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1699. But the love of the hills was in their blood, and they went 

 westward, into the valley over the Blue Ridge. Thousands of 

 German Lutherans went over in the same period, and also moved 

 into the valley. But about 1730 Logan, the then governor of the 

 colony, enforced some laws that were so offensive to both Pres- 

 byterians and Lutherans that great numbers of both left Penn- 

 sylvania, following the valley west of the Blue Ridge, across the 

 narrow strip of Maryland, and entered Virginia. The Germans 

 settled along the Potomac River. The Scotch-Irish pressed 

 farther southward, and settled in the upper or southern end of the 

 Shenandoah Valley — a region topographically much like the Ards 

 of County Down. 



The fourth locality favoured by the Scotch-Irish settlers was 

 that of North and South Carolina. True to their liking for the 

 mountains, they did not linger in the level coastwise country, but 

 pressed on until they reached them. This entire mountainous 

 region from the northern boundary of Georgia up to the northern 

 portion of Virginia was peopled by the Virginia and Carolina 

 immigrants and their descendants. And these Scotch-Irish have 

 been great as pioneers. They filled these mountain valleys, and 

 then pressed through Cumberland Gap to settle Kentucky. 

 Farther South they found their way across into Tennessee. The 

 city of Knoxville, in the eastern part of that State, in its name, 

 commemorates its founder, a Scotch-Irishman. Lewis and Clark, 

 who led .the first expedition which crossed the continent, were 

 both Scotch-Irish. And to-day men of this blood are prominent 

 in every line of human endeavour in the United States. 



The Scotch-Irish have so far given the United States a very 

 large percentage of statesmen and warriors. Of the 25 Presidents 

 of the United States, six are undoubtedly of Scotch -Irish descent — 

 Jackson, Polk, Taylor, Buchanan, Arthur, and M'Kinley. I had 

 the honour of acquaintance with the latter, who frequently referred 

 humourously to his descent by remarking, " As we Irish say." His 

 ancestral home, as undoubtedly you all know, was at Dervock, 

 County Antrim, a few miles from Ballymoney. President Franklin 

 Pierce is claimed as a Scotch-Irishman, but it seems more probable 



