***A quick note before reading this quote. By the 1900’s the term “Scotch” referring to Scottish people started to become a racial slur. President Taylor’s usage of the term here in this next quote was before the meaning of the word had changed to a negative meaning in the United States. Much like the extremely inappropriate “n” word used for Black people, the word “Scotch” is an insulting word today, should not be used, and no one should ever ask permission from a Scottish person to use it.

“In speaking with a gentleman recently on some of the difficulties between the English and the Irish people, I told him that it was lamentable that such a feeling should exist. “Well”, said he, “they are two different races and they cannot affiliate, one being Celtic and the other Anglo-Saxon, and their sympathies and feelings are dissimilar. Their ideas and feelings differ; their education and their instincts differ.” That is very true so far as it goes. But what of us? We are gathered here under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, and that as I before said, produces a unity of feeling and spirit, a oneness and sympathy that does not exist in the world, and Jesus has said, “By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.” (John 13:35.) . . . And how is it, brethren? Are we Scandinavians; are we English; are we Scotch, Swiss or Dutch, as the case may be? No; the Spirit of God, which we obtained through obedience to the requirements of the gospel, having been born again, of the water and of the Spirit, has made us of one heart, one faith, one baptism; we have no national or class divisions of that kind among us. We are not all alike. Our faces are different, our habits are different, although made of the same material and possessing the same kind of an organization. So dissimilar are we that you can hardly find two people alike. I do not want everybody to think as I do, I am willing to grant every one a great amount of leeway in regard to these things; but I would like to see everybody do right and cleave to God. And as for a great many other little things I care very little about them.”