k, and French
under the Rev. Mr. Douglas, a Scotchman, living with the minister
at the same time. At fourteen, and after his father's death, he
goes away to attend the school of Mr. Murray, a Scotchman; and
when he goes to college at Williamsburg, being then a young man
grown, he becomes strongly attached to one Professor Small, a
Scotchman. In short, Jefferson was peculiarly attached to the
Scotch, and why?

2. Because he was nearer related to them by "_common blood_" than
to the English. He was of Welsh origin--a perfect Celt, and not a
Briton. Now, the Cimbri of Wales and the Gael of Scotland are of
the same blood, build, habits, and instincts. Jefferson, on Scotch
soil, would have been taken, from personal appearance, to be a
red-headed Scotchman, and a fine specimen at that. From "_common
blood_," then, he could not consistently have written it, if he
knew any thing about his origin, or comprehended what he was
writing.

But there is an argument in this connection, which goes toward the whole
instrument, showing that Mr. Jefferson could not possibly be the author
of it. In a special commentary of Mr. Jefferson's on this phrase,
"_Scotch and foreign mercenaries_," he misquotes the Declaration, which
he would not be likely to do if he wrote it. In volume viii, page 500,
of his works, he says: "When the Declaration of Independence was under
the consideration of Congress, there were two or three _unlucky_
expressions in it, which gave offense to some members. The words,
'_Scotch and other foreign auxiliaries_' excited the ire of a gentleman
or two of that country." In the phrase "Scotch and other foreign
auxiliaries," Jefferson is trying to quote the words "Scotch and foreign
_mercenaries_." There is a vast difference between the two words
"auxiliaries" and "mercenaries." But the former expresses the real
spirit of Jefferson, the latter of Paine. Entirely different sentiments
produced the two expressions. The style, also, is changed from Paine's
to Jefferson's, by putting in the word "other." It is thus changed from
the concise to the diffuse. Mr. Jefferson says this expression was
"unlucky;" and it still proves to be, near the close of a century.

Now, the word mercenaries, which, with the author of the Declaration,
means prostituted hirelings, is used twice in the instrument, but
auxiliaries, which would mean honorable allies, _is not used once_. It
is not strange that he should fo