No matter.

I hate the clown as if he had come yesterday." [157] It seems, however, that such feelings were rare, and that the feud which had long raged between the aboriginal Celts and the degenerate English had nearly given place to the fiercer feud which separated both races from the modern and Protestant colony.
The colony had its own internal disputes, both national and religious.
The majority was English; but a large minority came from the south of Scotland.

One half of the settlers belonged to the Established Church; the other half were Dissenters.

But in Ireland Scot and Southron were strongly bound together by their common Saxon origin.

Churchman and Presbyterian were strongly bound together by their common Protestantism.
All the colonists had a common language and a common pecuniary interest.
They were surrounded by common enemies, and could be safe only by means of common precautions and exertions.