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

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and Frank Blair will occur to all. On
the Confederate side were Joseph T.
Johnston one of our very ablest losses;
LANES Longstreet, j. f. b. stuart, anu
one more to name Wnom - enough 10
shed an undying lustre over .ne Ianss ot
/ the lost cause. liz was aHo'"e'
terrain ruling elder
We see him now-the queer slouched nat.
Cooked Ger his eye askew; 4
The shrewd dry smile; the speech SD pat ~
So calm, so blunt, so true
The "Blue-ight Elder" knows EN- "eh'
Silence Ground arms Kneel all! Caps OF!
Old Massa's going TO pray.
strange the fool that dares 10 SCOT:
Attention Its his way
Appealing from his native sod,
In forma pdmperts 10 Coo g. o,ch forth rhx
| Lay bare Thine arm Stretcn iortn 1uy
Amen % That's stonewalrs Way.
He's in the saddle now Fall in
Steady the whole brigade.
IIills at the ford, cut of; Wen win
| His way out, ball and blaze.
What matter If our shoes are worn!
What matter IL our feet are torn!
Quick step were with MN Deiorv n,orn'
| That's Stoncwall Jacksons way.
We have seen that in our first war the
| movement for equality for all men be-
fore the law began among the classes
| prosecuted in their own country, the
Scottish and Ulster Scottish immigrants
| The anti-slavery movement Wnlcn leo ID
| our last great war began In the same
way but not in New England. That IS .
a prevalent delusion, which their brilliant
writer's have not always discouraged.
| But the real anti-slavery movement be-
gan in the South, largely among che
Scottish Covenanters or South Caronna
and East Tennessee, twenty 10 thirty
years before there was any organized
! opposition 10 slavery elsewhere even IN
| -. 10 fap h.a
Methodists and the Quakers of East
Tennessee had eighteen emancipation
societies by 1915. few years later.
| there were five or six in Kentucky. by
1926 there were 143 emancipation So
ceties in the United States, OF which lu3
were in the South, and as yet, so far IS
known, not one in Massachusetts. AS
late as 1883 the gentlest and sweetest OF
/ American anti-slaVery poets, John ".
Whittier. was mobbed i'm Massachusetts
for attempting TO make an Abolition
speech. John Rankin. the noted Cove
nanter anti-sayery Leader, SAID that Il
was safer in 1920 to MIKE Abolition
speeches in Kentucky or Tennessee than
at the North; and William Lloyd Gar
rison said in 1888 that he was sur
rounded by contempt more bitter, preJu-
dice more stubborn and apathy more
frozen than among Shareholders tnem-
selves.
During ali this period the indomitabls
| Ulster Scots, chiefly from pennsylvania
and the South. were pouring over the
Alleghenies, carrying ever westward
the frontiers Of the country, forming the
advance guard of civilization from the
lakes to the Gulf, fighting the Indians
and the wild beasts subduing and plant
ing p e wilderness westward 10 the MIS-
sissfppi. OF this conquering race Iheo-
dore Roosevelt says in his winning o.
the West:
Full credit has been awarded the
/ Roundhead and the Cavalier; nor nave
we pcen altogether blind TO the deeds OF
the Hollander and the Huguenot' out y
is doubtful if we have wholly realized
the importance of the part played -
that stern and virile people whose
preachers taught the creed of Knox aud
! Calvin. These representatives OF the
| Covenanters were in the west almost
what the Puritans were in the North
east. and more than the Cavaliers We're
i'm the South. They formed the
ke1 lei of the distinctively and intensely
American stock who were the pioneers
of our people in their march Westward.
/ Count. then, that enormous principal
ity that lies between the Allegheny
Mountains and the Mississippi River az
a Scottish conquest and then turn 10
more recent conquests by lndlVloudi
| Scotsmen. We have spoken OF Robert
! Fulton, backed by Chancellor Livingston.
! as the pioneer steamboat builder. But
| there were two others. also OF Scottish
origin, I'm that field-William Henry and
Joseph Rumsey. The telegraph depends
! to-day, all over the world. on the m
ventons of Joseph Henry and ;. T. Il.
| Morse. both of Scottish origin. The
| telephone comes closer to you stlll. Tor
| Alexander Graham Bell was born I'M
] ThnnaC Edison
mother. Mary Elliott, was also OF Scot
| fish blood SO was Cyrus Mccormick.
who brought the wheat fields or the
| United States and Canada to your doors
/ bv the invention of his reaper. To that
great list might we'll he added the man
who built the first steamship TO cross
the Atlantic: and many OF the leading
railway builders and operators, from
Strathcona and Mount stephen, across
, the invisible border, in Canada, and their
efficient ally in New York, John ). Ken
nedv. to the managers OF the greatest oi
Eastern railways, the Pennsylvania
which has been almost continuously IN
The hands OF men of Scottish blood
Thomas A. Scott, j. y. Mccullough,
lanes McCrea, Robert Pitcairn, Andrew
| Carnegie, Frank Thomson and a. y. cas-
satt In the same list may well De n
cluded great iron-masters, from Grant:
who built the first iron-furnace West NJ
y
ohio Scot, who first used the hot-blast
In making pig-iron. to Andrew Carnegie,
in whose colossal operations the iron ana
steel manufacture seemed to culmlnate'
II have spoken irreverently OF one
Of Vour Scottish contributions as our
first profe ssional blackmaller. let me
hasten, 10 add that the first tast printing
presses were developed by Scott GORDON
land Campbell; that the stereotype
presses necessary TO complete their use
| fulness came also from an inventor
LOT Scottish blood that the hrst
| American newspaper, The NeWs-Lel-
! ter" was published in Boston by John
! Campbel: that the first newspaper 1T
/ the great territory northwest OF the
| Ohio River was published at Cincinnati
bv William Maxwell; that she first re-
= licious newspaper was also started ny a
Scotsman of Chillicothe. ONO; and
finally, that the two most noted editors
i'm the United States were James Cor
don Bennett and Horace Greeley, the
| one a Scot. the other an Ulster scot.
| One Of them may be credited with the
conceptlon of the modern newspaper as
a universal news gatherer. and the other,
J .'our later Franklin" as Whittier called
him. with the most efficient use ever
made of il in America for the popu-
| larization of noble political conceptions.
| their development in a triumphant po-
litical party and in the overthrow OF hu-
man slavery.
! Let me close with a mere reference 70
the most kindly humorist and most loved
| of American authors. Diplomacy knows
| him as one OF our earlier Ministers 10
| Spain; New York knows him best by
! Diedrich Knickerbocker and Peter Stuy-