The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-05-20

sons" Such is the entry in the peerage
and baronetage of 1881 to designate the
gentleman who has subsequently by the
death of his father become head of the
great Clan Maclean and is to preside at
the world reunion of that famous clan
Mt Chicago in June. The chief (now Sir
Fitzroy) and the chieftains of Penny
cross, Loeb Buie. Ardgour, Urquhart
and Kingerloch are to arrive together,
and on june Is the Clan Maclean of
America will give them a reception in
the Auditorium, after which will come
banquets and concerts at which every
Maclean from every land who can posi-
bly, do SO is expected to be present.
OF course such IN occasion will not
only attract many descendants of other
clans, but will excite in millions Of
Americans an intense feeling Of sympa-
thetic interest, for in all history there is
nothing more romantic and touching
than the annals of the highlanders.
Even their failings leaned to virtues
side, and while there was much law'
r@ m--4 OF hot blood and hasty re-
Tenge. there were for many hundred
years a faithfnlness to clan and chief
tain which despised death and a sense
of honor SO keen that it felt a stain more
than a wound.
The origin of the Clan Maclean as of
the most of the other clans is lost in
the mists OF antiquity, but it's written
record is traceable at least as far back as
the twelfth century. At the time of the
first complete and official registry of
the clans when the lordship of the isles
was forfeited. there were four ~independ-
ent branches of the Clan Chilean, and
this was before the first syllable of the
many Gaelic names had been replaced by
the universal Mac. which has about the
same force as the French and Spanish
De, the German Won. the Dutch Van and
tho Irish o.
Of these -four the most important was
that of Quart. who have been lords Of
Null for SO many centuries and whose
Quart castle, overlooking the sound of
Null. is still one of the sights of Scot
land. The founder of this branch was
nachlan Maclean, surnamed Lubanich,
who in 1866 married Margaret. daughter
Of John, first lord of the isles. Maclean
Of Quart has ever been considered the
head of all the Macleans, but to trace
down the descent to the present Sir Fitz-
roy Donald Maclean would fill several
columns like this. The second branch
was the Macleans of Lochbuy. The
third was that of Coli, which produced
the famous ''Coll of the Cows" cele-
h~r%n1 hy M,aar1av Er,w%h ~r1ma 81,
Macleans of Ardgour, merely al offshoot
of the house of Quart.
The history of Scotland, as every reader
knows, begins with the visit of Julius
Caesar, at which time all Great Britain
from Lands End to John O'Groat's was
peopled by a race almost purely Celtic
or Gaelic. When Agricola invaded
North Britain in the year 81. the region
now called Scotland was inhabited by 81
tribes, of which the C~aledonians were
the greatest and eventually gave name
to the whole. The Scots came from Ire
land, and early in the fifth century the
combined Celts had driven out the Ro-
mans. There were then 40 kings of the
Picts or Caledonians and 30 of the Scot
Irish race, sometimes contemporary and
sometimes successive. which dynasties
lasted to the year S43. Then the regular
Scottish kings began to rule overa toler-
ably united nation, and their dynasty
lasted until 1907. And through all these
years the distinction between highland
and lowland was not sufficient to cause
trouble, as all the Saxons and Normans
In the country were either guests. exiles
o. captives taken in war.
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