The school physiology journal . nothing could break down, and PresidentHayes his honesty, independence and deter-mination to stand by the right though theheavens should fall. In 1856, George Chambers wrote : TheScotch-Irish have furnished a majority of theUnited States senators since the organizationof the Federal Union. Six of the signers of the Declaration of In-dependence were Scotch-Irish. Thirteen ofour presidents ._, in their remote or immediate jfa Wb. ancestry are ofScotch, Irish, orScotch-Irish ex-traction. Presi-dent McKinleystands conspic-uous in the of the dis-tinguished
The school physiology journal . nothing could break down, and PresidentHayes his honesty, independence and deter-mination to stand by the right though theheavens should fall. In 1856, George Chambers wrote : TheScotch-Irish have furnished a majority of theUnited States senators since the organizationof the Federal Union. Six of the signers of the Declaration of In-dependence were Scotch-Irish. Thirteen ofour presidents ._, in their remote or immediate jfa Wb. ancestry are ofScotch, Irish, orScotch-Irish ex-traction. Presi-dent McKinleystands conspic-uous in the of the dis-tinguished cabi-net officers havebeen Scotch-Irish, James , for asingle example. The field of literature does not lack repre-sentatives of this race of blood and Gray, the distinguished botanist, was oneof the number, Edgar Allen Poe, WashingtonIrving, and John Lothrop Motley. HoraceGreeley was Scotch-Irish from both sides ofhis family. In oratory, the names of Calhoun, StephenDouglass, Daniel Webster, and Patrick Henry. 84 SCHOOL PHYSIOLOGY JOURNAL. stand out as Scotchmen whose voices havethrilled waiting multitudes. They have been leaders in other T. Stewart, the merchant prince of NewYork, and the Brown Brothers, bankers of in-ternational reputation, were Scotch-Irish. They have been explorers as well as Rogers Clark was a Scotchman, andDr. Elisha Kane, the Arctic explorer, wasScotch-Irish ; so also was Robert Fulton whoinvented the first steamboat. The most prominent characteristic of theScotch-Irish people is said to be endure hardships with a persistency andheroism unsurpassed in the annals of tenacity of purpose is often called by themore unfriendly name of obstinacy. The hard-headed Scotchman is proverbial, and equallyexpressive is the petition, Grant, O Lord,that the Scotchman may be right, for if wronghe is wrong eternally. The Scotch-Irish frontiersmen were aggres-sive fighters. They would not be trifled
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