The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-08-06
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AT the celebration of the 15Oth anniyer.
sary OF the settlement OF the Cumberland
Vally, Pa, on the 9Th instant, at Doubling
Gap Springs, Rev. j. w. p. Otis, pastor Of
the Chambers Presbyterian Church in Phil.
adeiphla, read paper upon the subject of
"Ihe Pennsylvania Scotch Irish in the Car.
oliDas."
Rev. MIR. OTIS, after referring to the
tact OF his being South Carolnian by
birth and Pennsylvania by residence.
and eulogizing the Scotch Irish for their
enterprise and thrift, said Let us 90
back as near to the beginning as We can and
we will find out that the Scotch. Irish were
ERrsssaEs h.neplcnmen ana Then, ,aGateh IEislls.
men. In the third century the Scots I'M iii.<'
grated through North. eastern Europe, by
Belgium and the North of France, and set
tied in ireland. The Scots we're, there
fore, lrisbmcn before they settled in Scot
land. and Irislmen they remained for 300
years. 1t was in tho sixth cyntury that the
European Scots went from Ireland into CAL
edonia, and there subjugated the Scots and
founded kingdom Thcnccforward, Gale.
donia was the land it rcmaius until the
present day.
About the middle of the sixteenth century
klnS James cou6scatcd the lands of several
Irish mobiles in the North of Ireland. who
conspired against his government. The North
OF ireland was thus re, ,pcoplcd with Scottish
colonies in the sixteenth century Thus.
after the lapse of nearly a thousand wears the
Scots whom Ireland gave to Caledonia of
old, came back to occupy their ancestral
homes, aud the Irish Scots now became the
Scotch Irish
About the beginning of the eighteenth
century the English Government began to
do all that was possible to suppress the
Scotc ch-lrish in the North of Ireland. Then
it was that the Scotch Irish began to cm.
CRATE In large numbers to Pennsylvania.
These eurlgrants landed principally at New
Castle, Delaware, aud at Philadelphia. Dur.
ing this period, from about IT'S to 1876,
large settlements of Scotch. Irish were made
In Chester, Lancaster, York and Cumber-
land Counties; and Pennsylvania owes much
OF what she is to-day to the fact that so MANY
OF these people settled in her borders. The
first public voice in America for dissolvinr
all connection with Great Britain. says Ban
croft, came from the Scotch-Irish prcsby
tcrians.
The upper part Of South Carolina is full
OF Pennsylvania Scotch Irish, that is, Of
Scots who came from Scotland, to the North
OF frcianu, and from IrcIand into inns SynIo-s
The line of emigration from PENNSYLVANIA
was through the kttatinny Valley, West Of
the Susquehanna, to the Potomac, and
through the valley of tho Shenandoah,
southwark Irish settlers were left all along
the line OF emigration, aud many of them
made their way into the Cumberland Valley,
into Kentucky and Tennessee.
The speaker then rcforcd to those who
went iuto the upper counties of South Car.
olina aud said :" Here you have your Ian.
caster, York and Chester Countess all of
whose earlier settlers were Pennsylvanians,
Scotch-lrish, who gave the names of the
counties from which they cmigrated to the
region in which they settled. These coun-
ties at the first covered the districts which
are now known by the names of Union,
Spartanburg, Newberry and Laurcns. Lam
caster was first settled in 1749. In 1854
and 1855 a colony of Scotch Irish from
Pennsylvania who had lived under the min.
istry of Rev. Mr.. Calhcart, 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 Lis address the reverend
gentleman said "There is no better blood
In the United States nor anywhere else,
and tho Scotch>lrish are better and
greater people in this conntry than in Scot
land or in Ireland, for here alone they have
fair field and full scope for the free and
unimpeded development of their inward
capacities and possibilities. They are
plucky, pushing and persistent people.
They have will of .heir own, and when
they go forward, if they do not iud q way,
they make way for themselves The
Pennsylvania Dutch know how to mind
their own business, and to let other peo.
pies 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. Iftney 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 nuble, self.
willed, strong aud valiant Scotch Irish, a
people always to be held dear as friends and
dreadea>as enemies, should never forget to
pray the prayer of the old Scotch elder, who
ItPrayed, "Good Lord, always keep me- in the
right, for ye ken, Lord, that then / gang
wrang am unco hard to turn"
|
A consumptive looking man, lame and
feeble and carrying pint bottle full of
something, halted pedestrian and said -
81 found this bottle on the corner back
there and wish yon'd tell me what, in