Erskiniana [Yearbook] . > The Making of Americans /! I!. SPEECH WITH WHICH MR. W. C. McLAlN WON IN THE PRELIMINARY CONTEST TO REPRESENT ERSKINE AT GREENWOOD IN THE S. C. ORATORICAL CONTEST. ROM the four comers of Europe were drawn thefounders of the Httle settlements that were, in the courseof human events, destmed to expand into an early settlers were not the visionary heroes ourhistorians have held up before us; they were onlysimple men and women of the seventeenth century,with all the faults and fanaticisms of their age. Theywere, however, a people inured to labor; they had
Erskiniana [Yearbook] . > The Making of Americans /! I!. SPEECH WITH WHICH MR. W. C. McLAlN WON IN THE PRELIMINARY CONTEST TO REPRESENT ERSKINE AT GREENWOOD IN THE S. C. ORATORICAL CONTEST. ROM the four comers of Europe were drawn thefounders of the Httle settlements that were, in the courseof human events, destmed to expand into an early settlers were not the visionary heroes ourhistorians have held up before us; they were onlysimple men and women of the seventeenth century,with all the faults and fanaticisms of their age. Theywere, however, a people inured to labor; they had beenstormed by the rugged forces of experience, and they had fled to an unknownregion for the sake of an ideal. This ideal was unconquerable freedom; free-dom of institutions, freedom of thought, and freedom of religion. Led on bysuch men as Roger Williams, who saw a clear-shining inward light not to bedimmed by the deft logic of a disputacious age, they established on a firm foun-dation each of these constituents of perfect liberty. Altho the original co
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