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

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Treasury Department the orSai
which has served IL ever slhcS -
In it, as before in the Constitute, of
vision for the wants Ot p. r,hen
three millons-so well devised ,ha. 10
they have grown TO ninety m'iiio''
still found adequate.
Then this young man, oniy 'ni,S 80,
eight even yet whose lie h@u t,ino
spent i'm camps in Constitution iii anin,
and in the Cabinet, turned 10 III. ra-
exacting of the professions, ana III III" iace
naming nine years conquered - i'm
as a great LAWYER. inferior to no other III
that nation of lawyers. At forty -SeySoJ
possibly before he had even yet reaon.o
the full maturity OF his splendid powe,n,,
he fell i'm an unprovoked duel, Wiz WI 49,,
even aiming at his antagonist. IL c.
Scotsman, at home or abroad, mas
loftier record of more varied acnlesr
ments, then there is yet more ieasoa
than any of us have hitherto redIlNt
for still greater pride in the lana anu
I'm the blood
venture to rank this grandson vi
Alexander Hamilton, of Grange. III Az i..
shire and of the eldest daughter Oh on
Robert Pollock of that TX, as the loie
most Scottish contribution TO Amerlca'
i'm that most critical and formative
period--lndeed as the foremost contripu-
ton from any part of the Worid. All
other contribution was Scottish, too' i'll
fact, a Scotsman born, James Wilson,
from st. Andrews, an early iniiiii on
to Pennsylvania. He approached haIi
ilton himself as closely as a great law
YER, the first legal scholar or nlsoeinlS
and place, and perhaps then the hedn
of the American bar, could approach
one who. besides being statesman oi
commanding and many-slded abiilty'
was "A man of genius Wilson. too, was
a signer Of the Declaration, ana most
useful and influential member OF tle
Convention that framed the Constitution.
He gave his whole influence win ham
ilton and Madison. in most cases, aedilisI
the self destructive plans OF state SOW
ereignty, and for a strong government
When il was set up, Washington put
him on the bench of the Supreme Court
of the United States where he remained
in increasing usefulness till his death
i'm 1893.
ON that great Court. as Washington
first organized il, three of the -FOUR AS
socjate Justices were of the same blood
one a Scot. and two Ulster Scots. When
the first Chief Justice, John jay. LETT the
bench. his successor John Rutledge, was
an Ulster Scot. Washingtons first Can
met contained four members. TWO OF
them were Scots and a third was an
Ulster Scot.
Among the first Governors for the ne"
State Governments set up by the colonies
nine Uwo-thirds) were Of either scot
fish or Ulster Scottish origin-George
Clinton, Of New York; Thomas Mchedn
of Pennsylvania: William Livingston, OF
New Jersey: Patrick Henry. or virginia:
II 1I.ss0 ~
Caswell. of North Carolina; John Rut,
ledge. of South Cardinal Archibald
Bulloch. of Georgia. and Jonathan
Trumbull. Of Connecticut.
The same tendency is marked through
out the list of men who have niled the
great office of President of the United
states. Eleven out of the whole twenty
five (nearly one-halD were OF Scottish
,or Ulster Scottish origin, on one side
always, often on both The ancestry OF
James Monroe is not wholly clear, put
most Of the authorities agree that MS
father was of what they call Scottish
Cavalier descent, from family that
emigrated to Virginia in 1000. Andrew
Jackson was born in South Carolina
two years after his parents, Ulster
scots had emigrated from Carrickfer-
gus, County Down. James X. Polk was
the descendant of Ulster Scots from
County Londonderry, who came TO
MARYLAND ABOUT 1890. James Buchanan
was the grandson Of Ulster Scottish
parents who came TO Pennsylvania In
1875 from County Donegal. Andrew
Johnson was the grandson of an Ulster
Scot who settled first in Pennsylvania
and then removed TO North Carolina
about 1850. General Ulysses ). Grant
was. on his mothers side. descendant
of Ulster Scots who settled in Penn
sylvania about 1863. Rutherford Il.
HAYES was the descendant or George
HAYES, who emigrated from Scotland TO
America about 1850. Chester Alan
Arthur was the grandson of Gavin Mac
Arthur of Ballymena, County Antrim.
STEPHEN Grover Cleveland was, on MS
mothers side an Ulster Scot. Benjamin
Harrison, among the greatest OF recent
Presidents. came OF one OF the ramllles
most conspicuous in America for high
hubble service through successive genera
tions. He was, on his fathers side. OF
Cavalier origin, the grandson or Presl-
dent. ssad great grandson OF a slgner or.
the Declaration of independence; on the
mothers side a descendant or an Ulster
Scot named Mcdowell. William Mckln-
lev was Of Ulster Scottish descent.
Theodore Roosevelt, on the father slde'
Is OF Dutch origin: on the mothers SIDE
is a descendant OF Alexander Bulloch,
The Scottish first Governor of the State
~ Georgia. or the twenty-five men
" hose names fll the shining roll OF the
American Presidency, nearly one-halt
chose Secretaries Of the Treasury of
Scottish descent and nearly one-thlrd
chose Secretaries of state of the same
blood. In the Treasury. besides the
great figure ~ Alexander Hamilton, We
recall such men as Louis McLane Zone
Ia. vsr1 mr.
post. while his son was my immediate
predecessor i'm Franco, Thomas Ewing,
ono of the foremost lawyers Of the coun-
try; Thomas Corwin, the nearest rival
of Henry Clay as a popular orator
James Guthrie. and that noble pair
chosen 10y Lincoln, Salmon 2. Chase, or
Ohio. and Hugh McCulloch. of Indiana
Nor in this brief reference to Scottish
service 10 the Treasury should it be for
gotten that when Robert Morris under
tool, to raise money for the starving
army during the Revolution, one-third
of tho total amount came from the
Ulster Scottish Society of Sons of st.
Patrick. in Philadelphia. In the State
Departmcnt no names shine brighter
than the Scottish ones from Edward
Livingston and John {. Calhoun TO
James G. Blaine. John Hay and 7. c.
Knox.
OF the sew men who came upon the
stage in the second quarter of the Re-
public's existence, three were by COM
mon consent pre-eminent. Daniel Web
ster. John G. calhoun and Henry clay.
one was Scottish. Daniel Webster,
" hose ancestor. Thomas Webster, came
to New Hampshire in 1886; one was
Ulster Scottish. John G. Calhoun. whose
grandfather. James Calhoun. emigrated
from Donegal to Pennsylvania In 1888:
and the third. Henry Clay, has been
claimed AS Ulster Scottish by some writ
ers. apparently on the presumptive EVIL
dence of birth I'm Virginia In a region