Arizona republican., 1911-11-03
American Ambassador De.
 flyers Address
HE TALKS AT EDINBURGH
Speech of Famous New Yorker Deals in an Inter estlng Manner With the History of Scottish I'm migrants.

EDlNBURG, Nov. 2 - Whitelaw
 Reid, the American ambassador to
 Great Britain. delivered an address
 yesterday before the Philosophical in-
 stitution of Edinburg. with its presi-
 ueht, Lord Rosebery, in the chair. on
 The Scot in America and Ulster
 Scot He dwelt particularly on what
 has been achieved in the new world
 by men of Scottish blood. and said
 II was full time that the Scot in
 America be given proper recognition.
 MT. Refd'S speech follows:
 l cannot thank you too warmly for
 this reception on a platform which
 has been graced during the long his
 tory of the Edinburg Philosophical in
 Sututon by so many of the most emi-
 nent men of letters and statesmen of
 the United Kingdom. In discharge of the duty with which you have honored me l have ventured to think that your
 interest might be best enlisted in some account of what has been done by pioneers of your own Scottish blood when given the larger oppohtunity of the new world. The Puritan in Amer
 ica has had his day. and generous, perhaps, sometimes too generous Brit ish recognition So has the Cavalier
 It is full time for the Scot in America and for the Ulster Scot. I venture to rank this grandson of Alexander Hamilton of Grange in Ayrshire, and of the eldest daughter of Sir Robert Pollock of that ilk. as the foremost Scottish contribution to America, in that most critical and formative peri od-indeed as the foremost cOntribu- ton from any part of the world. An other contribution was Scottish. too, in fact, a Scotchman born, James Will son, from St Andrews, an early inn migrant to Pennsylvania. He ap- preached Hamilton himself as closely as a great lawyer, the first legal scholar of his time and place. and perhaps then the head of the Ameri- | can bar. could approach one who, be- | sides being a statesman of command | ing and many sided ability, was a man | of genius. Wilson, too, was a signer | of the declaration. and a most useful | and influential member of the con- vention that framed the constitution | He gave his whole influence with | ildilllllou anu AIduISoH III most cases | against the self destructive plans of | state sovereignty and for a strong | government. When it was set up | Washington put him on the bench of | the supreme court of the United | States, where he remained in increas- ing usefulness till his death in 119S
 On that great court, as Washington first organized it, three of the four associate justices were of the same blood-one a Scot and two Ulster Scots. When the first chief justice, John Jay. left the bench. his successor, John Rutledge, was an Ulster Scot first cabinet contained four members. Two of them were Scots and a third was an Ulster Scot
 The same tendency is marked the list of men who have filled 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, but most of the authorities agree that his fother was of what they call Scottish Cavalier descent, from a family that emigrated to Virginia in 1850. Andrew Jackson was born in South Carolina, two years after his parents, Ulster Scots, ;,