CYRUS HALL McCORMICK 



a new industry and hold fast to it against all 

 comers. 



The Scotch-Irish! The full story of what the 

 United States owes to this fire-hardened race 

 has never yet been told, it is a tale that will 

 some day be expanded into a fascinating volume 

 of American history. It is not possible to under- 

 stand either the character or the success of 

 McCormick without knowing the Scotch-Irish 

 influences that shaped him. 



The one man who did more to launch the 

 Scotch-Irish on their conquering way, so it 

 appears, was John Knox. This preacher- 

 statesman, "who never feared the face of man," 

 forced Queen Mary from her throne, and estab- 

 lished self-government and a pure religion in 

 Scotland, about seventy-five years after the dis- 

 covery of America. This brought English armies 

 down upon the Scotch, and for very nearly two 

 centuries the struggle was bitter and desperate, 

 the Scotch refusing to compromise or to bate 

 one jot or tittle of a covenant which many of 

 them had signed with their blood. 



At the height of this conflict, about 300,000 



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