The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-06-02
FHE UNITEDS =
CANADA WITH TIES THAT HOLD
Merely the Threads of Common Blood, But the
Stronger Bonds OF a Common Civilization and a Com
mon History Unite the Two Countries.

yetring preSloeht Va peolIiSH oo-
',etv Of America, delivered at the an
al meeting Of the society last Thurs
day IN Fayetteville.)
NV first word is n OF grateful APP
,,eciation. I appreciate most highly
~ honor conferred on me in my cleo
ION bv the annual assembly last year,
- \. the president Of the Scottish So
ciety Of America. 1t is indeed a
name thing. d very significant thing,
maj a Canadian born in Canada, and
win four generations of Canadian
ancestors. should be chosen president
81 this society of American Scots,
whose membership is scattered
throughout these historic Southern
states. With the utmost sincerity, al
most with pride, l tender my thanks
a. the officers and members, who,
without my knowledge, and while l
vas not vet a regular member, On
terrcd upon me the hlSneSt nohor at
their command.
If this honor was meant to be per-
eonal it may find some justification in
nv family traditions.
Despite my Canadian birth and
citizenship. L have in me something
of the Carolinian tang. Some time
before the Revolution of 1916 JOhn
Macdonald, my great-Rreat-grand-
father. who fought for Prince Charles
Edward Stuart on the battlefield of
culloden in 1746, and whose father
when "A child was carried out Of the
valley of Glencoe on that fateful
morning in February, 1892, was a set
tier in the great Gaelic-speaking com
munity, many thousands strong, which
gave character II distinction to all
this Cape Fear River district of North
Carolina. He and three of his sons,
James, "A young corporal, whose name
hear. and Duncan and Evan, were
soldiers in that Royal Highland Regi-
ment gathered from all these Scottish
counties, which answered the sum
mons of Brigadier-General Donald
Macdonald, and rallied to the Royal
Standard erected here in this very
town Of Fayetteville IN February IS,
1876.
Rallied to Royal Standard.
ON that day, in the town square,
those ancestors of mine, with nun
dreds of other clanSmen, and with
nearly three thousand Highland vet
Grams and recruits-Macdonalds, Mac
leods, Macleans, Mackenzies, Mack
ayes, ~Malachilans, and many other
Macs and Camerons and Campbells
and other sons of the Scottish Gael
they all answered with their Highland
hearts to Flora Macdonald's impas-
stoned words. exhorting them by all
that was heal in their blood n noble
In the history of their clans to stand
IN America for their Sovereign, King
George of the House of Hanover, as
in Scotland they and their fathers had
stood and suffered for their beloved
Prince Charles of the House Of Stuart.
That scene comes back today. 1t
Is bright with all the colorS n dark
with all the tragedy Of the tartan.
out they marched, clan after clan, in
swinging kits some with feather bon
nets, and some, like my own ances-
tor, carrying the heavy b~roadswords
they carried in Culloden Moor. Yon-
der beyond the creek, a gunshot from
where we nov meet, under a grea'
oak tree, beside her little white pony
stood the immortal Scottish heroine
No Drawer or more loyal heart evel
throbbed under a tartan plaid. Witt
q courage that knew no fear, Flora
Macdonald cheered name after name
as the clans marched past, and pu
iron and fire into their blood will
,ne ~steadying slogan of ali the clans
tlanna nan Gaidbael ri guillibh
ehelle': sons of the Gael, shoulder
together
The Nen Who Fail.
zen me they failed-those men o
The clans who that day marched Gu
Sc sallantly to die!
And what is our failure here bu
a triumph's evidence.
FUr the fullness of the days "
TEL me their cause was lost! Blu
VINO can tell what, in the long reache
of history will prove to be loss an
what to be gain? They aid tn
Irlhce lost on Culloden Moor. But i
'he deep plantations of history tn
name of the Duke of Cumberland ha
gotten into oblivion. while, in song
anu sentiments the world will not Il
ule' the name of Bonnie Charli
hVes forever. They say, too, hat tn
'aoSe OF the South was lost, but VIII
among You would change your South
eIh blood or Southern background fC
aoS'hlng the triumphant North coul
eve! And who is there with SEQ
Isl blood in his veins-Do matte
wwht'her his forbears fought with TT
aoileS or with the Whigs-wf
"nohs you does not lift his head
uouoer recognition at the memory
m,'se sons Of chivalry who, like Flo
"'u1haId herself, served devote
~ rouse of Stuart in Scotland r
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