The wounds inflicted were deep and cruel. no man being willing to prophesy when their memory would pass away. But today Missouri sends to the National Capitol and to Statuary Hall the marble images of two men whose whole public lives were given to the cause of free soil and against the further extension of African slavery. Immediately after the Revolutionary war. and even before it had closed. emigrants commenced passing over the Appalachian Range into the gloomy forests of Kentucky and Tennessee to contest supremacy over the soil with the Indians and wild beasts. This emigration was composed largely of ScotchIrish blood. that most remarkable of all the races which have existed upon this continent. independent. selfwilled. impatient of restraint. yet not given to disorder. every man a soldier and his own leader. every woman fit to be the mother of heroes. This ScotchIrish blood has given to the Western States. into which they went. blazing the paths of civilization with the ax in one hand and the rifle in the other. men who have impressed themselves in war and peace upon these great communities. I Nearly all the leading families of Tennessee.
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Generalization about the Scotch-Irish race being independent, self-willed, and composed of soldiers and mothers of heroes.