Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-03
THE SCOTCH-AMERICAN.

LIE COUICn-AMLhlOhN
For Him Andrew Carnegie Claims the
| Credit Of Our Independent Nationality
| Tho Union of the Two Races Forms
the Most Perfect People Yet Evolved.
In responding to the toast OF The
Scotch-American" at the annual dinner Of
the st. Andrews Society in New York. An
| drew Carnegie, among other things, said;
This is indeed the age Of instantan eous
photography. appear before you tonight
commissioned to kodak, develop and finish
the Scotsman at home in four minutes, in
four minutes more to picture him in Amer
| lea, and in two minutes more to celebrate
the union OF the two varieties and place De-
| fore you the ideal. character OF the world,
| the best flower in the garden, the first prize
'chrysanthemum, the eScotch-American. Gen
| tlemen, no race pure in blood has ever
amounted to anything, either in the human
| or in the lower varieties of the animal king
dom. The Briton sings Saxon and Dane,
Norman and Celt are we.' The American is
great chiefly because he is q conglomerate
of all the races of Europe. For the improve
ment OF q race we must have cross.
Taken by himself the Scotsman's qualities
| give him high place; taken by himself the
American Is also in the front; but 1t Is only
| through their union that the browning
mercy mas been bestowed upon the world,
and perfection at last attained in the new
| variety known as the Scotch American, who
in himself combines in one perfect whole
the best qualities and all the virtues of both
ana stands before the world shining for all,
the sole possessor of these united talents,
] traits, characteristics and virtues, rare in
| their several excellencies and wonderful in
| their combination.
"The result of lack of fusion between the
| races is seen in the royal families OF Eu-
| rope, most of whom are diseased, many
weak-minded and not few imbecile, and
none OF them good for much. The nobiltties
| OF the continent show the operation OF the
same law, and the aristocracy of Britain has
been preserved from equal depreciation
only by the wise fusion which Is constantly
| going on between the different classes of
| our parent land We must have these mix
lures If we are to live and improve; but the
greatest and hest of all these that ever was
made is the union between the Scot and the
American.
The Scots Love for Liberty.
-"What are the elemental traits of the
Scot? Two are prominent: An ine1tingu1sh-
able love of liberty, both civil and religious,
and passion for education. Before he was
educated, away back before the days OF Ban
| nockburn, in the days of Wallace and Bruce,
Embedded in the Scotsman lay the instinct
of freedom and Independence; he was born
to be neither slave nor sycophant; he would
have liberty If he had to fight for it. and in
dependence if he had to die for it, Let 1t
never be forgotten that these sentiments
have been powerfully moulded by his re-
ligion, for while the church in other lands in
Europe, when connected with and supported
by the State, has always been the tool OF
power in England, the Church of Scotland
has sprung from the people, and has re-
manned true to its origin, the Church Of the
people. In all the crises OF Scottish history,
among the most powerful advocates OF the
cause of the people have been men in the
pulpit, and this from the days or hno3 ana
Melville to the DreSent.
"His mountains and his glens, his moors
and his heather, his babbling burns, ms re-
has inculcated in the core of the heart Of the
Scotchman this intense and all-consumlng
love of liberty and independence. what,
gentlemen, is the greatest glory of State?
The universal education of its people. In
this Scotland stands pre-eminent.
An Educated People.
-"Education has done its work with the
Scotch One might be challenged to produce
Scotchman who cannot read write and
cipher, and cipher we'll, too and who knows
just where the balance lies and to whom it
belongs. For the education of their chill
dren the poorest Scotch family will suffer
privation. They may starve, but rear their
children in ignorance they will not Frugal,
shrewd. prudent, peaceable, conscientious
in the discharge of duty to degree, and
above all other races gifted with the power
of concentration, the Scottish race of 4,0o0.-
0OO as is acknowledged by ALL has produced
an effect upon the world which no other four
millions of human beings, or double that
number can pretend to lay claim to.
Every ScOtchman is two ScOtchmen; as
his land has the wild, barren, stern crags
and mountain peaks. around which temp
ests blow, and also the smiling valleys be-
low, where the wildrose, the foxglove and
the bluebeil blossom, SO the Scotsman, with
his rugged force and hard intellect In his
head above has q heart below capable of
being touched to the finest issues. Senti-
mental, enthusiastic, the traces of a hare
Drained race floating about him from his
Celtic blood, which gives him fire, he is the
most poetic being alive. Poetry and song
are part of his very nature. He is born to
such a heritage of poetry and song and
romance as the child of no other land en-
joys Touch his head, and he will bargain
and argue with you to the last; touch his
heart, and he falls upon your breast Such
is the scot as we find him at home.
Founders of the Nation.
-'Who made the American nation? A
little more than century ago what WAS the
Americanf A puny, miserable colonist, a
dependent OF another nation. Who gave the
American a country? Bancroft tells: The
first voice for dissolving all connection with
Great Britain came not from the Puritans
of New England. the Dutch of New York or
the planters OF Virginia, but from the Scotch
Presbyterians of North Carolina
"The great claims OF the Puritans of the
to the Dutch of New York every one is will
ing to express our gratitude for the part
they played, but these races only followed
the first voice crying aloud to the poor, de-
graded colonists to rise and be men; that
voice was the echo from the heather hills
and rightly SO, for ours is the race of whose
main work for centuries was the mainten-
ance of the independence of our country at
home, against England. The same great
task devolved upon the Scot here. 1t Is the
mission of the true Scot ever to lead the peo-
pie wherever he goes, in the cause of liberty
and independence and in any struggle for
liberty our place is ever in the van. And
when this Scotch idea had electrified the
land, and the second declaration
was signed, no less than six of
these great Scotch-American leaders
attached their names and pledged
their lives, their fortunes. and their sacred
honor. The part that our race played in the
Revolutionary struggle, taken in compar-
son with our numbers, both in council and
IN the field, is one worthy OF a race of heroes
Wherever the Scot goes he cannot live with
out a country. The Developments of the
Australian Common wealth to-day is another
proof of his sineradicable yearning tor Il coun-
try of his own. If there be no country. he calls
upon his less alert, less Independents fellow
citizens to follow him and create one. He
found this a colony, and he summoned it to
rise and become a nation" [Applause.l