The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-02-21

wealth. The Scotch monks of Argyle,
Montrose, Athel, BuccIeuch and Fox
burg, are among the greatest owners of
land in all Britain, and the number of
wealthy families is comparatively larger
in Scotland than in England. Many of
the oldest and richest inhabitants of
Scotland arc, however, untitled. They
are sufficiently prominent without titles
Edinburg is alike remarkable for the
great number of its rich inhabitants and
for their intellectual culture, and what
makes the Scottish capital SO interesting,
is not so much the professional and lit
crary society, attractive as this is, but
rather the widespread culture among
the rich and well-to do families. The
United States are particularly indebted
to Scotland for having sent here so many
of her most energetic children. We
have Duncans. Douglasses. Campbells,
| Gordons, Hamil4ons and Efiiots, who
! perpetuate, IN this country, the Scottish
genius of their ancestors. The noblest
| types of American Womanhood are of
Scottish descent. They abound in New
England. and are scattered over other
parts of the country. OF solid minds,
they have at the same time, a certain
glow of Imagination as peculiar TO Scot
! land as to Spain: they are both practical
and imaginative :. thrifty and intelfectu-
al f; excellent wives and mothers, at the
same time women of enlarged sympa-
thies and strong religious sentiment.
The American men of Scottish descent
make their influence also felt wherever
they are. There is something more re-
fined and intellectual about them, than
about their countrymen of English de-
scent. and they are among our most in
fluential citizens. Scottish paupers are
| in great minority.
! The Scotchman has that in common
! with the Yankee that, somehow or other,
! he knows how to ward off poverty, even
under the most adverse circumstances.
Indeed, there is every reason to suppose
i that the first Yankee man ana Yankee
woman hailed originally from Scotland.
Jews are as scarce in Scotland as in Ire
land. From the latter country, they
i keep aloof. because there is no money to
be made there; and from the former,
because thew stand in awe of the supe-
rior sllrewedness of the natives. Scot
land is the only country where keeping
of the Sabbath is watched over with the
utmost stringency and rigor. Even III
Old and New England, the Sunday is
infringed upon by one or the other
class of Christian community, put moi
so in Scotland. n Sunday III EdlnDurS
or Aberdeen is truly the day OF the
i Lord. The stern eXaction of religious
i duty reflects the Scotchmans lnfieXlble
ALLEGIANCE to principle. The Sunday
there NAV be gloomy, but it Is holy
Much that is adamantinc and unpromls-
! ing in our own Puritan strength, Is mo-
n little due to this sclf-same Scottish
i element of unbending devotion to con
viction. We should be happy to see .
large proportion of Scotchmen lh1nl'
grating to this country. They are made
~ 1. l., &c, Hn N n n
people. Wherever they GO, they dlffus6
nrosperitv and industry. 1t is due tC
their colonization, that the northern
counties of Ireland are relieved from thu
misery which desolates the southern re
oions. Our own stock of Irish WoulC
be. undoubtedly, vastly improved by
strong infusion of Scotch blood ana
t liberal diffusion of Scotch thought. In
! West is particularly congenlal TO Ia
: Scotchmcn. Like all mountalncefs, II
dotcs upon independence. Tins nc mo
| in our midst to his hearts content.
/. cannot give the picturesque mountain
c his Highlands, but we can snow MN
e vast expanse of prairie land and lake
: far larger than those of Scotland. II
: Scotchman. particularly of the cultlyal
;. ed class. has taste for letters, Whlcll
e needed in this country. He never 1ol
II gets that he is countryman OF Welte
O Scott and Burns, and knows how I
= blend the pursuits of the mind wit
% those of business. He is united to I
N by strong religious and social athnltie
is and there is no one from the Old w OH
is more congenial to Americans than
biUb toned Scotchman or Scotchwoma
d We are glad, therefore. to perceive,
Dt late Scotch journals, that there is
is growing disposition in Scotland for in
I'd migration to this country. Let the
m all come. Nobody will be more We
he come than they Chicago Rep"6ttco