Excerpt from Annual Meeting and Banquet of the Pennsylvania Scotch-Irish Society, 1890 But we have an object other and somewhat higher even than this proper undertaking. We would be custodians of heroic deeds and traditional memories. While we have been chiefly busied in making fresh history, we have already made large and goodly history. It is worth keeping and telling. Many an old tradition, wholly or largely historic, lingers round the ingle-nooks and stirs to golden deeds the sons and daughters of our race. Many a valuable genealogy lives in the firm gripping memory of some grandfather or mother. But these living libraries are fast disappearing. We want to save their all-precious treasures for ourselves, and the historians of our own and our ancestral lands. Too long we have dallied, while voices have been stilled and hands have dropped that could have witnessed, We saw and we did. By this organization we would call out all this lore and story; we would store it in safety and use it for history and inspiration. Even higher still we aim; we would educate ourselves and others. We are persuaded that to our race, as to all great and formative peoples, have been given, through special training and experiences, distinguishing features Of character, great maxims, and guiding principles. Time and place suffer me not to go into these marks. But we see them stand like great monuments along our ancestral pathways. We feel that we ourselves need to remember the days of old - what was done, and, above all, why it was done, by what, and for what. By study and discussion we would replant the old flags in clear, dry light, and rallying round them restir our souls to a new love of deathless principles and to a fresh application of them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.