The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1829-04-25

.uion could be expected for this action, they took
prms 10 defend themselves. Their number, small at
Grct soon increased to nearly two thousand and, IN
tbe heat of their rage they determined to march to
Edinburgh to compel the government to redress their
orieyances The wise and the prudent among them
s,w the impolicy of this attempt, and tried every
means to dissuade their friends from their rash pur-
nose. They represented the strength and discipline
If the kings forces and their want of arms and
discipne and the mpossbilitY of procuring skllful
commanders as the gentlemen of their party in the
West. were either in confinement or had fled out OF
tbe country. They exhorted them rather to dispense,
and seek shelter from the cruelty of their oppressors
in Aight and hiding, than thus, unprepared as they
we're to rush on certain destruction. Moreover they
affirmed. that it would be more consistent with the
spirit Of Christianity, yet to try to procure mtga-
ion of their suflerngs by petition and entreaty.
Nevertheless, the multitude afraid to lay down those
arms they had taken up, their minds rendered
desperate by suffering and encouragedb by some OF the
les prudent Of their pastors, directed their march TO-
wards the capital This was the very point which
the persecung government aimed at. They wished
to have some better pretext than they yet had to plum
der and ruin the preshyterans They had often at
tcnpted by their emissaries, to excite nsurrec
ton This their own cruelty had now produced.-
And band, which, at the most, was never more than
two thousand, and which had taken arms without any
previous concertlnent, magnfcd by tire reports Of
the oppreSsOfs, INTO general ana prccohcereu repel
lion of all the West
The result Of this inslrrection is well known. LA
vino reached tile neigborhood If Edinburgh, reduced
by latinc or fear to less than half their former mum
her and having effected nothing to better their cond
ton they were returning pciceably home BY the pont
land Hills when they were pursued and set upon by
Dazcl, at that time comWander Of tHc king i"rceS
in Scotland. They fourlt for some tune win more
spirit than could have been expected from men N
their iororn situation; but party Of soldiers from
another quarter, coming behind them, they We're thrown
into disorder, and put fight. Fifty were killed on
the spot, (where very handsome monument has since
been erected to their memory,) some fell in the pun
suit and a considerable number taken prisoners.
These were treated without mercy. Ten OF them
were executed on the same scatlod, and their heads
and hands sent to lanark, where. in passing, they mad
renewed the covenant. Besides these many were
sent into the west country, and executed before their
own doors.
The prosecutors had now got, we have already
mentioned, the preteXt they wanted and they hesta-
tel not to proceed to the most wanton and most lnhl-
man cruetes. Dalzie and Drummond who Wera
the commanders of the military III the West, adj
dcd the tcrocity Of the Muscoyites lin which service
they had for some time been) to the cool and mick
bIa cruelty which characterised the prosecutors in gen
era. Dragons were stationed in every Villages anG
the private men had power to shoot, without any
form Of trial, all who refused to take the test to gov
ernment. In no place we're the poor scattered mem
beis Of Scotands Church safe from the Vlglian
search of their enemies The rejected clergvmen, es
peclay, pursued with unremthng diligence