The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-03-19
A GREAT RACE.

The Third Annual Meeting Of the SCOTCH
Irish Society to be Held In Louisville.
The third annual session Of the Scotch
Irish Society Of America will be held at
Louisville, Ky, May 14lh, 18th and 10th.
This is expected to be the most inter
esting meeting the association has held
and a large attendance is anticipated.
Elaborate preparations are being made
nv the people Of this beautiful Ken
lucky city, whose hospitality Is q BY
word, and those who attend the Oon'
gress will be made welcome. Kentucky
Il Scotch.Irish State. Its pioneers
were Of this blood and great maiortty
Of the great men It has produced are OF
this intrepid race, and 10 prove this one
need only mention the Lincolns, the
Prestons, the Breckinridges, the Becks
and the Wattersone.
The impression obtains in some quar-:
ters that tho Scotch.Irish Society Of
America has q foreign incentive, which
impression has been inimical to larger
membership. This Is q serious error,
and 1t Is hard TO understand how s1cn
an impression can prevail alter the ire:
ouent announcements OF the objects Of
the society. It Is thoroughly American.
The great majority Of the members are
descendants ot Revolutionary soldiers,
and the one great object OF the organi!a'
ton ia not TO keep in memory the MS:
tory OF any foreign country, although al
people have tender feeling for the soil
upon which were born their ancestors,
but TO perpetuate the achievements OF
scoteh.IEishmen as Americans. AS has
often been said, the Scotch. Irish made
the history Of America, while the Puri'
tan wrote 1t, with the result that the
Scotch. Irish as race has not until re-
cent years been given the least credit.
Individuals Of the race stand out In bold
relief in American history, but how
many readers know the race from which
these great men-soldiers, statesmen,
scholars, inventors, divines-drew their
bloodP How often do We read in bio.
graphical sketches that the subjects
were OF good old Puritan stock" how
seldom Is the fact mentioned in the bio
Rrsphy OF SCotch.I rishman that he was
Of this blood2 The scotch'1rish fathers
cared papght for credits achievement
was their aim. BRt their descendants
remembering the adage that the son who
does not reverence an honored ancestry
deserves not the reverence OF honorable
progeny, have taken the pen in hand and
from the data gathered by the organiza.
tion, which IL the inspiration Of Col. T.
7, Wright, OF Tennessee, will preserve
| in ink the history Of the race In America
tho history OF the race that made
Amerira. Before the formation OF this
society how many people knew that
Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, An
drew Jackson, George Rogers CLARK,
Abraham Lincoln and U. s. Grant, the
most prominent men in American his.
tory, were Of this raee2 All Americana!
In answer to the question as to what
men had had the most potent influence
In shaping the destinies ofthe American
| Republie theRp would be named.
It was George Rogers CLARK, THE
Hannibal OF the West,M and his Scotch.
Irish soldiers from the Valley Of Wiz.
Vinia who wrested She Northwest Terri
tory from the English Grown, and thus
set the Canadian limo on Lake Erie In
stead Of the Ohio river