The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-09

Going on to speak of the other
stream of Scottish immigration, the III.
ster Scot, Mr. Whitelaw Reid remarked
that the blood was the same and the
religious faith the same, but they had
been sent to the North of ireland one,
two, or three generations before, some
by James l., others by Cromwell, while
others went later attracted by cheap
farms and fancied opportunities from
trade. After a time they began to
suffer from unfriendly English legisla-
ton and Episcopal persecution and
from the hostility of the expelled Brit
ish Monarch, James H., which among
other things led them to their long
and heroic defence of Londonderry.
These experiences turned their eyes
to the American colonies, and present
ly great movement began among the
Ulster Scots. In 171S FIVE small ships
arrived at Boston with about $50 of
them, who ultimately settled, some at
Londonderry, New Hampshire, some
in Boston, some at Worcester, Mass,
and near Portland, Maine. A year
later some hundreds more Ulster Scot.
fish families were brought to the Ken.
nebeo river, in Maine, and these and
succeeding parties from Ulster soon
made a considerable element in the
northern New England population. The
eastern portion of New Jersey was
largely occupied by Scots, and it's
character to this day is still more
largely moulded by their influence
Meantime the religious freedom which
Penn did establish, while the Puritans
did not, combined with the milder eli
mate and the cheaper land, began to
divert the further flow of Ulster-Scot-
fish immigration from it's earlier field
in New England to Western Pensyl-
vania. By 1925 they had made such
an impression there thatthe Governor,
James Logan, declared, 1T looks as if
ants, If they continue to come they
will make themselves proprietors of
the province" OF Pittsburg little
over a century ana d nalf later it was
said, ''it is Scottish-Irish in substan-
tial origin, in complexion and history
Scottish-Irish in the countenance of
the living and the records of the dead"
Presbyterians and the War of In
dependence.
At the outbreak of the Revolutionary
War in spite of the long start of the
Quakers and the Germans, it was
believed that one-third of the entire
population of Pennsylvania was of
Ulster-Scottish origin. AS early as the
middle of that century it was reckoned
that the number of Presbyterians,
Scots, and Ulster Scots scattered
through all the Colonies was largely
above 100000, perhaps nearly 5000
and by the time of the Zenger trial in
New York the Presbyterians were far
the most numerous, these outnumber-
ing the Dutch Reformed of the Church
of England membership One authori-
ty a New England historian, counts
that between 1880 and 1870 at least
half million of souls were transfer.
red from Ulster to the colonies, more
than half the Presbyterian population
of Ulster, and that at the time of the
Revolution they made one-sixth of the
nine colonies south of New England
at about 5000. That was the Scot
and Ulster-Scot's numerical RESPONSE
bility for the War of Independence
Their intellectual and moral respon
sibility was far more. 1t was nc
author with Scottish blood in his veins
it was typical New Highlander
George Bancroft, who closed his ac
count of the incoming of the UlsteI
Scots with these words:-
"They brought to America no sub
missive love for England; and thei
experience and their religion alike
babe them meet oppression witt
prompt resistance. We shall find tn,
, first voice publicly raised in Americj
, to dissolve all connection with Grea
, Britain come not from the Puritan
of New England or the Dutch of New
York or the planters of Virginia bu
= from Scottish-Irish Presbyterians.
l (Applause,)
The Declaration of independence
: summed up the conclusions to whic
q for years the Scots and Ulster-Scot
T had been leading. Out of the fifty-si
: members who composed the Congress
e that adopted it, eleven were of SEQ
), fish descent. At the momentary an
: natural hesitation to put their neck
!, in a halter" by signing the documer
l. after its adoption, it was one of thes
s Scots, John Witherspoon again, VIII
n came to the front and carried the da!
e "He that will not respond to its az
z, cents and strain every nerve to carr
It into effect its provisions" he SAT-
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