Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-09-20
Home of the Lord of LOrne.

A cores pondent OF the London Tel.qraDh ,
writing from Inverary, and speaking of the
coming OF tile Princess Louise to her new
Scottish home, says
20 However the bride may come, she w.il
be reminded on every side OF the mighty
past The bi-gest-u1uJhed thunder THAT
will welcome her advent will come from an
ancient cannon, fshcd up near the Ltpd Of
Null, by an ancestor Of the present Duke.
and supposed 70 he A relic Of the Spanish
Armada. IL was probably captured at the
battle of Pdyia, from the French for the
gun, which is some sixteen feet long, has on
1t the initial f and the vern of saamander
emblem OF Francis l.. which one sees chs
eled all over the famous outside staircase at
BlOis, and IN many another edItice erected in
his reign. Then the very trees, among the
oldest this part OF Scotland, have an his
UoricaI significance, for they were mostly
planted by the unfortunate Earl of MOntrOse
who was beheaded There is an avenue OF
bceches ON the way 10 Dhuloeh, among the
very finest l have ever seen, and a giglntIc
tree, some fifteen feet in -irth aud ninety
icet ia height. Even the yellow and black
hi- tnac waves from the battiement- pre-
uts Iu Itself an CpitJme Of the various
steps which have Jed the Argy.ls 70 their
present high position. The galley or lynn
plad, as the old-.ashi5ned ship ~ technl-
caliy alIci in hcra.irY, has its origin in the
creation Of Colin, IL trl Of Argyll, by james
H.. Just as the chcquers, or the device Of
eight pieces to pay and diamond, to speak
famlliarly, represent the C4mpb-Iis, The
bOars 5 mead, the weu-known device of the
family, is a memento Of q deed Oi sporting
prowess done by Sir Duncan, in the time ot
,ne first james Of Scotland, whom he hbe7
ated from an English prison. This doughty
MarCaIlum More, hltl Tx, was the first t1
take the name of Argyll, as well as tie boar =
head, celebrated in Flora MscIJna'I'- song
70 WaverIy:
Let the SON Of Brown D.armll Who -iea tie wild
Resume the pure faith 81. tile great C4Iun More.
Had Sir Walter lveI in our day he
might have been converted t3 the faith of
John Campbell, Of lsdy, one Of whose rs est
Highland legends tell u- how. instead of
Diarmid killing the bJlr. it was the boar
that He'd him. An enemy made a bet that
be could not measure the length Of boar
be huI killed b7 pacing it, back with his
bare feet. lie won the bcr. but lost his life
bleeding t0 death from the wound made bv
the bristle-. Even the old motto, stiIl much
seen about, EIx eI n0stro vOso, recalls the
great Duke Of Argyll and Greenwich the
Red Duke, the Ian Ruo Of the HIghlanders,
vino has a gorgeous white marble monument
in Westminster Abby, and whose pious,
modest motto has in that pure spirit level an
ironicai significance. IL Is noteworthy. by
the-by, how the epitaph red has followed
the race from the time Of 'Duibu fuilJ jerg,
lthlt Is to say the red-haired, } in the eighth
century. almost to our own day. But
enough Of the merely heraldic memories of
q family winch dates It's proper name q
Campbell 70 marriage with 2 niece Of vii
liam the Conqueror, an heire-s Of Beau
champ, and which traces back It's ancestry
through King Arthur Of the Table Round to
the grandfather Of Tennysou's mobiles. 1t
il, however, even more tho te purpose that,
throughout its long line, the family has a.
moss invariably displayed enormous natural
capacity and power, and that the whole clan
counts an extraordinary number Of military,
political and literary celebrities. -