New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-01-13
THE sCoTCH.IRIsH II AMERICA.

MEN WHO MADE THE MECKLENBURG DFCLARAHos
PRESIDENTS AND vICE-pRLsIDENrs-" AMEE.
ICA LOST BY THE IRISH KMICRANTs."
TO the Editor or The Tribune.
SIR: In regard 10 the famous Declaraton OF
Independence adopted May 80. l77j, at Charlotte.
the county seat Of Meckenburg County. Ia the colony
North Carolina impression has been created that the
ste was the work Of ScOichmen. The truth Is that they
were grandsons and greatgrandsons OF men who had
emigra from Scotland the Province OF Ulster IN tie
north OF ireland than hun lred years before In
herring the prOver5al Scotch industry, Tariff, integrity.
morality, intelligence, courage personal. political. and
religious independence. and acquiring more genial and
enthusiastic qualities from their Irish a5ocil ions and
connections. they developed into that peculiar and re-
markable race, The scOtch-Irieh Prcsnyterians"
Il Is tact not generally known that il the year $685.
soon after their establishment IN Ulster 81 hose
emgrants projected settlement in New-EnglsnG They
spoken o. by Cotton Mather a Scotch colony In
the month OF September OF That year the Easewins
sailed Loch Fergus for the Merrimac River Siih
40 passengers, including the celebrated preachers
Robert Blair, John Livingstone, James Hamilton and
john McClcand. The vessel driven back by stress
of weather and the year these ministers returned
10 Scotland whore they affiliated with the still more
famous Johnston of Warrslou and Alexander HCudcf.
SON. and became prominent In the cOmmOtions civil ard
religious which led to the subyersiOn OF the English
throne and the execution Of its treacherous occupant
Two thirds OF century later, IN consequence OF pcHe
cuiion from government which in owed us
existence TO the herOsm shown at the terrible sies' Of
Londonderry and the GROWING victory II the Boine,
the emigration from Ulster 10 this country began IN
earnest and from about the year 1920 swarm followed
swarm from the great hive, OF the emsants stop
ping in New England and NevYorl. but e greater part
passing into the upper regions of r. nnsylvanis, Nnia
and the CnToinas. From tlom have come some % ne
most eminent men, and families particularly, III 'Se
South and West or tbls stock were Gen h!laih AeA'
hgffp I.Jru
the great Clinton family at first settled II User
County New YorK and many other distinguished oErrs
AMI statesmen the Revolution, among "Dom WEI. i've
OF the sgncTs Of the Philadelphia Declaration o. d"
pondence-rhomton smith. Read, Tdy !or ana HurIse'
IL has FURNISHED three Presidents OF the United ssas
Andrew jackson James Is. POS, ana james D'eLanAt,
two Observation-Disclosures Clinton and john CaldEea
Calhoun two candidates for the Presidency the eq1
o! anN--DS Will Clinton and Horace Grte!cA s'u
Chiei-JuSticc OF the United States -John EueGs.
Jackson Polk, and Calhoun were direct represeh's'
| of the pair riots uf MecklcnDulg . ,,
IL Is nom their Scotchrls blood that Gen ho,c,as
derives his ability and Gen. Butler MS piuck hv'sn
Fulton the stock. Ii Is OF It's lace tnat Ie
dR6,rgh RcriSc for April, 1869 IN an article ou ue
| SAYS: These emigrants were tue bay ana iesOiesS
pfcsbytrlliIs VINO lOugHt bTaYoly years Atet Hs
against the British Government in tho American W.
the men NJ whom Bancroft Saws, The nrst puDie W.
| in America for d!ssOiyng all connection VIA uleT
Britain came DOT from tbs Puritans or NeN-Ehssn,,
tho Dutch NowYUrs nor tee planters VI virginia 80
from LG ScO;ch-Ir>h Prcsby toriaus They Droush
New World ciUed. the Independence, ana NE 'Vu n
OF the tOVenanters' Well might Lord MOunDo! r'
1884 that America lost Dy the irish tlnlsrah.N
Descended myself from ancestor or TINS slocA,
WAS one OF the ca Hest and bOdcst in urging on VIC
glc for Independence, hope 60 sec fy eetaol'ne"
| recognized the honor that Is duo TO our lineage
Conn, Doc. Z, 1870. ttAs. !. ASNSN1-'