Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-08-11

Scottish Presbyterisns, from 1870 t
1855, when " the majority of the gentry
who cherished the spirit Of piety ant
/ Independence which had animated thei
fathers, were excluded from all offices o
trust or influence by p%ernicious tests
and twO-thirds Of the industrious, sobeI
inhabitants of the country were peTsecu-
/ ted and harassed for their religious opin
ions; when the very habits which in th'
naturnaI and ordinary intercourse Of life
made men good members Of society
were prescribed as the marks Of sedition
and a standing army was ready to enforce
the commands of an almost despoti'
King The people were first oppressed
and then punished for complaining o
oppression. Garrisous were placed il
different places; aud yet Sir PATRICB
/ HOME Of Polwart dared to oppose this
" as intolerabIe fetters upon the Liberties
/ Of the people" and resisted payment @
the arbitrary exactiOns for their supper
in his own shire. He was, for that
declared incapable Of al public trust
and committed prisoner to Stirling
Castle.
Scotland was then ruled by spostates
who had changed their religion from
motives Of s~eIf-lnterest, from the fear o
losing their Iivings and p]referments
Tley thought BeAkc dread ought to hGU,
the like influence on all. "When they
saw it otherwise, they were e~xasperateC
at a virtue they had believed in
and affected to attribute to obstinacy
that intrepid spirit which forbade a dere,
LECTION Of principle, although at the ex-
pense of every external comfort. THt
more the C0nUenticlcg 5gGre p~srsecuted.
the more they fOUrisded." Eight thou,
sand savage m|ountsiueers were brought
l down from the Highlands, to afford q
precedent for the 4" state Guards" lei
loose on Tennessee; and the Scottish
! council granted them IN indemnity ii
/ Advance, " for all maimings or murders o.
which they might be guilty, evidently
NTH a UieW that the Western counties
would be provoked to r~esist.n These pro.
| totypes of the Uncultvated banditti'
of Tennessee, to whom a like immunity
is guaranteed, pillaged the whole coun'
try Of everything, even the kitchen fur
uiture of the poor not unfrequently
stripping travellers upon the highways, OF
their stockings and shoes, and other az
ticies Of wearing apparel
The people, thus "eXposed to the
worst excuses which a brutal soldiery
are wont to exercise ia 4 conquered
country, were so generally convinced OF
its being the intention of Government
TO excite them to insurrection, that they
suffered themselves TO be despoiled Of
their property, impTis0ned, abused and
tortured, without aifoTding their Op-
pressors the smallest occasion for ac-
cusing them Of any crime, unless that
Of q rooted aversion to prelacy Of which
such apostles and such methods Of in
sTuction, were not very likely to render
them more e~namOured.
In 1913, a new Proclamation was pub
Hshed, 81" forbidding any nobleman OF
gentleman to leave the country, dread
ing the effect their representations
might have upon the King and the peo-
pie Of England" Thus the peopie were
not only cut OF from all prospect Of relief
but from that Of having their grievances
heard. Did every q then keep very
quiet, and let matters take their course, +"
because The bayonet was at their throats,
and exile and ruin held out their shad-
owy hands.
No: the Earl Of CAssILIs, q n0bleman
who inherited the spirit Of the pupil Of
BUCHANAN, submitted 20 necessity but,
NTH the dignJfed repugnance of q free
man WhO 00as tCrOHgod, He DID NOT SUB
NIT IN SILENCE. he asserted the right
Of his sOunty1nen, and by an avowal OF
his disa-ppro5ation, called down upon
him the vengeance Of the Junta. For
some time he stood alone, and his cram
pie remains, to shOg h0JU much Of public
utility may be called into action IN the
INFECTIOUS resistance Of one no6lemdn Of
irreprOachd6is charGcter.D The South
mas many sons, born Of her own bosom,
as worthy and ir~reproachable as the
Earl Of CAssILIs. He was denounced as
a rebel, and to avoid being apprehended,
sought refuge at Court and "with a
freedom pleasant to remark in an age Of
abasement, be boldly told his Sovereign
the truth. And yet, in Scotland at that
day, " assassination was sanctioned by
Statute, hospitality was a capital crime,
common courtesy was punishable by
death TO petition was treason, to talk Of
legal redress vas the certain road to a
jail, and TO utter 2 complaint was, in the
phrase Of the country, to sign ones own
Punishment" During the year l67s.
sixty-seven respectable members of
society, some Of them ministers. the
generality househoiders, and some wri-
ters, were shipped at Leith, to be trans
ported to the Indies by RALPH VIII
Hanson, Of London. 10 be there disposed
Of 10 the best advantage
In 1879, the prisoners taken at Both.
well bridge were offered bonds Of peace.
by which they were to engage them
selves never TO lake arms or resist the
King or any Of bis authorities. Num-
bers to whom these were first offered.
anxious to escape from their deplorable
situation, were induced to subscribe
"but when the subject was debated
among the rest, they considered that by
agreeing to these conditions, Mcy con
deunod the conduct Of their friends ,clo
had fallen, and gave their assent to the
doctrine Of pdssiUe obedience, and they
! hesitated and as some Of the most zeal.
GUS asserted that compliance was an ap-
Proval Of the tyranny in Church and
State, with which the land was afflicted,
and a denial Of nc cause for aUhich dhey
had risen, several hundreds determined
70 endure the utmost extremity, rather
than submit; and this st~eadiness OF prin-
ciple, which their Oppressors termed OBJ
stinscy, was punished by death or
slavery"
The more ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Pres
byterians, the more they were prosecuted,
chung the more closely 10 the tenets for
which they suffered. A few, q remnant
they called themselves, were marked out
as peculiar objects Of vengeance. They
were hunted on the mountains, and ex-
cluded from the protection Of the laws,
as we virtually are in Tennessee; and
their preachers were reduced to two,
Corga and Cameron.
"Few as they were, however, they deter
mined to maks 8 full and open confession
and defence Of the doctrines Of the refor-
nation" which were no desrer to them
than the invaluable principles Of constt-
tutioDsl liberty ought to be t US; 81 to
protest against the Infringement Of their
aiv;l and religious liberties, and renOunce