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It is the foot-loose, those who have nothing to lose and much to gain, and (quite naturally) those who have not scrupulously kept all the laws—or who have felt the heavy hand of church discipline--who are most attracted to a new frontier. The first miners in California, the debtors sent to Georgia, the 'criminals' deported to Australia, were likewise held in scorn by upright stay-at-homes. What they made of themselves, and what their sons became, indicate that, for all the hard things said about
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― Scotch-Irish: A Social History
― Scotch-Irish: A Social History
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Call this war by whatever name you may,' declared a beleaguered Hessian captain. 'Only call it not an American rebellion, it is nothing more or less than a Scottish Irish Presbyterian rebellion.
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