Southern Mountaineers, The . e crucifix, andthe singing of a song that proved to be The Wearingof the Green, and those Hibernian signs were all ex-plained and justified when it was found that a soldierof a forgotten Irish regiment had married a nativewoman and reared a family in that lonely recess ofthe mountains. Everything about the family pro-claimed its Irish ancestry. Were all the southernhighlanders to conspire to deny their ancestry, thou-sands of voices would yet cry out of their physical,intellectual, and religious characteristics: Do notdeny the races that gave you birth and heredity
Southern Mountaineers, The . e crucifix, andthe singing of a song that proved to be The Wearingof the Green, and those Hibernian signs were all ex-plained and justified when it was found that a soldierof a forgotten Irish regiment had married a nativewoman and reared a family in that lonely recess ofthe mountains. Everything about the family pro-claimed its Irish ancestry. Were all the southernhighlanders to conspire to deny their ancestry, thou-sands of voices would yet cry out of their physical,intellectual, and religious characteristics: Do notdeny the races that gave you birth and heredity; yourspeech and everything about you betray you; mostof you are Scotch-Irishmen; many of you, especiallyin Kentucky, are Englishmen; some of you are Hugue-nots and Germans; all of you are descendants of theoriginal stocks with which God peopled the NewWorld. Hold high your heads, for what more couldGod do for men than he had done for you! He pre-pared for you: he gave you great-grandfathers of thebest races he had in THE SOUTHERN MOUNTAINEERS 19 A century and a half have passed away and themen of the mountains of to-day are the descendants of some of those sterling Classes of -p^ey have held lonely state forMountaineers , . • , • * several generations m their Appa-lachian homes; but they are still there to give accountof themselves, and to face the providential have developed among these dwellers in themountains three distinct classes, that must be recog-nized by every judicious student of their history: (i)nominal mountaineers; (2) normal and typical moun-taineers; (3) submerged mountaineers. I. Merely Nominal Mountaineers.—These are thelarge populations that have occupied the fertile and extensive valleys of the Shenan-Class One Is ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ Tennessee, and other rich valleys and plateaus,and have established centers of trade and commercethat have developed such prosperous cities and townsas Birmingham, Chattanooga, Knoxville, Joh
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