THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 20, 1911. "SCOTLAND FOR EVER."

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10507, 20 December 1911, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 20, 1911. "SCOTLAND FOR EVER."

The part the IrisSr have played in tine later politics of Americans has, perli!aj>s, oversihiadowed the work Scots did there in the early days of the nation's 'history. Tlie bold way in which, the Scot has carved history hi tike United States was described recently by the United States Ambassador in Kingiliand, in. a lecture in Miniburgli. Mr WfhiteLaw Reid began by remarking that the Puritan and the Cavalier had had generous recognition of tlueir pioneer work in tlie New World, and it was time justtica was done to the achievements of tlie Scot, ill' which he included those of tflite Scot from Ulster. After pointing out how tihe Furitams opposed freedom by their intolerance, Mir Reid said the tuonbnr of leading the straggle for freedom of speech and of tihe Press beltonged to a Soot, Andrew Hamilton, wlbx) went, in 1695, from Edinburgh to America, and rose- to be Attorney-General of Peams|ylva.nia,. He defended a Now York printer in a trial for libel tarn tilw Royal Governor, wWLoh was construed as libel on tihe Kong. Hami'ton sewured an acojuilttal, and witOi i' ':• -tftw freedom of the spoken and t3 • wriittpjHj' word. Neither Oaivalier u< - Puritan' la*!cU»d die popular flswn* i .''

independence, but it, was Patrick Henry, a Soot, who maintained the indisputable right of Virginia to make law® for herself, arraigning tlie King for an milling a salutary ordiniaiLce in the sole Miilerest of a favoured ej.«-s.v, and saying, "By such acts a King, inißread of being the fafclicr of liivs people, degenerate*, into a. tyrant, and forfeits all right to obedience-." It was. Henry who afterwards- proclaimed, the doctrine of equal: franchise with the people of Engknd> and of local power to tax, aad sent- a wave of independence through the country. Mr WMtelaw Reid said that out of the fifty-six members of the Congress that adopted the Declaration of Independence, ellsven were of Scottisih descent. The IJctkrat&on was- written by an l Ulster Scot, first publicly read by anotlier, and first printed by a third. Out of Washington's .twenty-two j brigadier-generals.,, nine were of Scottish de&cent,' among ■ them Alex- | a-Jider Hamilton', the great maker of t'lie Constitution, Three of titoe four members of Washington's, first Cabinet, and two-thirds of the first lot of State Governors were of Scottish origin. Eleven out of the twenty-five Presidents have been wholly, or in part, of the same blood. The anitijalavery movement ; winch lledjlto tine/ Civil Ulster-Scottish immigrants- in tire I. 'south and 'west.- ' '.We, 'have not •' f or- \ gotten; our origin or our obligations," I the lectureavoonelfUided. \ of the Con-tinemtal Republic, heart* k-wili.: i Old I Land, thrilling wittti pride ia youir past, and- hope for your future, and joining with you, as Ave have , good reason-to join, in the oh', cry, 'Scotland for ever!' "