Edinburgh, Nov. 26.
The Hon. John W. Davis, Ambassador of the United States, erossed the Border into Scotland mission of amity. Tu Edinburgh, in presence of a distinguished' and influential assemblage, he inaugurated a Scoto-American Association, whose object is to "pluck out of the red ash of war the splendid flower" of _international friendship. This Scoto-American Entente is not, however, a new thing; during these past months we have had pleasing experiences of its existence. The American soldiers and soldier-students who were drifted to Europe on the tides of war seemed to gravitate towards our Scottish cities and Universities in larger numbers than in other directions. And they found themselves, according to their own account, more at home and more welcome than at any other place.
The citizen soldiers from across the Atlantic were never weary of reminding us that Scotland had given some of her best blood and brains to the founding and upholding of the United States. Mr. Davis took up the same tale. He said that "there had been no crisis in the life of the American people that did not find a Scotsman in the forefront." He quoted the names of the Scots who had a hand in signing the Declaration of Independence, in framing the American Constitution, in fighting for or against the Union in the Civil War. Then Mr. Davis played up to 2 notorious Scottish weakness—a weakness that has become a stock Scottish joke—by claiming that ie had Scottish blood in his veins. This claim is not compulsory on every distinguished visitor within our borders, but it is generally ex pected. It appears, according to 'Mr. Davis' own account, that on the distaff side he is a member of
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