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therefore, as matter Of course, succeeded Queen
Elizabeth as the law6,l heir to. the crown: Eng
land and Scotland were, at that time, at profound
peace with each other, and had been so for many
years. nor did any war ensue upon his accession.
In fact his accession was an event expected by the
whole nation and was received with entire satisfac
ton, and without the slightest opposition at tho
time. -.
One eminent historian says: "Jaraes the vi Of
Scotland and the First If England the son OF Mary,
came to the throne with the unisersal appreciation
of all orders Of the State, Is in bis person were
united every claim that either descent bequest or
Parliamentary sanction could confer"
But says one "the Governors life has been q
busy one, he is politician, . statesman and law
yer, and has never bad time to inform himself in
history" The answer to this is, that man should
never attempt to enlighten the public upon matter
of which he is himself profoundly ignorant But
is this the case with his Excellencyp l think
hardly As lawyer he must bave read Black.
stone, and from him he should have learned better
In Chltty's edition of Blackstone, Book LIST and
chapter Sd, pages 157 and 158 we read as follows
ION the death of Queen Elizabeth, without issue,
the line of Henry VIII became extinct. 1t there
fore became necessary to recur to the other issue of
Henry VII by Elizabeth Of York, his Queen, whose
eldest daughter, Margaret, having married James
~ of Scotland, King James the Sixth of Scotland,
and of England the First was the lineal descendant
from that alliance. So that in his person. as clearly
as in Henry VIII conferred all the claims of differ
ent competitors from the conquest downward, he
being indsputaby the lineal heir of the conqueror
And what is still more remarkable, in his person
also conferred the right of the Saxon monarchs
which had been suspended from the conquest till
his accession For Margaret, the sister of Edgar
Athellng the daughter Of Edward the Outlaw, and
grand. daughter of King Edmond Ironside was the
person in whom the hereditary right of the Saxon
Kings, supposing it not abolished by the conquest
resided; she married Malcolm, King Of Scotland;
and Henry II, by q descent from Matilda, their
daughter, is generally called the restorer of the
Saxon line. But it must be remembered that NAL
colin, by his Saxon Queen had sons as we'll as daugh.
tiers, and that the royal family of Scotland, from
that time downwards, were the offspring of NAL
colin and Margaret Of this royal family King
James the First was the direct linea heir, and,
therefore, united in his person every possible claim
by hereditary right to the English as well as Scot
fish throne, being the heir both of Egbert and Will
liam the Conqueror"
"And in this and no other light
was it taken by the English Parliament; who by
Statute l, James l, c. l, did recognize and &C
knowledge that, Immediately upon the dissolution
and decease of Elizabeth, late Queen of England,
the imperial crown thereof did, by inherent birth
right and lawful and nndoubted succession descend
and come to bis most excellent majesty, as being
lnealy, justly, and lawfully next and sole heir Of
the blood royal Of this realm.'
hope this is sufficient to satisfy every body that
our worthy Governor has, to say the least of it,
been guilty of great mistake. But what could
Scotland, after SO many years Of resistance, over
came the English and forced her King upon them
Did he intend to hold out the idea to our people
that If they would continue the war Tor a century
or two they could overcome the United States and
force jeff Davis successors upon them as their
rulers If so, does he suppose any body will oe-
lleve him when he tells them that he has quit talk.
ing soft nonsense 90 the dear people," which once
enabled him, as he says, to become so successful
sult0r Tor their favOrs-certainly q sort of left.
handed compliment to their integencep There is
no necessity for such tridIng as this. Our cause
has not yet-thank fortune-fallen so low as to
need stimulating by such means if it had, 1t mould
be hopeless inGeed. And besides, our people are
opposed to reconstruction, especially by such pro-
cess as that
But returning to seriousness again, let US notice
few points of English and Scotch history during
me i've centuries which INTERVIEWED between the
Norman conquest and the accession of James vi to
ne English throne. During the latter part of the
thirteenth century powerful effort was made to
'uoJugate Scotland by Edward the l, the ablest of
ne English monarchs, and which all but succeeded.
The attempt was renewed by his son Edward III,
put he was defeated by the Scotch at the battle Of
6annockburn, receiving the greatest overthrow that
nce the conquest has befallen the English ma.
ion From that time to the reign of Henry VIII,
10 serious effort was ever made by any of the Eng
ish monarchs for the conquest of Scotland In the
after part of the reign of Henry VIII, he sent an
,YnndItiOn aCainSt e
vas to effect union between the two countries. by
compelling them to consent to the marriage of their
young Queen, Mary, with his son and successor
Edward vi; and treaty to that effect was made
between the parties. This treaty was, after the
leath Of Henry, violated by the Scotch, who after
Yards sent their Queen to France and betrothed her
% the Dauphin. The Protector, Somerset, again
INVADED Scotland in order to compel the execution
If the treaty, but failed of success The Scottish
Queen was married, first to Francis II of France.
md afterwards to Henry Stuart Lord Darby, by
nhom she became the mother of King James the
xth of Scotland and first of England
The crowns of the two kingdoms were upon his
accession to the throne Of England, united upon one
lead, but there was no political union between the
NO countries. They remained separate and dis.
met nationalites, retaining all their ancient inst-
utons and their separate Legislatures, UNTIL in the
BEGINNING Of the 18th century, during the reign of
lanes great grand daughter, Queen Anne, a union
between the two countries was effected by treaty.
Thus was accomplished BY negotiations in the short
pace of few months what centuries of warfare
lad failed to do The union between the two coun-
rfes was not federal but national. The two king.
Ions of England and Scotland became the compact
;ingdom of Great Britain. The two peoples.
hough inhabiting the same Island, were somewhat
lissimilar in origin, manners, customs, and also
Q the Reformation Of religion. They had been for
nofe than ten centuries the almost constant enc
MES Of each other, and large portion of the time
It open war The great argument used at the time
the negotiations by both parties, was that union
would lay the foundation Of lasting peace; anG
UGH in fact was the result No war has ever since
nsued, growing out of animosities between the two
aces. Scotland at once started upon new career
# glory and prosperity She arose above the stand.
I'D of her former SELF From being ole of the moss
turbulent, her people have become one of the mos;