New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-12-01


be challenged TO produce scotchman who cannot read
write ana cipher and cipher we'll too and who knows
Just where the balance lies and to whom IL belongs
For the education OF their children the poorest scotch
family VIII suffer privation They may starye. but
shrewd prudent, peaceabe, conscientious in the DIS
charge OF duty TO degree and above all other RACES
Scottish race of 100000. as is ACKNOWLEDGED
by al, has produced effect upon the world winch
number, can pretend 70 lay claim TO. Npplansel
Every Sco,ehman is two Scotchmen a7s land mas the
wha, barren stern crags ana mountain PEAKS aSun1
which teHIpess blow, ana also tho smiling valleys Deow
Where the wildrose the fox6!ove and the bnele bios,
SOM 50 the Scotsman. with bis rugged force and haa
Intellect In his head above has heart below capable
Of being touched 70 the finest Issues sen,imenia,
about him from his Celtic blood. which gives him fire.
nc Is the most no. poetic being alive Poetry n ana iSn
age o. poetry and song ard romance as e e T o bar no
GAIN and argue With you to the last; touch his heart
and he falls upon your breast such is the Scot as we
hnq An nm S a5 sS@ Applause Ies traits when h. settles
in this future home Of our raee-the EIish-
braclng effect OF our political Institutions founded upon
the royalty Of man. and guieened BY climate Tal G
and mind what part has be PLAYED from the American
side Ct his history Sir, we have heard great deal
1ag and trust b to hear mo Of the land Sr we I'VE hs
name OF man must have-s country 10 live for; If need
= Who made the American iNa;Ioni A little more
than century ago what was the american!
other Nation. lie was nothing higher. nothing bet
TER than Canadian. man without country,
&sG SF' Bss &4R qEs Voice S for
dissolvng all connection .wlth Great Britain came
Of New-York. or the planters OF Virginia. but
from the scotch Presbyterians OF North Carolina
Inc great claims Of the Puritans; Of the Virginia
planters gladly admitted and to the Dutch OF New
the part they played hut these 5ices only followed the
first voice crying aloud 70 the poor degraded cooniSts
main work for centuries was the maintenance Of the
England. The same grca' task devOlved upon The
scot here II is the mission of the true Scot ever 70
liberty and Independence. and in any struggle for
Liberty G our Place lace is IN the the YAM And t when this
declaration signed no less than six OF these great
Sesed c ve c a% aGd them a qd
honor The part that orr race plaYed in The Rev
0tonsry struggle taken In eonP oG wiz r Gr
Of race Of heroes. Whenever the Scot goes he cannot
I'VE without county me deVeOpment OF me % ans MS
inoradicable yearning for country Of his own II
INDEPENDENT feowcl citizens 10 follow him and create
one. lie found this Colony, and he summoned IT TO
rise and become Nation. CApphuse)
ANOTHER VALUABLE SERVICE
There was another service which be rendered
to this country, second only, IL II be second
10 giving to it the original idea OF independ
cnce. The most remarkable political work known to
man is admittedly the Constitution of the United
States 1t is the universal charter Of political gov
eminent MT. Gladstone himself has proclaimed 1t
the greatest political work that was ever struck of ut
one time by the brain and purpose Of man, Lord
Salisbury and many Conservative leaders are now ex-
tolling its rare deeds. Who gave that inestimable
charter to this country That Constitution is sub
stantialy the work Of race, the scotchAmerican
Alexander Hamilton. No Other single influence, nor
perhaps all other influences combined, in the making
Of this great instruments were so potent as the con16p
tion o; thai one Scotcl-Amtrica tApphusel VT PIeS
dent is entitled TO share the rich heTitnge OF
the great Republic We stand here as q rsh by virtue
Of The share-the large share-we took IN the Lakkng
OF America We are Joint pr0prietors here: SIR !uSt
Ms we ind difficulty in ergdtng one human 9tan
with all that we find IN Shakespeare, IL Is dmcut 70
credit the makers Of he American Constitution with
a full knowledge Of the merits OF their WORK. Ihey
buiided wiser much wiser, than they knew. D@sshsa
Tor three millions Of people. occupying ne hlnge OF
the Atlantic seaboard, it has been found capable OF
Radical in the extreme, founded upon thu equality OF
the citizen and yet most conservative in its PROVISIONS
the Aus ralian Constitutional Convention; tApplaus2.l
Wherever an Ens56'pe$h1E t 'o I'm gH'' even
Inc motherIaEd Itself year BIZ year, irrespective o.
the party that may be in power whether you eau u
siiintians HARMONY with that great work OF
S tha rdeo0 nma pE a % i IS
founded upon Justice and equally ana IL. Pncip pee
throughout the world. lAppauseJ -. -. ,o,
Mr.. President and gentlemen, we al near Huch
tompt 10 band together the minority leaving out the
majority OF the English speaking race. THIS pnla'e
is rapidly passing away, and giving place 10 what
may venture 10 claim Is nOber conception, the
Of the entFe race each OF the three
great branches, the British the Australian and Tie
American, including Scotland, Canada, merged in
the union, TO bc perfectly independent: these three
branches, cemcntcd by an alliance which year afer
year, generation after general1on must assume closer
and closer forms, by increased speed Of communlca
ton the parts and nearer To each other
This idea is beginning to take root. ! haye ALREADY
been told that three distinguished Enghslmen
have recently declared that if ii were necessary to It's
realization that Scotland, England Ireland ana
Wales were 10 become states OF the American Union,
they were PREPARED for this. because the us certain
10 flow from such q confederation were such as 10
Justify any change Of form. sir, great orator Is
10 follow Inc ana spak OF the destiny Of our adopted
country This idea pOstuatcs rs that destiny that
our adopted country adopt all other EnglisS packing
communities under the ample folds Of the American
Constitutions Of which Webster said that, although Ii
had doubled over and again. they had not OutTun
It's benefits or It's protection. Neither would the scat
tered portions Of the EnglshsPeaking race, II all EN-
braced within its folds exhaust It's benefits or tts
protection. Such confederation would hold in It's
hand the destnies and the peace OF the world. IL
could Danish humantys deepest disgrace, the murler
Of men under Tho name OF war; saying To any dis
turbers q the peace
" Hold, l command You both!
:" The that StTs makes me his foe.
Unfold 10 ne the OF quarrel
4" And will judge betviXt yOu.' tApplauseD
not n sword would be drawn, not IL shot
fred if the English speaking people unitedy say nav
shall! be told this IS wild dream that the man VINO