Monday, September 07, 2020
Scotch-Irish
Thomas Cary Johnson, The Life and Letters of Robert Lewis Dabney (Richmond: The Presbyterian Committee of Publication, 1903), p. 109 (quoting from a letter of July 30, 1849):
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The Scotch-Irish are the most inflexible people in the world when they are right, and the most vexatiously pig-headed and mulish when wrong, on the face of the earth.The blood that flows in my veins is, I estimate, composed of the following parts: 1/2 French, 3/8 Scotch-Irish, 1/8 German. Some people discount the existence of national characteristics like those Dabney mentions. Being inflexible, pig-headed, and mulish, I don't.
