The Penn's Grove record., 1917-02-02
HIGHLAKDERS OF AMERICA
Help Needed to Educate The
Poor White People In
The South

gave a very instructive illustrated lecture
in st. Paurs Church last Saturday night
on how the jewellers in cabins in the Ap-
palachian mountains are being developed
into sterling man and womanhood by edu-
cation with home missionary aid of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr.. Bur-
nett is himself d fine specimen of how
these sturdy h~ighlanders of American, of
Scotch-1rish and German blood, are being
developed into the best Americans. Some
of them have been the most famous men
OF America. Of this sturdy stock came
Francis Marion, Andrew Jackson, Daniel
Boone, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew John
son and Woodrow Wilson.
Rev. Burnett also gave an interesting
sermon on the same topic Sunday morn
ing. Seventy-fye dollars were given to
this needed missionary cause.
In order that our readers may under
stand why and whence came these high
landers of America, we will give a few
historic notes of the origin of America in
Europe before giving a brief account of
Rev. Burnett's statements.
The colonies were originally settled by
different religious sects who came for re-
ligious liberties when the stronger sects
were in political power and believed that
the salvation of the souls of their neigh
bors depended upon the minority ac-
cepting the religion of the majority.
When Queen Elizabeth was succeeded
by James 1, of England in 1903, who was
a son of Mary Queen of Scots and was
also James vi, of Scotland, he gave
much land in northern Ireland to his
Scotch vassals who took the stern Pres
hufart0n raliUinn Of Inhn lNa1-sp A~I
John Knox to ireland and with severity
suppressed the Catholics. They were
known as the Scotch Covenanters and
person who takes an official oath today
swears by the method of the C~ovenanters.
Prostestants use King James version OF
the Bible today. While he was propa-
eating Presbyterianism members of the
Church of England, known as Episco-
palians, came over and settled in Virgin
ia and the Puritans settled in New Eng
land.
The Scots who VOL King James's battles
were large, bony. sinewy men with alert
minds. Their descendants known as Scotch
Irish, have produced many able men in
America. They are noted for their physi-
cal as well as mental vigor and lave peer
the backbone of Professionalism in Great
Britain as well as America.
Thomas Carney. for whom Carney Point
lie named, came from northern Ireland, Will
liam Summerill came with him about l740.
Both are the ancestors of the Summerill
family in this region.
The reign of James II was ended by his
s~on-in-law. William. Prince of Orange,
from Holland, al the battle of the Boyne,
1853. who thereafter jointly reigned with
Mary. James's daughter. They forever es-
tablished Professionalism in Great Britain
and America.
James son, Charles 1, believed in the
divine right of kings to rule without ad
vice, and the Puritans, under Oliver
Cromwell, fighting with a Bible in one
hand and a sword in the other, cut
Charles head off in 1919. The Puritans
cut their hair short and were known as
round heads and the world has adopt
ed the custom by abolishing long hair
and wigs.
After the death of Cromwell, Charles
III became ruler in 1860. Many leaders
in his fathers executions settled in Con-
n~ecticut for the benefit of their good
health. John Fenwick, who was a cap
tain in Cromwell's army, brought the
first Quaker colony to America and set
tied in Salem, n. j. The land titles in
New Jersey are founded upon the gifts
of Charles ii.
While the Puritans ruled the Catholics
came to Maryland for the benefit of their
health.
William Penn accepted Pennsylvania
from Charles III for an old debt the
Kings father owed PENIS father. Penn
saw the Inner light" to make him a
Quaker among the Protestants in north
ern Ireland. PENIS mother, who was
Dutch, preached the doctrine to Men
MONTE Germans who came to Pennsyl-
vania and some later went to the Allie
gheny mountains.
On the death of Charles III, his broth
or, James II, once owner of all New
Jersey, became King. He became a
Catholic and many of the Scots who had
settled in Ireland left for the benefit of
their health, came to Virginia and set
tied in the highlands, back from where
the people of the Church of England.
E~piscopalians, ruled. Hence the Scotch
Irish in America.
Rev. Burnett says that the territory
from Washington, d. c., extending south
ward for $50 miles, and a width of 100
miles, may be called the desert of Amer
lea. For 200 years these people have
thrived strong and sturdy. Many men
are six feet and taller. They marry
young, have families of from 10 to Is,
and now number about 100000. They
are of the oldest and purest American
blood. About 40 per cent own their
homes which are cultivated mostly with
hoes. Women as well as mn work in
the field where grain and potatoes are
grown. Dogs watch the babies.
Very few negroes live in thai terri
tory. They did not own slaves and were
strong Union citizens and anti- British.
Francis Marion and his men who could
live on sweet potatoes drove the British
from the Southern States. Andrew Jack
son and the Tennessee rifemen whipped