The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1898-04-23
THE sCoTCH-lRisH HYBRlDs.

mo ninth annual meeting of tue
Scctch-lrish Society will take place in
Chicago the first week in June, and
already the papers of the Windy City
devote considerable space to the pre-
tenticus organization and the work it
has accomplished IT spfang into cx-
lstencc at Columbia, Tenn. in 1889, and
is therefore only nine years old. The
promoters Of the society, according to
tho report in the Chicago Tribune,
were: Robert Bonner. the Rev John
Hall, Professor Macpskie Of Princeton.
Professor Perry of Williams College.
tho Rev. Dr. Macintosh Of PHILADELPHIA.
Proctor Knott Of Kentucky, William
Writ Henry Of Richmond the late
Judge Scott Of Bloomington, Congress
man Dalzell of Pittsburg, A. c. Floyd
or Chattanooga, John McIlhenny of
Philadelphia. Benton McMillin of Ten
nessee, Colonel Alexander X. Mcclure
of Philadelphia. the Rev. DR.. Howard
Agnew Johnston, of Chicago, Rev. DR..
Bryson of Huntsville. Ala, and Others
OF scctcll-Irish descent, most of them
being descendants OF the early Scotch
irish settlers in New England Pennsyl-
vania, North Carolina. and other COL
onies in the early part of the eigh-
tenth century.
At each annual congress Of the so
clety papers are read extolling the
deeds Of their Scotch-Irish ancestors in
America In the cause of liberty and in
the promotion Of education. Already
eight volumes of their congressional
proceedings have been published, and
il what Is contained in them be tr,,e
there was but little left to be done by
the rest Of the colonists before and
during the American revolution. The
members Of the society claim that the
Scotch-lrish were conspicuous for GAL
Iantry and were sternly opposed to
British domination in the days that
tried mems souls. AS matter of fact,
however, the proportion Of Ulster
lrishmen in the thirteen colonies is en-
tirely over-rated by the euloglsts OF the
Scotrh-Irish element. and though Ban
croft in his history styles Richard
Montgomery. the hero Of Quebec, a
"ScotchIr shman." it is doubtful If he
and men Of his stock ever called them
selves anything but Irshmen without
the prefix.
1t is only during the know-nothlng
craze of nearly fifty years ago that the
descendants of Ulster, Irish settlers in
the New England, states adopted the
name OF ''Scotch-fIpish." Being Protest
ants they imagined + themselves better
than the men from ireland who held
tenaciously to the, ancient faith be-
Qucathed to them by their prosecuted
fathers in the old land. But the fact
that the Scotch Irish" are Professionals
does not change II, them cthnologlcally.
Their forcfathers in Ireland never as-
sumed the name by which they like TO
be known here. William Orr. Henry
Joy McCracken and their ccmpatrots
Of the last century III Ireland were and
are still recognized as Irishmen with
out any Scotch attachment to their hon
ored names. They were Irishmen who
loved their native country so dearly rs
to endanger and lose their lives in the
attempt to free it from the foreign
yoke.
Looking over the names of the found
CTS OF the Scotch-lrish society in
America we fail to discover that any OF
thcm were borne by Irish patriots in
Ulster. Neither do we find the names
of these worthless figure in Scotch his
tory as advocates Of liberty. either civ
il or religious. Very likely they are
descended from the hungry horde of
Adventures who settled in the confis-
Gated lands of Ulster in the days of
James l., the Protestant son of the I'LL
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