The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-02
THE scorCH-IK1sH CONGRESS.

The meeting of the Scotch-Irish Con-
gress which closed its work at Atlanta,
Ga, on Saturday recalls the fact that the
Scotch-Irish exercised an extraordinary
influence in the formation of the American
government. The greatest men of the
colonial revolt against the KING were
Franklin, John Adams, Sam Adams, Otis,
Patrick Henry, Jefferson. Richard Henry
Lee ana John Rutledge. They were all of
pure English stock save Henry and Rut-
ledge.
But the Ecotch-Irish were conspicuous
among the soldiers and the rank and file
of the people who fought the Revolution.
starke, Montgomery. Sullivan, George and
James Clinton, Wayne, Knox, Mercer,
Moultrie, Morgan, Sumter, Horny, Miffiin,
Hayne, Campbell, Shelby. Butler, Con-
way, Mcneil, Peirce, Moylan, Barry.
Charles Carroll, Lynch, Jackson,
Hurd, 0'Brien, Fitzsimmons, Lyon,
Logan, Moore are names of men of
Irish blood that were eminent in peace
or war on the side Of the colonies. There
were large numbers of Scotch-Irish in
New Hampshire. Maine. Pennsylvania,
Georgia, the Caroiinas and Delaware in
colonial times, and the first settlers of
Kentucky and West Virginia as early as
l746 included alarge number of pure Irish
names.
There were Irish at Portsmouth, N. H.,
rs early as 1851; the New Hampshire
colonial records from ITO to 1858 are full
Of Irish names. The New Hampshire set
tiers not only included large number of
Scotch-Irish, but of Roman Catholic Irish
f Celt stock, whose emigration began in
,7l9 because of English commercial legis-
lation. which destroyed Irish trade md
commerce so completely that by 1873 Ire
land as a commercial country was corpse.
These colonists named their settlements
after Irish towns-Londonderry, Antrim,
Derry, Dublin, etc.
The irish colonists who fought for the
Independence of America were exception
ally ardent patriots. The Celt-Irish colo
INST hated England, as the oppressed al
ways hates the conqueror, the tyrant and
the oppressor, and the Scotch-Irish colo
mist hated England with the hate which
the Scotch Presbyterian always felt for
the Anglican church. After the Revolu-
ton the Scotch-Irish stock was conspicu-
Gus for intellectual eminencs, both at the
North and at the South Calhoun. Nc.
nufie and Hayne, who plotted against
the Union, and Jackson, Livingstone and
Clay. who defended it. were all of this
strain.
President Arthur, on his fathers side,
and Blaine, on his mothers side,
sprang from this stock. Stonewall Jack.
son and Joe Johnston both came of it, as
did General Phil Kearney. General
Logan, Sam Houston, David Crock
EFT, Commodore MeDonough, Com
modore Stewart. Admiral Rowan.
o'Hara, author of THE Bivouac of the
Dead" Simon Cameron, James Buchanan
General Carroll, General Mccall, General
Mcdowell, Ben Butler, Speaker Carlisle,
United States Senator Gordon Of Georgia,
General MeCook. General Mcclellan, Gen.
eral McClernand, General Mcpherson and
Governor Mckinley all came of it. The
great scholars and theologians of the
Presbyterian church of the North are ali
of this stock.
The Scotch-Irish stream went to Maine
New Hampshire. Pennsylvania and North
Carolina Its overflow poured into Ken.
lucky, Virginia, Tennessee, South Caro-,
lima, Georgia, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana
and Ohio. Among the Confederate gener,
ais Scoteh-Irish names are very common
the South retained more of the stock in it.
parity than the North at the outbreak Of
the war