Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-01
COMING OF THE CAMPBELLS.
A HEARTY OVATION RENDERED THE Gov
ERNoR OF OHIO.

He Addresses a Large Audience at the
Morning Session of the Congress-HIs
Notes on the Scotch-Irish of Ohio-A
Paper by DIR. White.
After the President left Mechanical Hall
the congress was called to order by Presi-
dent Bonner. Prayer was said by Rev. DR..
Ferguson, President of Westminster Col
lege. Mr.. Bonner then introduced Governor
James E. Campbell, of Ohio The Governor
is above medium height and trim in figure.
He was neatly dressed in dark graz his coat
being cutaway. He is bald, and the top
of his head was very red. His eyes are
keen and fash with humor. His mustache
is small and growing gray. His voice is not
very strong, but is pleasant and clear.
Governor Campbell was given a long ap-
plause by hand-clapping. Many people
hammered on the floor with their heels and
few cheered. He explained that at Cleve-
land, on FRIDAY, he had been on horseback,
and was so often compelled to raise his hat
to the beautiful women along the line of
procession that the sun bllstered the top of
his head.
GOVERNOR CAMPBELL'S REMARKS
He read from typewriter manuscript,
his subject being "The Scotch Irish in Ohio
and the Northwest Territory" He noted
that the race had never received credit in
history for what it had done in Ohio, though
other nationalities who settled that State
had copious records. He then re-
ferred to the accomplishments in Ohio
and the Northwest of CAPTAIN James
Rogers Clark, the Scotch-Irish explorer.
whom some historian had called ''The Ham
nibaI of the Northwest" The Scotch-Irish
entered Ohio by two lines, one by Pennsyl-
vania and New York and the other from
Virginia and the Carolinas. Arthur St.
Clair, a Scotch-Irishman, was made the
first Governor of Ohio under President
Washington. He said the Scotch-Irish
Governors OF Ohio were in the majority.
The race gave IL Justices to the Supreme
Court and many Congressmen, from William
McMillen to William Mckinley. he said:
"NO Presidential Cabinet has been complete
without Scotch-Irish member from Ohio"
The Governor then referred to the Ulster
theologians, artists, journalists, scientists
and soldiers OF the Buckeye State, and
concluded:
COULDN'T LEAVE ANY OUT.
81 know that to those of the audience who
are not Ohioans, all these details are neces-
sarily little tedious. Bnt also know the
Ohio Scotch-Irish, and il omit any of their
grand fathers or great-grandfathers I can't
go back across the Ohio river, according to
programme"
Rev. DR.. Henry Alexander White, Pro-
fessor of History in the Washington and
Lee University OF Virginia, read paper on
the history OF that institution, and the work
of the Scotch-Irish in the Old Dominion,
BE said it was at Bethel Church. Va, in
1TS5, that the Presbyterians uttered a
protest against the support of religion by
civil taxation, which led to the separation
OF Church and State in this country. To
that protest 10000 names were signed and
1t was presented to the General Assemble
The bill for taxation to support the Churcb
was defeated, and a few months later the
General Assembly enacted religious free
dom. After this paper the society took re-
cess until evening.