The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-11-03
SAYS ABOLITION
BEGAN N SOUTH
WHITELAw REID TALKS ON "THE
sCoT.- PAYING HIGH TRIBUTE
TO RACE.
SPEECH IN EDINBURGH
REPEATS FAMOUS POEM ON STONE
WALL JACKSON, SAYS CoyrED-
ERACY WAS PATTERNED
ny CLANsMEN.
SPEECH IN EDENBURGH

h.DiNBt RICH, Nov 2.-Whitelaw
Reid, the American am ba ssador to
Great Britain. delivered AT address
yesterday before the Philosophical In
Suiuuon of Edinburgh. with its prasi-
dent, Lord Rosebery, in the chair on
The Scot in America and the Ulster
Scot. He dwelt particularly on what
Las been achieved In the New World
by men of Scottish blood. and said 1t
Was full time that the Scot in America
be given proper recognition. Mr..
Reds speech was In part q tribute
TO the South and Southern conditions
In the course OF hts remarks he said:
In America Scotsmen have not often
figured as leaders of lost causes. but
both the president and the vice. presi
oenl al the southern Confederacy. JET
ferson Davis and John c. Brecken-
ridge, were of that blood. Another
leader in cause that seemed lost.
but ended first In an independent ma
ton, and then in the peaceful an
nexation TO the United States OF the
largest State in 1t. was Sam Houston.
president Or The Republic OF Texas,
and first representative of the state
OF Texas in the United States Senate.
"a uu. great civil war among many
leaders on the Union side of Scottish
descent, the name OF Grant. McPher-
son. Mcdowell, Mcclellan, GiIrnors
and Frank Blair will occur to all. ON
the Confederate side were Joseph f.
Johnston. one of our very ables'
losses: James Iongstreet. ]. #. u
stuart. and one more. to name whom
il enough to shed an undying luStre
over the ranks OF the lost cause, II
was another Presbyterian ruling elder
IA a-k,~
hat.
Cooked DER his eye askew:
The shrewd, dry smile; tho speech SC
pat,
So calm, SO blunt, SO true;
Tho "Blue-!ight Elder" knows EN-
we'll:
Silence! Ground arms, Kneel all, Cap.
off.
Old Massas going TO pray.
strange the fool that dares to scoff
Attention.-its his way.
Appealing from his native sod,
In forma panperis to God,
Lay bare Thine arm! Stretch forth
Thy rod:
Amen" That's Stonewans Way
Hes in the saddle now. Fall In
Steady the whole brigade
lis way out. ball aud blade.
What matter If our shoes are worn
What matter if our feet are torn"
Quick step. we're with him hefor'
morn:
That's Stonewall Jacksons Way
We have seen that in our first wa
the movement for equality for all mel
before the law began among tn
classes prosecuted In their own coun
try. the Scottish and Ulster Scottish
Immigrants The anti-slavery move
nent which led To- our last great wal
began In the same way, but not II
New England. That is prcvalen
delusion. which their brilliant writ
ers have not always discouraged. Blu
the real antislavery movement be
gan in the South. largely among tn
scottish Covenanters of South caro-
lima and East Tennessee. twenty {
thirty years before there was an
organized opposition to slavery else
where, even in Massachusetts. TIL
tovenanters. the Methodists and TIL
Quskers OF East Tennessee had eigh
teen emancipation societies by 1916
A few years later there were five O
six In Kentucky. BY 1896 there wer'
143 emancipation societies In tn
HltSO Etateh. OF within ip3 NSTe II
the South. and as vet. so far AS known
not one In Massachusetts As late a
1893 the gentlest and sweetest 0
American anti-siavery poets, John &
Whittier. was mobbed in Massachu
setts for attempting to make a
abolition speech. John Rankin, tn
noted Covenanter anti-siayery leader
said that il was safer In 1890 to max
abolition speeches In Kentucky or Ten
nessee than at the North, and VII
liam Lloyd Garrison said in 1888 tina
he was surrounded by contempt NOR
bitter, prejudice more stubborn an
apathy more frozen than among slave
holders themselves