Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-07-22

dered it in English, namely: $50 mote it be-
1t is used in address by man to his Maker
and by Him to US, and accordingly, as usee
by either, differs somewhat in application, a
must be evident. For man makes favors anc
God bestows them; God makes promises anc
man pleads for them. When man says amen
he claims the Divine assurance /; when Goo
says amen, He confirms it.
THE SCOTCH.IRISH IN THE CAR0LINAS
At the celebration of the 150th anniver
sary of the settlement of the Cumberland
Valley, Pa, on the 9th instant, at Doubling
Gap Springs, Rev. J. w. p. OTIS, pastor Of
the Chambers Presbyterian Church in Phila
delphia, read paper upon the subject oI
"The Pennsylvania Scotch-1rish in the Caro-
linas."
Rev. Mr.. Otis, after referring to the fact Of
his being South Carolinian by birth and a
Pennsylvania by residence, and eulogizing
the Scotch. Irish for their enterprise and thrift
said Let us go back as near to the begin,
ming as we can, and we will find out that the
Scotch-Irish were first lrish-Scotchmen and
then Scotch-Irishmen. In the third century
the Scots migrated through Northeastern
Europe, by Belgium and the North of France,
and settled in Ireland The Scots were, there.
fore, Irishmen before they settled in Scot
land, and Irishmen they remained for 300
years. 1t was in the sixth century that the
European Scots went from Ireland into Gale,
donia and there subjugated the Scots, and
founded kingdom. Thenceforward, Gale
donia was the land it remains till the present
day.
About the middle of the sixteenth century
King James con6scated the lands of several
Irish mobiles in the North of Ireland, who
had conspired against his government The
north of Ireland was thus re.peopled with
Scottish colonies in the sixteenth century.
Thus, after the lapse of nearly thousand
years, the Scots, whom Ireland gave to Gale
donia of old, came back to occupy their an
cestral homes, and the Irish Scots now be-
came the Scotch-Irish.
About the beginning Of the eighteenth cen.
tury the English Government began to do
all that was possible to suppress the Scotch
Irish in the north of Ireland. Then it was
that the Scotch Irish began to emigrate in
large numbers to Pennsylvania. These emf.
grants landed principally at New Castle, Del
aware, and at Philadelphia. During this
period, from about 1718 to 1876, large settle
ments of Scotch. Irish we're made in Chester,
Lancaster, York and Cumberland counties !;
and Pennsylvania owes much Of what she is
to day to the fact that so many Of these peo
pie settled in her borders. The first public
voice in America for dissolving all connec.
ton with Great Britain, says Bancroft, came
from the Scotch.Irish Presbyterians. A large
number of them were signers of the Declara
ton of Independence, and throughout the
Revolution they were devoted to the cause of
the country.
The upper part of South Carolina is full of
Pennsylvania Scotch-Irish, that is, Of Scots
who came from Scotland, to the north of Ire
land, and from Ireland into this State. The
line of emigration from Pennsylvania was
through the Kittatinny Valley, west of the
Susquebanna, to the Potomac, and through
the valley of the Shenandoah, southwark
Irish settlers were left all along the line of
emigration, and many of them made their
way into the Cumberland Valley, into Ken
lucky and Tennessee.
The speaker then referred to those who
went into the upper counties of South Caro-
lima and said /: "Here you have your Lam
caster, York and Chester counties, and we
have in South Carolina our Lancaster, York
and Chester counties, all of whose earlier set
tiers were Pennsylvanians, Scotch.Irish, who
gave the names of the counties from which
they emigrated to the region in which they
settled. These counties at the first covered
the districts which are now known by the
names of Union, Spartanburg, Newberry and
Laurens. Lancaster was first settled in 1749.
In 1854 and 1856 a colony of Scotch-Irish
from Pennsylvania, who had lived under the
ministry Of Rev. Mr.. Cathcart, settled on
Browns creek, in what is now known as
Union county, and founded church to
which they gave the name of Union, the
name of the church to which they belonged
in Pennsylvania. This was the mother
church"
In concluding his address the reverend
gentleman said: "There is no better blood in
the United States nor anywhere else, and the
Scotch. Irish are better and greater people
in this country than in Scotland or Ireland,
for here alone they have fair field and
full scope for the free and unimpeded devel-
opment of their inward capacities and posi-.
bilities. They are plucky, pushing and
persistent people. They have will of their
own, and when they want to 60 forward, if
they do not find way, they make way for
themselves. The Pennsylvania Dutch know
how to mind their own business, and to let
other peoples business alone; in doing so
they keep out of trouble; the tch.lrish
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 are descendants of these noble, self
willed, strong and valiant Scotch.Irish,
people always to be held dear as friends and
dreaded as enemies, should never forget to
pray the prayer of the old Scotch elder, who
prayed, "Good Lord, always keep me in the
right, for ye ken, Lord, that when l gang
wrang l am unco hard to turn"
HOW MUCH A DOG MAY KNOW.
In lecture on Animal Intelligence, de-
livered not long since before the British Asso-
citation, Prof George T. Romanes laid down
the extraordinary proposition that "the only
difference between animal intelligence consists