The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-08-06
THE sCOTCH.lRIsH STOCK.


TICS OF a STRONG PEOPLE.
At the celebration of the 15Oth anniver.
sary OF the settlement of the Cumberland
Nally, Pa, on the Sth instant, at Doubling
Gap Springs, Rev. j. w. p. Otis, pastor OF
the Chambers Presbyterian Church in Phil.
adelphia, read paper upon the subject of
"Ihe Pennsylvania Scotch Irish in the Car.
olinas"
Rev. Mr. OTIS, after referring to the
fact Of his being South Caroliuian by
birth and a Pennsylvania by residence,
and culogizing 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
fnrstslriSn. and then .Scotebs IslslIs
men. In the third century the Scots mi-
grated through North. eastern Europe by
Belgium and the North of France, and set
tied in ireland. The Scots were, there
fore, 1risbmcn before they settled in Scot
land, and lrislmcn they remained for 300
years 1t was in the sixth CENTURY that the
European Scots went from Ireland into Cal,
cdonia, and there subjugated the Scots and
founded kingdom Thcncctorward, Gale
donia was the land it rcmaius until the
present day.
| About the middle Of the sixteenth century
l\inS James conhscatcd the lands of several
Irish mobiles in the North of Ireland. who
consplred against his government. The North
OF Ireland was thus rc.pcoplcd with Scottish
colonies in the sixteenth century Thus,
after the lapse of nearly a thousand years the
Scots whom Ireland gave to Caledonia of
Old, came back to occupy their ancestral
homes, and 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
Scotch Irish in the North of Ireland Then
it was that the Scotch Irish began to cm.
crate in large numbers to Pennsylvania.
These curigrants landed principally at New
Castle, Delaware. and at Philadelphia Dur
ing this period, from about IT'S 20 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 publ voice in America for dissnlvinc
all connection with Great Britain. says Ban
croft, came from the Scotch-Irish prcshy.
| 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 IrcIand, and from ireland into ms Srnroc-
The line of emigration from PENNSYLVANIA
was through the kittatinny Valley. West Of
| the Susquchanna, to the Potomac, and
through the valley of the Shenandoah,
southward. 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 referred to those who
went into the upper counties of South Car.
"iina and said" Here you have your Ian.
easter, York and Chester Counties, all Of
whose earlier settlers wcrC pcnnsylvanians,
Scotch Irish, who gave the names of the
counties from which they cmi grated 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, Ncwbcrry and Laurcns. Lam
caster was first settled in l749. In 1854
and l755 colony of ScotchIrish from
Pennsylvania who had lived under the min.
stry Of Rev. Mr.. Ca,hcart, settled OH
Browns Creek, in what is now known as
Union County, and founded church to
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name of the church to which they belonged
in Pennsylvania. This was the mother
church"
In concluding Lis address the reverend
gentleman said "Therc is no better blood
in the United States nor anywhere else,
and the Scotch>lrish are a better and
greater people in this conntry than in Scot
land or in Ireland, for here alone they have
fair field and II full scope for the free and
unimpcded development of their inward
capacities and possibilities. They are a
plucky, pushing and persistent people.
They have will of .hcir own, and when
they 90 forward, if they do not find way,
they make IA way for themselves. The
Pennsylvania Dutch know how to mind
their own business, and to let other pco.
pies business Hi0,ic 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. lftney 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 descendants Of these noble, self
wlllcJ, strong aud valiant Scotch Irish, a
people always to be held dear as friends and
dreaded rs enemies, should never forget to
pray the prayer vi the old Scotch elder, who
prayed, "Good Lord, always keep me in the
right, for ye ken, Lord that then | gang
wrang | am unco hard to turn
y consumptivc looking man. lame and
feeble and carrying a pint bottle full If
something, halted a pedestrian and said -