Nashville Union And American

Welshmen -The Puritans and Huguenots have received well deserved eulogiums for their great men, and great influence on our national welfare. The Welsh have hardly been recognized as having any claims of the kind: but in an address by the Rev Dr. West, on laying the corner-stone of a Welsh Church in Philadelphia lately, their claim has been asserted with an overwhelming array of facts. They have certainly been very modest heretofore on the subject; but "modesty and merit go together," according to the old alliteration. Wales is somewhat larger than Massachusetts. There are about seventy five thousand Welshmen in this country - Dr. West says their patriotism is almost proverbial. He gives the signers of the Declaration of Independence, of Welsh birth or extraction, as follows: Massachusetts, Samuel Adams, John Adams; Rhode Island. Stephen Hopkins; Connecticut, William Williams: New York. William Floyd, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris: Pennsylvania, Francis Hopkinson, Robert Morris, George Clymer; North Carolina, John Penn; South Carolina, Arthur Middleton; Georgia, Button Gwinnett, born in Wales; Virginia, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Richard H. Lee, Francis H. Lee. Here are seventeen signers of the Declaration of American Independence, in whose veins Welsh blood coursed. Dr. West also gave the names of fourteen generals, seven colonels, six captains and one lieutenant, of Welsh descent, who figured in the Revolution, among whom are Anthony Wayne, Charles Lee, Daniel Morgan, John Cadwallader, James Williams, killed at Bennington; Henry Lee, Thomas Marshall Ethan Allen. The Doctor asserted that the following Presidents were of Welsh origin: John Adams. Thos. Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, J. Q. Adams, Wm. H. Harrison, James Buchanan. He also gave the names of a number of prominent and devout ministers of the Gospel, of Welsh origin, who took a part in bidding "God speed" to the friends of freedom during the Revolutionary struggle. Dr. West also made the following statements: Oliver Cromwell, the Protector, was of Welsh descent. William Penn's progenitors were Welsh. Roger Williams was born in Wales. John Milton's mother was a Welsh lady. The Rev. Richard Baxter had his birth in Wales-so say the Welsh writers. The Duke of Wellington's mother descended from the Welsh baronet Sir John Trevor. The warriors. Owen Glendower and Sir John Ap Thomas, were Welshmen. Sir Thomas Picton and Sir Stapleton Cotton, of Waterloo fame, were descended from Wales. The present Chancellor of the Exchequer in England belongs to Radnorshire, Wales The far-famed Rev. Christmas Evans was a Welshman. But a volume, said the speaker. might be filled with names of Welsh fame.--Christian Advocate.