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	Society of the United Scotsmen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Society of the United Scotsmen was formed in the late eighteenth century and sought widespread political reform in Scotland.
		The United Scotsmen were particularly adept at gaining support from the working classes of Scotland who stood to gain by becoming politically enfranchised as the society sought.
		The United Scotsmens aims in the rebellion were to establish a Provisional Scottish Government with Thomas Muir as President.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_Scotsmen (633 words)

	Encyclopedia: Society of the United Irishmen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The United Irishmen was a staunchly non-sectarian body and sought to unite all Irishmen, regardless of religion or descent.
		The opposite of what the United Irishmen were about occurred at Scullabogue in County Wexford when scores of Loyalists and their wives and children were burnt alive in reprisal for atrocities by the Crown forces (see Scullabogue Barn Massacre), although many of the attackers and about 20 of the victims were Catholic.
		The United Irishmen were severely persecuted in the years following the rebellion although a final attempt to revive their fortunes was made in 1803 by Robert Emmet.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Society-of-the-United-Irishmen (2247 words)

	The United Scotsmen and the Insurrection of 1798 - by Peter Berresford Ellis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		By the Spring of 1797, the United Scotsmen were active, based on local cells of not more than sixteen people sending a delegate to committees at parochial, then county and then national level.
		The last record of a United Scotsmen having been tried before the courts for the serious crime of sedition was the trial in 1802 of Thomas Wilson, a Fife weaver, and a delegate to the National Convention.
		The most tragic blow to the United Scotsman was, of course, the death in January, 1799, at the age of thirty-three of Thomas Muir at Chantilly.
	srsm.port5.com /scotradhist/us1798.html (1669 words)

	The 1820 Rising - The 1820 Rising
		Mealmaker and his United Scotsmen may not have been the originators of this programme but at the very least they must be identified as remarkably astute and farsighted persons who had the capacity to set the agenda for generations to come.
		The United Scotsmen administered an oath to new entrants.
		With the punishment of Mealmaker, the activities of the United Scotsmen appear to have ceased, though ex-members and supporters would nurse their hopes in secret through the ensuing years.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/1820/1820_rising.htm (7121 words)

	All Hail the English Workers Republic! by Jeff Fallow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The three organisations were independent but in contact with one another and united in their overall aim of breaking up the UK and establishing three separate but allied republics of Ireland, Scotland and England.
		In Scotland, the United Scotsmen organisation was quelled and Mealmaker was sentenced to 14 years’ penal servitude in Australia.
		Meanwhile the United Englishmen met secretly in the Cock and Neptune Inn, London, and planted organisers in villages, mines and factories throughout the English Midlands.
	srsm.port5.com /swr/englishworkersrepublic.html (1148 words)

	Society
		Geological Society of London The Geological Society of London is a United Kingdom with the aim of "investigating the min...
		Society of the United Irishmen The Society of the United Irishmen was a political organisation in 1791 and passed the fo...
		Society of the United Scotsmen The Society of the United Scotsmen was formed in the late Society of the United Irishmen....
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/society.html (5362 words)

	The 1798 Rebellion in Ireland
		In short, although the name of the United Irishmen was honoured, their democratic ideas were buried even before the formation of the 26 county state.
		The United Irishmen organisation in the area before the rising was too small to make much progress in overcoming this feeling, and in fact one of their tactics added to the sectarian tension.
		The rebellion of the United Irishmen was not a rebellion for four abstract green fields, free of John Bull.
	flag.blackened.net /revolt/rbr/rbr4_1798.html (7504 words)

	Scotland & Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Irish monks led the christianisation of a kingdom which was first united under Irish kings and called after them by the name of Scotland.
		The influence of the Enlightment and the American and French revolutions saw the advent of republicanism in Ireland and Scotland with the United Irishmen and United Scotsmen.
		Now in 1999 the United Kingdom is itself being restructured with devolved parliaments in Scotland and Wales and an ongoing peace-process in Northern Ireland.
	www.historyireland.com /magazine/features/scotland.html (508 words)

	[No title]
		The kind of democracy for which Scotsmen have deemed that the world should be made safe is a human brotherhood, indeed, but a brotherhood imbued with the generous rivalry of effort, the enthusiasm of emulous achievement, and not one of inglorious, monotonous and colorless equality.
		John Cabell Breckenridge, son of Joseph C. Breckenridge, was Vice-President of the United States (1857-61), candidate of the Southern Democrats for President in 1860, General in the Confederate Armies (1862-64), Confederate Secretary of War till 1865.
		Thomas Ewing (1789-1871), was United States Senator from Ohio (1831-37), Secretary of the Treasury (1841), Secretary of the Interior (1849-50).
	www.gutenberg.org /files/15162/15162.txt (18243 words)

	James D
		United Scotsmen – organization that received significant working class support in the 1790s, combining nationalism and class issues.
		"The underground United Scotsmen were clearly involved in the widespread anti-Militia riots from which not even the Highlands were immune; and in 1797 the indigenous elite in Edinburgh asked the authorities in Whitehall to withdraw all the Scottish troops and replace them with English regiments.
		But in the years from the 1830s to the 1880s there was little to fill the lives of Scotsmen except work and drink.
	frontpage.uwsuper.edu /hudelson/Young.htm (1918 words)

	Radicalism in Scotland
		The Scotsmen seemed to be following the United Irishmen, a more powerful grouping whose experience was injected into the Scotsmen via the Irish immigrant weavers.
		Not only could it be deemed a failure, but it even increased inequities as the radicals scared the majority into the conservative camp.(footnote 14) He has decided that though authorities feared the spread of working class radicalism, it was ineffectual, poorly led, and died a quick death.
		Young contends that there was far more radical support in Scotland than other historians consider, claiming that the massive government attempts to silence dissent shows that it must have been there.(footnote 17) He sees the movement in Scotland as both republican and nationalist, and believes that the authorities' fear of radicalism was certainly justified.
	www.hfienberg.com /scots/scotradical.html (2161 words)

	Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How
		Although today the campaign to remove Ireland from the United Kingdom is led mainly be catholics, the soicety was formed largely by Belfast protestants.
		With promises of French aid the United Irishmen instigated a rising against British rule in 1798.
		The fleet was intercepted by the British Navy and Wolfe Tone was captured.
	www.irelandinformationguide.com /United_Irishmen (474 words)

	This Month in Celtic History - February 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		While the doomed uprising of the United Irishmen in 1798 resonates to the present day, less well known are the United Scotsmen and their abortive democratic republican movement in Scotland.
		One of the most prominent of the United Scotsmen was George Mealmaker, born in Dundee on 10 February 1768.
		But despite the similarity of their names, the stated aims of the United Scotsmen had more to do with promoting parlimentary reform in Britain than in supporting the nationalist goals of their Irish namesakes, or with promoting the idea of Scottish independence outright.
	www.celticleague.org /history_2-02.html (533 words)

	WALDEN HAPPENINGS BY DOC FENNESSY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Scotsmen founded the navies of the United States and Russia and half of the banks in England and France.
		More than fifty-percent of the Presidents of the United States have been of Scottish name or partly descent, as half of the Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom for over a century.
		You Scotsmen and Irish, and those that wish they were, can sing it in a traditional celebration of thanks in addition to “Auld Lang Syne” on New Year’s Eve.
	www.montgomerycountynews.net /walden01-01-03.htm (1128 words)

	The Badger's Sett
		Contrary to the wishes of the United Nations and in breach of its Charter, an imperialist war has been launched against a weak Third World country which is rich in its resources.
		The ideal of a united and free Ireland is under grave threat....and those who adhere to the political philosophy of national self-determination are under constant harassment and intimidation from the political police of the 26 and 6 County statelets.
		Following its signing five years ago RSF warned that due to its inherent contradictions, promising Nationalists on the one hand that it would lead to a free and united Ireland whilst on the other promising Unionists that it would strengthen the 'union' with Britain, it was doomed to failure.
	radio.weblogs.com /0100730/categories/saoirse (6017 words)

	Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Exceptions include the Isle of Man, which is now a crown dependency outside the United Kingdom, Orkney and Shetland, which are Scottish rather than Norwegian, and Berwick-upon-Tweed, which was defined as subject to the laws of England by the 1746 Wales and Berwick Act.
		HM Queen Elizabeth II, head of state of the United Kingdom, is descended from King James VI of Scotland, the first Scottish monarch to also be King of England (James I of England from 1603).
		In 1707, the Scottish and English Parliaments signed the Treaty of Union, which was deeply unpopular in Scotland, as it had been negotiating from a position of economic weakness and suffering from English tariffs.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/S/Scotland.htm (4306 words)

	The United Scotsmen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The United Irishmen (UI) had been formed in 1791 but the failure of their constitutional approaches led to their adoption of an openly revolutionary programme in 1795.
		Societies of United Scotsmen (US) had existed since the early 1790s but after being invited to re-organise along Irish lines their philosophy became overtly revolutionary and their strategy insurrectionary.
		The United Journeymen Shoemakers of Edinburgh had been formed to negotiate higher wages and support the unemployed, but when they tried to strike for higher wages in 1798 the authorities stepped in and tried them for ‘combination’.
	srsm.port5.com /redduster/united_scotsmen.html (3882 words)

	Leslie Stephen - The English Utilitarians In Five Webpages Page Three - Chapter Three
		The parish, the unit on which the pauper had claims, meant the persons upon whom the poor-rate was assessed.
		In 1786 John Acland (died 1796), a Devonshire clergyman and justice of the peace, proposed a scheme for uniting the whole nation into a kind of friendly society for the support of the poor when out of work and in old age.
		Meanwhile, although the need of schools was beginning to be felt, the appliances for education in England were a striking instance of the general inefficiency in every department which needed combined action.
	evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com /stephen03.htm (11981 words)

	The Project Gutenberg eBook of Scotland's Mark On America, by George Fraser Black. Ph.D.
		The most famous of the family was General George Brinton MacClellan (1826-85), Major-General in the United States Army during the Civil War, unsuccessful candidate of the Democratic Party for President in 1864, and Governor of New Jersey from 1878 to 1881.
		His son, James, was the largest planter in the United States on his death in 1865.
		John Maclean (1785-1861), Postmaster-General from 1823 to 1829, was later Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court of Ohio, and unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for President in 1856 and again in 1860.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/5/1/6/15162/15162-h/15162-h.htm (16856 words)

	Scotland - A Concise History - British Scotland
		There thus developed the 'United Scotsmen' (the title imitative of the already existing 'United Irishmen') organised in local branches and district committees, meeting clandestinely, members being known only by the name of the village, town or area branch which had sent them as delegates.
		The 'United Scotsmen', back in the 1790s, had demanded votes for all men, votes by ballot, annual General Elections, and the payment of MPs; and these demands were the basis of the political agitation which grew during the immediate post-war years.
		Chartism was strong in Scotland, and Scots showed their historical awareness by giving to Chartist branches or clubs the names of Andrew Hardie, or John Baird, or James Wilson or Thomas Muir, and many clubs took to themselves the name of Robert Burns.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/scotland/chap11.htm (3842 words)

	CHAPTER 4 - When is a Friendly Society Not a Friendly Society? By Dr Bob James
		The bulk of the founding fathers had received their initiations in that London 'Order' but in seeking legitimacy were aided firstly by a travelling brother from the MU Duke of York Lodge at Preston, then by the MU's Grand Committee meeting at Manchester.
		This was attacked variously by the authorities through the anxious 1790's and finally proscribed in 1799 along with the United Irishmen, United Englishmen, United Scotsmen and the United Britons.
		The 'Society of United Irishmen of Dublin', was formally established in a Dublin tavern in 1791.
	www.takver.com /history/benefit/ctormys-04.htm (17267 words)

	portland imc - 2005.07.04 - Ireland’s Place In The Struggle Against Imperialism EIRE NUA is the answer!
		The founders of the Society of United Irishmen, such as Theobald Wolfe Tone, Henry Joy McCracken and Thomas Russell all were inspired by the American War of Independence, particularly its more progressive elements, with Thomas Paine's 'Rights Of Man' having a significant impact.
		However the United Irishmen also developed links beyond France, in particular with the Society of United Scotsmen, Thomas Muir one of their leaders was an honoury United Irishman.
		We are all united in a common struggle to establish in the world a community of free nations.
	portland.indymedia.org /en/2005/07/320809.shtml (2187 words)

	uefa.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Yet, according to their Georgian defender Zurab Khizanishvili, the Lights Blues' foreign legion are fully aware of the extra significance of the United match.
		Despite their respect for United, there is no inferiority complex emanating from Ibrox.
		Rangers, who beat their last English opponents, Leeds United AFC, home and away in the 1992/93 Champions League, lead Group E with four points from their two matches - a 2-1 home victory over VfB Stuttgart and 1-1 draw at Panathinaikos FC.
	es.uefa.com /news/newsId=121312,printer.htmx (521 words)

	THE CAMERONIANS AND THE RECLAIMING OF SCOTLAND'S REVOLUTIONARY TRADITION - Word Power
		The official name of the group was the United Societies; their better known name the Cameronians.
		It is a major achievement of the United Societies that they kept a record of many of those killed and made sure their names were remembered".
		The Cameronians, like the later United Scotsmen and, in particular, like John Maclean, were Scottish internationalists.
	www.word-power.co.uk /platform/6 (3579 words)

	The 1798 rebellion in Ireland and it's meaning today
		Robert Simms was Adjacent-General of the United Irishmen in the north and he simply refused to acknowledge that the signal from Dublin indicated he should rise.
		Like other republicans of that period the United Irishmen for the most part did not see a role for women although "one proposal was made that women should have the vote as well"[111].
		We know a lot of the leadership of the United Irishmen were not so driven by ideals and indeed when the time came rather then risk what they had they stayed at home or even betrayed the rebellion.
	flag.blackened.net /revolt/andrew/1798_p2.html (5878 words)

	Kenny Sheerin
		One of Scottish Republicanisms earliest victories came with the taking of Menzies Castle during the 1797 United Scotsmen uprising, and organisation that grew through the influence of their sister organisation, the United Irishmen.
		United Scotsmen were at the forefront of the 1820 Insurrection and General Strike (the first of its kind on this Island).
		It is a matter of public record that he was a member of the United Scotsmen before later organising the Condorrat Radicals.
	kennysheerin.blogspot.com (3682 words)

	Growth In Glumness For Scotsmen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The authors appear to conclude that changes in gender roles are the most likely factor.
		In the United Kingdom, 1 in 8 people will be treated for a mental health problem at some point in their lives.
		The majority are women, but a new study from the Royal Edinburgh Hospital shows that the men are catching up.
	www.scienceagogo.com /news/19980415143844data_trunc_sys.shtml (407 words)

	e-Keltoi: Volume 2, Cultural Survival - Michael Newton, Becoming Cold-hearted like the Gentiles Around Them: Scottish ...
		The failure of Gaelic to thrive in the United States is evident in the lack of development of effective strategies to buttress the language.
		In fact, some Irish Gaels in the United States seem to have believed that their linguistic differences were minor, and that by creative linguistic harmonization the two groups could join and thus better survive.
		The reason of his letter to us is to attract the attention of Scotsmen in the United States and the Dominion of Canada; and seldom has an appeal come from Scotland to her sons here for a purpose more deserving of speedy attention and liberality.
	www.uwm.edu /Dept/celtic/ekeltoi/volumes/vol2/2_3/newton_2_3.html (17926 words)

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