Volume 16 , Issue 37

The Ulsterman

The Ulsterman's rise, development and transformation from trustful swain to warrior grim. There was a Capt. Hugh MacGill who was prominent in the city counsels and military defense of Londonderry, and no doubt there were others, perhaps many, but we have noticed that there were Protestant McGills who would not support the Dutchman and who were enrolled in the ranks of the Irish army.

Col. Carmack O'Neill, commanding a regiment in the Irish army, was a Protestant, and in his line were two officers supposed to be of the same faith, Lieut. Carman McGill and Ensign Neill McGill. Colonel O'Neill was prominent in history . . . was highly connected with he Irish nobility of the time, and it would seem from the names that very friendly relations existed between the O'Neills and the McGills.

The victory at Londonderry belonged to the Ulstermen. There were no others there to share in the laurels, and it was an achievement of momentous importance to Europe and to the whole civilized world. It signalized the supremacy of the Protestant faith in every English speaking nation on the face of the earth.

In one hundred years the Scotch Presbyterians had founded a race the Scotch-Irish race conceived in sin nurtured and matured in fratricidal blood and now they were reaping their reward in bitter humiliation and distress. All the good they had done for England in the subjugation of the Irish went for naught and the day of retribution was at hand.

The immigration to our shores from 1700 to 1775 was very great and mostly of the right kind. The Puritans had set up their Ebinezer at Plymouth Rock, and were calling for their liberty-loving friends across the sea to come hither. The Scotch and Irish poured into Philadelphia and Baltimore at the rate of twelve thousand per annum, and pushed West and South and fortified in their log cabins against Indian depredation and British aggression.
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