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The Scotch-Irish Protestants of the north of Ireland declared that they preferred to stand where they did in 1690, when they defeated James II and his Catholic followers, in the battle of the Boyne, and fought for William of Orange for the English throne and liberty and Protestantism.
He was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1831, his father being another of those sturdy Scotch-Irish of whom we have already had occasion to speak. He was brought to New York at the age of nine; but his father died a short time thereafter and the boy was thrown practically upon his own resources.
The wound healed perfectly but he never was able to do a whole day's work afterward. An oarsman in the international regatta of 1869 who was a man of enormous physical strength, deranged his nerves in some way and shot himself rather than endure the kind of life that was forced upon him. The Wasson family was of Ulster-Irish descent, or as it is often improperly called Scotch-Irish.
The dominant strain in those earlier comers, as President Roosevelt reminds us, was Scotch-Irish, a "race doubly-twisted in the making, flung from island to island and toughened by exile" a race of frontiersmen than whom a "better never appeared" a race which was as "steel welded into the iron of an axe."
Of strongly marked descent, Haskell was, as I have always supposed, of a family and race in which could be observed those virile Scotch-Irish and Presbyterian qualities which found their representative types in the two Jacksons, Andrew, and him known in history as "Stonewall." To Alec Haskell I shall in this discourse again have occasion to refer.
He brought with him to the United States the lusty body, frugal instincts and good principles of his Scotch-Irish ancestry, and, in addition to those, a self-confidence and sureness of judgment destined to take him far. He got employment as a shipping clerk in a steamboat office in St. Paul, and so took his first lessons in transportation problems.
"Patty," said Mona, "I think your scheme is crazy, perfectly CRAZY! But if you really mean it, I'll tell you that I HAVE an Irish aunt, at least, sort of Scotch-Irish, and if we pass Susan off for her, the the ACCENT won't matter." "Just the thing!" cried Patty, gleefully. "I see my way clear now! It IS a crazy plan, Mona, I admit that, but do you know of any better?"
There was Scotch-Irish blood in the Flippins, and Mary's charm was in that of duskiness of hair and blueness of eye. "Oh, Randy Paine," she said, with her cheeks flaming, "when did you get back?" "Ten minutes ago. Mary, if you'll hand me that corking kid, I'll kiss her." Fiddle was handed over. She was rosy and round with her mother's blue eyes.
They fully justified the fears of the good bishop who wrote Lord Dartmouth, Secretary for the Colonies, that he trembled for the peace of the King's overseas realm, since these thousands of "phanatical and hungry Republicans" had sailed for America. The Ulstermen who entered by Charleston were known to the inhabitants of the tidewater regions as the "Scotch-Irish."
The outpost of Virginia was at Wills Creek, within striking distance of the Ohio; the valleys of the Blue Ridge were filling with Scotch-Irish and Pennsylvania Dutch; while German and Dutch farmers of New York occupied both sides of the Mohawk nearly to its source.
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