New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-02

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ether name. Since he was born In LiV .'ng
pool. the census enumeration was settihs
him down as English. when he mus
nantly interrupted: Sure. and Is Il ~!
raysOn for calling a man a MORSE w
cause he was born in stableE az
in fact If these Scottish aud fresp!.o
rian coonists must be called irlsh w
cause they had been one or two gem .,,o
tons in the North OF Ireland theh M
/ Pilgrim Fathers who had been one y,
GRAFTON or more i'm HOLLAND. must py 'n
same reasoning he called Dutch Or CT
| the very least. English Dutch.
/ In this new stream of Scottish settlers
| in the colonies the blood is the same anu
! the religious faith Is the same, but they
had already been immigrants from sou
| land to the North of ireland lot on..
| two or three generations; .some Sent Wy
James l. others by Cromwell. otnel'
attracted later by cheap farms and lan-
| ced opportunities for trade Aitel
! time they began to suffer from uii
| friendly English legislation. from bpls0o,,
ral persecution and from the cluu ai,ed
not treacherous, hostility OF the eXpeilSu
British monarch. James ii, winch,
among other things, forced them TO thelr
| long and heroic defence Of LondondeIiS.
! These experiences turned their eyes an
the Scotsmen already prospecting IN the
| American colonies. and presently Srea'
movement began among the Ulster ocotH'
In Ills five small ships arrived at DOS
ton with about 100 of them. VINO u'tl-
mately settled some at Londohdeiry'
n. H.. in a Presbyterian congregation
under the care of the Rev. James Mac
Gregor. some IN Boston, forming tne
| Federal street Presbyterian Church;
some at Worcester. Mass, and near
Portland. Me- A year later some nun
dreds more Of Ulster Scottish iam'hes
were brought to the kennebec RIVER III
Maine by Captain Robert Ienple' az
ancestor of the well known Robert I;
Winthrop. of Massachusetts. These ana
succeeding parties from Ulster soon
made a considerable element In tne
Northern New England population. On
the one hundred and fftieth anniversary
of the founding of this American Lon
donderry. Governor Charles n. Bel OF
Exeter y. H.. called attention TO the
prodlgious increase in that settlement
of Ulster Scots. which he found then
estimated by qualified persons 10 IAN
little short Of fifty thousand.
William Penn was of course ferrid
Quaker. and before his career IN Amer
Tea was ended he came into collision WIN
men of Scottish blood and faith, even
in his own province. But he was also
q man Of business, and as such ne fouhd
Il 10 his interest as early as lOS2 to Sc
cure as many Scots as possible Tor an
other colony I'm which he was concerned
that Of New Jersey. It's eastern portion
was largely occupied by them ana i,S
character to this day is still more largely
moulded by their influence.
Meantime the religious freedom Whlch
Penn did establish. while the Purltans
did not. combined with the milder
climate and the cheaper land began 10
divert the further flow OF Ulster SCOT,
fish emigration from its earlier hein
I'm New England To Western fenhsyl-
ysnia. BY 1928 they had made such an
impression there that the Governor.
LANES Logan, declared. 1T looks as II
ireland were to send all her inhabitants.
If they continue 10 come. they VIII make
themselves proprietors OF the province,
Only a little over "A century ana hdli
later. Pittsburgh alone was proprietor
Of more than that, and It's congressman
John DalZell, was able 10 say Oh MS
town. i'm the American phraseology. that
81 Is Scotch Irish in substantial origin
i'm complexion and history-S cotch-lrisn
I'M the countenances of the living ana
the records Of the dead.
At the outbreak ~ the Revolutionary
War. I'm spitc of the long start OF the
Z
lieyed that one third Of the entire popu-
lation OF Pennsylvania was OF Ulster
scottish origin. As early as the middle
of that century the number OF Prespl
tcrians (Scots and Ulster Scots) scat
tered through all the colonies was reck-
oned by ~. Charles Hodge huthor Oh
| the constitutional History OF the fTes-
byterian Church at largely above
hundred thousand. perhaps nearly Two
A. ,I,tt.unH "A against the tpthl
number Of Puritans that ever came
| which ne nuts at about twenty -one
! thousand. rs the time ~ the Ienger
trial ln New York the Presbyteriahs
were far the most numerous there Out
numbering the Dutch Reformed OF the
| Church % England membership.
In 1876 ar Ulster Scot. Henry Mccul-
| lock. settled between 1000 ana i,Wp
of his couutrymen on land grant ol
/ a. 900 acres which he had secured III
/ what is now the county of~Duplln' y. I;
! \ few years later steady stream OF
/ I'lster Scots was pouring into Phlla-
| d.Inhio some going west towards PITTS
bureb. and still farther to Kentucky
md Tennessee. others turning south
! sooner ard filling the valleys Of West
/ Virginia the western parts OF North
and South Carolina and even georgia
! with rough clearngs. log cabin school
houses and Presbyterian churches. Ihe
! great movement OF Ulster scots began III
: IT'S and continued I'LL the nlddIe OF
/ the century. As carly az liZ3 hNe
! thousaud of them entered Pennsylvania
! alone I'm a year After the famine II was
! estimated that twelve thousand OF them
| reached tho colonies every year. re-
! newed movement began In I'LL, and ny
| the end Of 1773 II was reckoned that
! thirty thousand more Of them had come
! ono authority a New England historian
! cotints that between 1870 and liio at
least half million souls were trans
| ferred from Ulster 20 the colonies. more
! tban half the Presbyterian population
! NJ T-Ister. and that at the time of the
/ Revolution they made onc-siNth OF mo
! total pouulation Of the colonies. An
ct,er authority fixes the inhabitants or
Scottish ancestry in tine nine colonies
! south If New England as about three
! hundred and eighty-hve thousand: EH-
| Guiding those who adhered In the KING s
| cause. he counts that less than half OF
| tho entire population Of the colonies was
| ~ English origin and that nearly or
quite ono third Of it had Scottish an
| ccstry.
That was your numerical responsible
! ia, tben for the War of independence.
| Your Intellectual and moral responsible
! nv was far more. II was no author win
| scottish blood I'm his veins, il was the
tvpical New Highlander George Bancroft
who closed his account OF the Incoming
! OF the Ulster Scots with these words:
! They brought TO America no submis-
sIve love for England: and their expert
cree and their religion alike babe them
| meet oppression with prompt resistance.
we shall find the first voice publicly
raised i'm America To dissolve all connoc-
1 zion with Great Britain come not from
| thr Puritans Of New England. or the
dutch of New York or the planters OF
Virginia. hut from Scolch-Irish Presby-
| .G..H.