The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-03-22

spicuOuS in ,the descendants AQW.-f giC
were their notions of &mily discipline
how watGhNfioy dftte wallEs and 'conver
sation Of. their church eh6mbership, how
little they favored amuscments ot any
kind among old or y0ungs1lfiSs %
MI c, next spokeo their record in tht
North Of ireland, which was In Scotland
the record gNthe Protestant ReloEmetton
He referred 10 chi, famous, siege, Of Lon.
tlonderfy, where seven thousand men kept
at,bay The troOpS 0f, the Qethropel King
JamS md slowed wllat terrible famine
thcy endure i6f their faiths sake, so much
so that during that seigC tho bone Of o car.
cass sold at last for fabulous price, and
tho starved and leCeasea defndeEa qe the
city were ScSrcc. able 70 nurse tho sick OF
bury tho dead. .And yet they would not
surrender, fOF, their religion lay very near
their hearts. Macaulay, the historian
speaks Of that memorial siege rs contest
between two kpds Of blood and two kinds
Of Civilization, and victory resulted ia
those who, though Inferior in numbers,
were superior in their capacity for self:
goyanhient sndsilrtheirBtu u6bOrness. OF
resolution. .usadS
lie then alluded To tho battle of tho
Boync. where the lPriuce Of Orange met
and overthrcw james, and thus ended on
the soil of ireland, and in the Scotch Irish
province Of Ulster, its long struggle be.
tween tile old and new religion in Great
Britain. .. !. "a
lie smoke Of the chronic misgOvelnment
thatlhad deharacterized tie sEng glish rnle In
ireland $Ssliow cd how this IniSmanagc'
ment Ind driven out the Scotch Prcsby-
tcrians ana other dissGnters, by its test
oAths and acts Of, uniformity, and also by
It's discrimination against Irish trade. In
the time Of Queen, Anne, nc, one who did
not RECEIVE the sacrament aocotdmg tothG
established Church, was allowed to hold
any office oripubllc ip1siton-the conse-
gucnce Of such en0ctments was that the
Scotch Irish grew weary OF their opprcs,
sion, and great numbers Of them concluded
to quit L soil that as Bancroft says, was
cndcarcd 10 them by no associations, and
on. which they had been. but soiourners, rs
Il we're; and accordingly they came over
and settled in several OF the then colonies,
especially in New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Virginia, North aud South, Carolina and
TaSisinna SiiiitN TIN J N1JT!i.t q .
The colony OF YIN. Penn attracted their
attention on account Of Its excellent gov
crnmcnL and they soon became numerous
in the eastern part of the State, especially
in the counties Of Bucks, Chester, Lancas-
ter. York and in the Cumberland Valley.
Az carly as BrAddocks' defeat in 1865, they
had made some settlements In Western
Pennsylvania, and they continued TO In.
crease rlp to and during the revolutionary
war. They were nClrly all attached TO
some form OF the Presbyterian taith.
Among their early ministers In this region
were tue Rev. James Power, Rev. ThAd-
deus Dod, Rev. John MAIillan, and Rev.
Joseph Smith. The latter was the first
pastor Of Buffalo church, having received
call 10 preach hero and at Cross Creek
in 1770. The two congregations agreed to
nay him $50 per annum in Continental
currency, Mt that time very little better
than Confederate money In tho third year
OF the rebellion, and they engaged to make
It worth what 1t was five years previous,
to tue end, as they expressed 1t, that their
plst6r mightTig freed from Membranes,
and have suilICieMcy Of tho good things
Of life. Mr.. Smith established n school ut
Buffalo church for the education Of young
men for the ministry that is said to have
finally develops into Car ponsbu1g College
ThG RevS.' M. Dod was tho Principal Of
IN Academy At the then village Of Wash
ingt6n, that afterwards was merged Into
Washington College. .tr'..I ,,:,p;!
MIC. quoted Bancroft as authority, for
saying that the first public expression IN
ilvor Of separation from Great Britain
came not from tho Puritans Of Now Eng.
land, the Dutch Of New York, or the
planters ofVfrginla, hut from the Scotch
Irish Pres6yterianS He, quoted the pro-
ccedings Of. meetings that were held at
Carlisle in this State, and ut Abigdon VIZ.
glnia, I'M both i6f which the Scotch Irish
element wps largely predominant,
He also quoted from some other writer
nm entertaining account oil early times and
manners in this country. Tho people llHtl
to work very hartl in those days, and Ind
very little education and few or no books.
The EatguertR9lt lis boys 'wotStl IN the
GnrS.' tnr0 n,,SnioJ % ~ % honacSolJ Iutics which
!S's !S 10 I'se ,s,i.iot sD;nD;n% UooviM% "nd mnk.
! sC I"tLuuc tl1o oTo'b"S fE IL" SSmiIv These
were not tho lhys OF tailors ant niantu4
makers. In hearty every cabin you could
hear the loom. Social. gatherings were
y, NJ ~ IJS rd;";nSS" % ,Iustirs F1oiirS2 n,ltings
~ ioS ~ E;nrS d"Sa fI,csc ,TSfserinGs
tl" ,ho ,,6,n, "pC nconfc cniovcd themseiVes IN n
s.,s,: !nJ "usts So.t y S yov TIerc wHs not much
sGy =, W ri T.bS NJ Ks, II t1rcss ~ mabnSr J M
Wy aS ,,."s "iIo%ssd n MT on airs on account
o!I H WIS, WIZ SI,"oS ;TsteSi nT moccHsins md
oi, O1 H a,,nrH1t" S ot disnISv wore regSrded viii
Ja .I;,S,,.,S %,.it1 EkISS ISS SIMON skhullz's
",s,"s ,,yo ot,onnin" rod haired German rirls an:
,,"srs,i r"U s[ ~ RoS Mos"ievs frolic on The Pr.