultivated
letters and the arts long before the dawn of Roman
civilization. Their monuments of antiquity as
numerous and authentic those of the classic ma
tons of the east whence they derived their origin,
and what is known of them, at that remote age, is
derived principally from these monuments, and their
own native animals recorded in the national az
chives of Tara; since western Europe too barba-
rous that period, to furnish any reliable history
OF cotemporaneOus events.
The Scotch and Irish were rot only originally the
people, but the former were for some centuries
a colonial dependency OF the latter. In their early
feuds with the Picts and Brtons the Scots of Alba
MIA relied entirely for assistance upon their Scotc
knsmen and allies who remained in Ireland and in
later times during the civil wars of Britain, the
north Of Ireland furnished syum for the Scottish
chiefs and their clans, who received not ex-
lies refugees, but welcomed brethren to their
home; and both the Stuart dynasty and the royal
family kindred of Bruce were lnea descendants OF
the Irish monarchs, and, in the fourteenth century
Edward, brother to Robert Bruce, crowned king
of ireland, and gained a complete victory over the
English in several important battles. When the
Stuarts succeeded to the throne of England, the
Irish we'll as Scotch submit ed to them THEN
Legitimate kings
Indeed, the people of Ireland prior to the eleventh
+ century, known to Eng land and continental
Europe only the Scott Scots. 1t was not unit
two centuries after the final destruction of the Picts
that the north of Britain received the of Scot
land and that of Ireland from Fire, Ire, the las
native queen of that isand) was substituted for SEQ
; tia. In proof of these facts, we may cite the hes
authorizes who have written upon the subject Eng
fish, Scotch and Latin, well as lrish-vide Cam
den, Usher, Heating, Buchanan, the venerable Bede
Georghegan, Johannes Ma or, Iactus Minus, Agri
cola, PoIidoe, Virgil, sc. ARGUS.