The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-07-27

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Belgium and tho North of France, and
settled in Ireland, The Scots we're:
therefore, Irishmen before they settled
in Scotland, and Irishmen $they re-
manned for 800 years. 1t was, IN the
sixth century that the European Scots
won't from Ireland into Caledonia and
there subjugated tho Scots, and found
cd Kingdom. Thenceforward, Gale.
donia was the land it remains till tho
present day.
About the middle of the sixtcentli
century. King james confscated tho
lands of several Irish mobiles in tho
North Of Ireland, who had conspircd
against his government. The north of
Ireland was thus re-pcopled with
Scottish colonies in tho sixteenth cen
tpry. THUS, after lapse of nearly u
thousand years, tho Scots, whom Ire
land gave to Caledonia Of DID,. came
back to occupy their ancestral homes,
and the Irish-Scots itow bccdmo tho
ScotCli-Irish. .>.
hbouttho beginning Of the oightconth
cciitury the EugiisI Government be-.
gan to do all that was possible to sup
press the Scotch-Irish in the ncrth of
Ireland. Then it was that the Scotch
Irish begaff TO emigratc IN large num-
bcrs to Pen's sylvania. These cmigrants
, landed principally at New Castle, Della
ware, and Phila clphia: During this
period, from about 1918 to 1876, largo
settlements Of Scotch Irish were made
in Chester, Lancaster, York and Cum
bcrland counties; and Pennsylvania
owes much Of what she is to-day to
the fact that SO many Of these pcoDlc
~
tic voice in America for dissOlving all
connection with Great Britain, saws
Bancroft, came from the Scotch-Irish
Prcsbytcrians. A large number of
them were signcts Of the Declaration
of Independence; and throughout the
, Revolution they were devoted to the
cause Of the country.
Tho upper part Of South Carolina is
full of Pennsylvania Scotch-Irish, that
is, ofScots who came from Scotland,
to the north of Ireland, and from Ire
land into this State. The line of emi-
grafton from Pennsylvania was through
the Kittatinny Valley, west of tho
Snsquehanna, to the Potomac; and
through the valley Of the Shenandoah,
southwark. Irish settlers were left ali
along the line of emigration, and many
Of them made their way into the Cum
berland Valley, into kentucky and
Tennessee.
The speaker then referred to those
who went into the upper counties of
South Carolina and said: "Herc you
have your Lancaster, York and Ches.
ter counties, and we have in South
Carolina our Lancaster, York and
Chester counties, all Of whose earlier
settlers were Pennsylvanians, Scotch
Irish, who gave the names Of the coun-
ties from which they cmigrated to tho
region in which they settled. These
counties at the first covered the dis
| tricts which arc now known by the
names of Union, Spartanburg,- Now
berry and Laurens. Lancaster was
first settled in 1749. In 1904 and 1856
q colony Of Scotch-Irish from Penn
sylvania, who had lived under tho
ministry Of Rev. Mr.. Cathcart, settled
on Browns Creek, in what is now
known as Union county, and founded
q church to which they gave the namo
Of Union, the name Of the church to
which they belonged in Pennsylvania.
This was the mother church.
Imconcluding his address the rover
end gentleman said: "rhcre is no bet
ter blood i'll the United States nor any
where else, and the Scotch-Irish arc a
better and a greater people in this
country than in Scotland or Ireland;
for here alone they have fair field
and a full scope for the free and unim-
peded development. of. their. inward
capacities and possibilities. They arc
aplucky, pushing and persistent pco-
pie. They have will Of their own,
and when they want to go forward,
if they do not find 4 way, they. make o
way for themselves: The PGnhsyl-
vania Dutch know how to mind their
own business, and to let other peoples
business alone; in doing so they keep
out Of trouble; the Scotch-Irish know
how to mind their own business, but
they do not always know how to let
other peoples business alone. If they
think that the other mans business is
wrong they will interfere; they will
not tolerate the wrong in friend or
foe, and in this way they sometimes
get themselves into trouble, but when
they do get into trouble they stand
and fight. All we who arc descend
ants. of these noble, self-wilTed, strong
and valiant Scotch-lrish, a people al
ways to be held dear as friends and
dreaded as enemies, should never for
get, to pray the prayer of the old
Scotch elder, who prayed, "Good
i. Lord, always keep inc in the right, for
3 yc ken, Lord > that when 1 gang wrang
am nnco hard to turn"
"A man arrived in Lcadville with q
white shirt on, few days ago, and
the governor had to put the city under
martial law at once.