Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1895-07-22
AULD SCOTIA.
An Address delivered by Thomas
Black to the scottish Thistle
club, t9th July, 1925,

IlSO w SpChh VI AulN hONObiob
our native land. When 1 look
over the broad expanse of the
peaceful Pacific, then across the
wonderful new world and again
across the turbulent Atlantic
Ocean, IT, the storm beaten shores
of our island home; guarded as it
is on sea by u navy that fears not
the combined powers of the world;
protected on land by the sons of
men who charged at Balaclava,
who stormed the heights of Alma,
undertook and accomplished such
sieges as Sebastopol and Lucknow
and who also were successful in
destroying the Imperial guard ut
Waterloo, II confess to you, gen
tlemen, that feel deep pride in
being able to say that ] have such
men as my progenitors.
l cannot think of our native
land with its green fields and
lovely lawns, it's rugged hills and
smiling dales, Its grey old
castles and its stately homes,
ofthe days of chivaly when every
bill and glen rang with the praise
Of. knightly deeds, and brother
Scots, when l look up the records
of my fathers, and trace from
time to time that glorious struggle
for civil aud religious liberty
which our countrymen have waged
against the powers OF evil and
darkness, and how that when any
other nation was being oppressed
how willingly that Scotsmen
fought and died for truth, even in
foreign lands, and if any nation
on earth has ever demonstrated
the philosophy of "Truth Truim-
phant," it has surely been Scot
land, and 1 repeat, that l cannot
dwell upon those memories of our
fatherland without being filled
with profound emotion.
Not only in arms has Scotland
played her part, for she has been
one of the leaders in the van of
civilization.
''Breathes there man with soul SO dead
| Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land,
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned,
| As home his footsteps he hath turned,
From wandering on foreign strand,
| If such there be, go mark him we'll"
In science, literature and art, the
names of Scotia's sons stand pre-
eminent. Scotland with its natural
richness and rugged grandeur
has not been found wanting for
sons to purtray to the world that
beauty of which they feel 80 Justly
proud, and l might here make
little quota ton of William
Blacks, after he had travelled
over Asia, America and Europe,
which may prove interesting. He
says "He saw no scenery like that
of the land of his birth. How
grand it is to see the shadowsfall-
ing on the hoary mountain tops,
then slowly advancing over the
tarn or loch or sea, then the sun
would pierce through the fall of
clouds, the shadows would grad
ually uplift, and mountain, heath
cry hill and verdant meadow ,tarn,
loch and sea would be radiant
with gorgeousness Of glory that
only artists and lovers If nature
could appreciate, and none fully
Iicture or describe" Then when
| turn my thoughts on Sir Walter
SCOTS Lady of the LAKE." to me
at least it seems like a descrip-
ton Of Farryland, with Helen
Douglass as princess, aud
Fitz James as her faith
full Knight. How beautiful
ly descriptive Scott is in his
"Marmion" and Lord of the
Isles" and then look into that
wonderful AMUSEMENT, his Waver-
ley novels. What a stupendous
effort that was of SCOTS to rid
himself of stain, if the entangle-
ment he found himself in with his
publishers can be so called.
1t has always been matter of
wonder to me how it was that
Scotland being such a small place
and with but a handful of in
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