Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1908-03-11
THE scoTca.IKlsH
DIR. MacCorkIe Grows Eloquent
Over Their History


Louisville, on the night of Fetru.
airy 22rd. About enc hundred end
forty, with a number of Kentucky
guests, met to rejoice in their Viz
gina birth and the great things of
the land from which they came.
George Washington was good
subject with which to start and it
led TO other great names and con-
tributions to American history and
literature. Among the speakers
was the Rev DR.. f. w. MacCor
kle CT Nicholarsyille, and formerly
CT Clifton Forge. He spoke of th.
Scotch Irish Of Virginia, Showing
that he has not forgotten Rock
bridge and "the mountains Of
West Augusta, and was himself
fine example of thu Sec tch-lrish
stock and its production. DR..
MacCorkle said, in concluding his
address:
"They were intelligent people.
Ignorance was not tie mother cf
devotion with them. With Jech-
in and Boaz of the temple in
in which they worshiped were in
telligence ard piety. Their cate.
chisms were a liberal education.
These brought them in daily con-
tact with the great truths OF the
Bible. Strong minds were fed on
great truths. They were men Of
one book. Their libraries con
sisted of Shakespeare, Milton and
Scott with the devotional works
of the noble nCncomformist dis.
vines. They were the irauentia
molders of public opinion in every
community. they founded III
their proverty, Hampden-Sidney
and Washington and Lee. Macau-
lay says their enemies never ridi-
culed them in the halls Of debate.
They were self-controlled and
quiet in manner, but in any crisis
they spoke with convincing force
and acted with unparalleled energy.
They never fought unless they
could get at their foes, and then
they pulveriged them.
"Their lives revOlved about tie
Bible and the house CT God. Their
names in the old Bible are faded
and dim with age and yellow with
the salt spray, and still mere salt
tears of trial through which they
passed, but are clear and distinct
in the Book of Life.
"They were not without faults,
and this makes them the more in.
teresting, as it shows them more
human. Sometimes they mistook
crochets for principles, and they
would die by the one as quickly az
the other. They were open to
but would like to see
the man that could convince them.
They were mortal haters. Their
were never stilled up
til laid in the grave. They made
and kept it in their
homes, but no ren we're more
strictly temperate. 1t was the
other man who was the druakard,
John Scatus Enlgenf remarked TO
Charles the Bald as when seated !
at the table, Charles asked the
difference between Scot and a
rot. Quick as faeh came tie
answer, "Only the table, your |
majesty"
"But, with their faults, oil the |
world might stand up and say |
hey were meh. They have ever
been the champions of human
lights ard have shed their blood |
n the same sacred cause that Ger
'ecrated the pass at ThermOpylae
hat held the bridge with Horatius;
hat wrestIed tie charter OF hu |
nan rights from the sceptered
COVER at Runnymede; that broke
. way for Switzerland's freedom,
~ taking into one dauntless breast
he sheaf of Austrian spears; that
,rimsoned the SHOWS at Valley
Forge that carried an INN ortal
inc of grey up the wild heights of
Gettysburg and held the crest of
hat flaming height. Shell we be
worthy sons of noble siresp As
We draw aside the ensigns of these
states, the Mother and her Daugh-
er, we see the names Of those who
TODD for the right, who ever up
Ield the majesty of the law.
sat this very moment the cOun-
nv calls for men Of this fiber. If
t is to be uI built, it is to be done
y the right and by the mainten-
nee of the law. If the Govern
nent is TO be given over to those
mong the masses. or among the
lasses, who SPIT upon the law, it
, doomed. Willing to live for it
nd willing, if need be, to die fer
+. Central Presby terrain.
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