The Morning herald., 1876-02-21
WILMINGTON, FEBRUARY q, lS'
THE SCOTCH IRISH.

wv ..~,a. THE SCOTCH IRISH. au & |
. 4 These words are frequently used with
eat rejection, and frequently in . saunt'
inn wav d # it was sispecial privilege to
have sprung from the ioins Of such a race
81 people. A more meaningless term car
hardly be conceived than Scotch irish
Some time ago in a conversation with d!ll..
prominent gentleman Of this city, he sald
.'my scotch-Irishs blood boiled, &c"
''Your what" ws queried-why your
name, your temperament, your physioe
nomy, all bespeak a southwestern Celt-
from Glare, Kerry or Limerick. "4ou'
Ireligion;.' he wasa PRESBYTERIAN, "has leo
you into he use Of this scotch-lrish can't
He reflected moment and said, sSirc
you make me think about 1T rernember
hearing my grandfather say he was borf
in the county Of Limerick" The thrift
order and rather stern habits Of the person
we mention, enyrafted however, upon
thoroughly Irish nature, we have no deuo
has been often ascribed to his Scotch.
Irish blood" Who invented the termwe
know not, but we do know that it Is no.
' knownin in Ireland; and there are 10 such
. people there. 3s1i na O.. t4. ss b.-'r@
= To beein-There has been no immigra-
'stion Of natives Of Scotland into ireland for
two hundred and forty years. save the oc-
casional settling Of one for business pur-
poses. There never was as large an imnli-
grafton Of natives of Scotland into Ireland
a. there has been natives of England
into the eastern and midland counties Of
Ireland. The French Huguenot element
Dublin, Or the Spanish in Galway, have
/, zen quite as large as the Scotch, into
Antrim, Down, and Derry, three coun.
tiss, the con6scaiien Of James I. embraced,
and unto which the Scotch settlers came.
Yet we never hear of the "English-Irish,"
the "French-Irish," nor the Spanish
Irish" and contessedly the English set
tiers in ireland have been twenty times
more numerous than the Scotch. We are
ofopinion that the French, who came after
the revocation of the edict of Nantes, and
founded the Silk, Tabinet, Poplin, and
Muslin manufactures Of Dublin were as
numerous as the Scotch settlers in the
North, and has left larger impress upon
ireland than the Scotch. Yet to talk in
Dublin Of La Touche, L. Note, Deve-
reuse, Huguenot and many other such, as
"French-Irish' would be to create laugh
Of derision, and yet it has as much reason
and meaning. if not more in it, than t.er:
+ In the term Scotch. Irish"
% lfthe Scotch had at any time overrun
ireland, instead Of being settlers in three
counties, in eash Of which, taking religion
a. indicative Of ancestry, their descendants
are not more than fourth of the people to-
day; while in the rest Of Ireland they are q
tenth part; and il the flood Of emigration
had been mighty for the past two Gen.
turies, instead Of dribbling rivulet, from
the seat Of the Scotch settlement in Ire
land to this country, there would be som'
show Of reason, in talking Of the "Scotcl
Irish" We have often speculated why
the phrase was invented here, as it is ut
terly unknown in Ireland-and can only
attribute it to the old time British hatree
Of every thing 1rish-that unwittingly ha
injected itself into our popular phraseolo
gy, refusing to do justice to the tcemip'
country, that has given to the Republi
fully one half Of our forty millions {
citizens. ...-- ..7l.'"
How ID that We never hear anything c
the descendants Of the "Scottish Gael" i
this lanl-of the lnen who gave to tn
world, wallace, Bruce, Burns. Scot
Campbell; yea, a host Of worthless to ever
department Of Literature, science, art an
adventure, whose contests for na,iona
freedom are among.t the suuniest page
OF history? Can it be, that temporar
planting upon Irish soil, gave to tn
"Gael" such extraordinary virtues, as
! be transmsseble f,r centuries, creamin
mp a. Scotch 1rish," alike in the vallie
Of Pennsylvania and Virginia, the n,onr
tain slopes Of the CaroIioas, and the hroa
prsigiy, Of The Mississippi valley? Ifs
there must have been wonderful writes
either, the Irish women they married.,
the potatoss,or possibly tna us4Neo ga It