Volume 16 , Issue 37

The Scot, Scot Celt, Irish Celt and Scotch Irish

The Scot was not an aborigine of Scotland. He came in with the Celtic invasion of the British Islands before history was written. It is probable that the settlement of England and Scotland were simultaneous or very nearly so.

Some writers think that he was derived from the aboriginal Scuite, and others that he was an Irish Celt, who crossed St. Patrick's Channel and possessed himself of the country. The best authority available indicates that the aboriginal tribes known in the vernacular as the Pehts and Scuites . . . by the Romans as Picti and Scotti, and in English as Picts and Scots . . . were primitive tribes of Turanian origin and were of a very low order of being, subsisting more by instinct than intelligence. They belonged to a dying race and became extinct, as did the Turanian tribes on the Continent, with the dawn of civilization and history. They were in no way allied to the Scot-Highlander or Lowlander who were of the pure, indomitable and imperishable Celtic blood. Men become confused with the vat antiquity of the race and misplace events.

It was the Highland and Lowland Scotch Celtic Clans that combined under Kenneth MacAlpine in A. D. 843 and built, and ever after maintained the Kingdom of Scotland.

The wild Highland Clansmen of the North were of the pure Celtic blood, bearing the unmistakable birthmarks of their race. There was no taint of Turanian brutality in their natures; such as corrupted the Germanic Aryans, clouded their mentality and dwarfed their stature. The Highlander was tall athletic, nimble as a deer; crafty, cunning, frugal and affectionate, dangerous to his enemies and loyal to his friends; but he had a sensitive, active brain, that readily grasped the possibilities of his surroundings; analyzed the motives of men, and ultimately placed him in the very vanguard of human progress.

It is said that the Scottish nation in the course of its existence beheaded forty Kings and drove as many more to suicide to escape the inevitable for attempting to usurp the rights of the people . . . the right to live . . . the right to labor and enjoy the fruits of their industry . . . the right to the highway and the products of the forest and the stream the right to settle their disputes in their own way before courts of their own creation, and the right to be heard before condemned. These were inherent in the Scot from his old Celtic ancestry and he stoutly refused to be separated from them.
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