The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-09
THE SCOT AND THE ULSTER SCOT IN
AMERICA ADDRESS BY THE UNITED
STATES AMBASSADOR WHITELAW REID

Edinburgh Scotsman, November o.
His Excellency the Hon. Whitelaw
Reid, the United States ambassador to
the United Kingdom, opened the SEES
sion of the Edinburgh Philosophical
Institution last night with ana address
on The Scot and Ulster Scot in Amer
lea" The Philosophical, it may be re-
called, is one of the oldest literary in I
situations in Edinburgh, and connected
with it as lecturers, and in other ways,
have been many famous men, includ-
ing such names as christopher
North" Lord Macaulay, Lord Brough-
am, Carlyle and w. E. Gladstone The
proceedings took place in the Synod
Hail. which was crowded to it's utmost
capacity.
In opening the proceedings, Lord
Roseberry presiding, who was received
with applause, said; 81 shall not waste
single instant of your time in so UNI
necessary a task as in introducing to
you the ambassador of the United
States of America, Mr.. Whitelaw
Reid" (Applause)
Puritans and Cavaliers.
Whitelaw Reid, who was warmly
welcomed, said he thought their inter-
est might be best enlisted in some &C.
count of what had been done by pio-
neers of their own Scottish blood,
when given the larger opportunity Of
the new world. The Puritan in Amer
lea has had his day, and generous,
perhaps, sometimes too generous, Brit
ish recognition. So had the Cavalier.
It was full time for the Scot in Amer
lea, and for the Ulster Scot. No man
might presume to depreciate either
the Puritan or the Cavalier. But when
they were praised, as they must be
forever, while heroism and great
achievements were honored among the
generations of men, the praise should
be for what they did, rather than for
what they conspicuNusly did not do.
The Puritan did not seek a new world
to establish liberty Of conscience; far
from it. He only sought world
where he could impose his own con-
science on everybody else. (Laugh-
teri The Cavalier did not seek a new
world where he could establish univer-
sal freedom. He only sought freedom
to have his own way. Neither the
Puritan nor the Cavalier went to
America in resistance of tyranny The
Puritans who sought to resist tyranny
stayed in England in the army with
Fairfax. The Cavaliers in the main
left England for America when the
commonwealth army defeated them.
Neither the Puritan nor the Cavalier
when at liberty to work out their
ideals established popular government
in the new world, though the Puritans
were much further from it than the
Cavaliers. Neither Puritans nor Cava-
liers led in the struggle for freedom of
speech and of the press. That honor
belonged to a Scot, Andrew Hamilton,
who went in 1895 from Edinburgh to
America, where he rose to be attorney
general of Pennsylvania. (Applause)
Forty years later he defended the New
York printer Zenger in trial for libel
on the Royal Governor which was con-
strued as libel on the King. Hamilton
defied official threats, resisted the bit
terly unfriendly Court, and by his i'm
passioned eloquence fairly wrested an
acquittal from the jury, and secured
the freedom of speech and of the Press
ever since enjoyed in America, some
times perhaps over-enjoyed. Qaugh-
ter and applause.) Neither Puritans
nor Cavaliers began the demand for
mo taxation without representation, "
which became the shibboleth of the
Revolution. This formula appeared
first in 174O, when the Provincial AS
sembly of Pennsylvania used it in a
controversy with the Governor and the
Proprietary party, Neither Puritan
nor Cavalier kindled the popular flame
for independence. Patrick Henry, a
Scot, did that in Virginia in 1853, and
the mother of the orator who started
it was a cousin of the Scottlsh hlsIoI
ian, Robertson, and Of the mother OF
Lord Brougham. 1t was that perfervio
Scot who sent the flame for independ
ence through every colony on the con
tinent-never from that hour TO Ole
out, He had thus enumerated some
of the attachments from the preyalen'
unmixed eulogy of the Puritans anc
Cavaliers which were absolutely nee
essary to historic accuracy. In spite
of them those self-sacriicing pioneers
brave beyond comparison and rigid!
conscientious according to their lights
had always received, and would Away
receive, ample justice for the unparaI
leled work they really did Puritan
and Cavaliers had possession OF TN
field for the first half of the seven
teenth century.
The Gamma of the Scot.