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3 STATEIVIENT OF THOIVIAS CAKLYLE.
THOMAS CARLYLE's STATEMENT.
A letter of Thomas Carlyle, on July 19, 1841, in Reid's
Life of Milnes (Lord Houghton), London, 1891, Vol. I, page
265, to R. M. Milnes, gives an account of his visit to Tynemouth,
and says that he " admired the rugged energy of that
population, and how completely Annandale Scotch they are.
From the Humber to the Forth, still more from the Tyne to
the Forth, I find no real distinction at all, except what John
Knox introduced ; it is all Scotch— Scotch in features and
face, in character, in dialect and speech. You, too, if yon
behave yourselves, shall be accounted Scotch ! They are all
Danes, these people ; stalwart Normans, terrible sea-kings ;
are now terrible drainers of morasses, terrible spinners of
yarn, coal borers, removers of mountains ; a people terrible
from the beginning. The windy Celts of Galloway, you see,
not many miles from this, in the edge of Nithesdale."
The foregoing in relation to the derivation, significance,
and orthograj)hy of the Allison name, together with the copious
extracts from the admirable work of Henry Brougham
Guppy, and quotations from other able writers, taken in connection
with the following chapter— '•' The Scotch-Irish : Who
Were They?"—shows conclusively the blood to which the
Scotch Allisons belonged who lived in Scotland, then in Ireland
and England, and later in America. They were Scotch
always, and of the Anglo-Saxon-Norman race.
So many of these Allisons originated in Scotland, then
emigrated to the province of Ulster in Ireland, and removed
later to the United States and Canada, that it is appropriate
that a fuller account of their origin, blood, and race should
be given in order to correct misapprehension in relation to
the term Scotch-Irish. It is applied to a people wholly of
Scotch blood. Important facts are included in the following
chapter, ''The Scotch-Irish: Who Were They?"