The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-07

| portance.
Like Esau, he felt now that he had sold
his birthrlght, and where even was his
| reward?
| Gone were his prestige, his new loyalty,
his halo of tradition and long, long before
London was reached the only place of
any Importance was each ones own par
| ticular glen or hillside.
Smolderng feelings grew to red, then
! white heat, and on Finchley Common the
| storm broke.
This German Lairde." whom in their
| heart of hearts they despised as did their
Jacobite brothers, had gone to Hanover,
"his kail yairdie.'
| Tactless, and regardless of how much
| sentiment" had been given up for his
| service-and sentiment is as the breath
| of the nostriis TO all Highlanders-his
Majesty had left his newly loyal troops to
| be inspected by Marshal Wade.
| Reviewed by miserable nobody of a
Sassenach,, when not even the so-called
divinely anointed king had any birth
| to speak of in comparison with them
| selves-sons of chiefs, chieftains, cadets
and tacksmen--for a Highlander's ances-
| tors begin anywhere after the flood. Even
now only the true Highlander can family
appreciate the state of their outraged
| feelings.
Ordered for Foreign Service.
Insult was added to injury when it
leaked out that they were to be sent
abroad contrary to all terms of enlist
ment. So, with what has bene facetously
called French leave" they set out for
| home in a body. and were strongly en-
| trenched in wood in Northamptonsh
| before regiment of dragons discovered
| their Whereabouts.
We will be cut to pieces rather than
submit, was their reply to a message,
| and for several days they stood the siege.
AZ last local clergyman prevailed on
| some Of the weaker minded to yield. and
after much parleying they were disarmed
| and marched back to London.
TWO Macpherson and Shaw were Sc
| lected as ringleaGers and executed, and
as all were gentlemen's sons and tenants
of the Clan Chattan, CEuny MACPHERSON,
! their chief, was so indignant that on the
| landing of the Prince ia 1745 Cluny threw
up the Kings commission, and with many
/, others joined the Jacobite cause again.
Extravagant praise and recrlminatiOn
were alike heaped upon the regiment
| Their flight was compared to the retreat
of the 10000 Greeks through Persia, and
Corpi Macpherson was the Xenophon Of
his day.
But ANONYMOUSLY from London to
| Kent, thence TO Flanders, where they
| drafted to fight against their friends and
Scotlands former ally, the French.
! In the battle of Fontenoy, in 1745, one
| private, a Campbell, is credited with kill
ing nine men, and when striking at the
tenth with his broadsword a cannon ball
struck his blade and disabled him.
American Record.
In 1856 they sailed for New FORK, where
at Louisbourge in 1857, Ticonderoga in 1853,
the West Indies in 1859, back to Ticonder-
oga, Montreal in 1850, homeward 10 Ire
land in 1857, and at lass they saw Scotland
in IT'S, after thirty-one years of absence.
A hard fate had been theirs, and such
treatment of a regiment nowadays would
arouse the indignation of civilized human
ity. The mischief which satan provides
for idle hands was never again TO be
theirs, for in 1776 they returned to Ameri-
| ca, disembarked at Staten Island, fought
at Brooklyn, White Plains. Fort Washing
ton, Fort Lee Trenton, Brandywine, and
on the 18th of September, TIT, reached
| Germantown, although actually absent
from the battle of Germantown, having
been sent to Billngsport that day. At
Stony Point, under Gen. Stirling, they
met Gen. Wayne, and soon afterwards
were reinforced by draft of $50 recruits.
gathered in from London and Dublin
slums.
But on arrival seventy-five of these had
to be sent to hospital. and so proved a fine
contrast indeed TO the original three bat
taIons of Forty-second, and Frazer s
Highlanders who landed 3,25S strong in
1776 and who, after three months of rough
sea, ndu Otlfy Il lew SICK from us GlcClS.
Against Napoleon.
On return to England they were again
sent to Flanders, and even after we can
trace their wandering against the ire
preside Napoleon in Egypt, the PENN
sula, notably at Corunna, where ii was
a sergeant and two privates of the For
ty-second who carried Sir John Moore out
of the fighting line. They were present
at almost every engagement till Water
loo in IT'S.
At Toulouse their stand was so firm hat
it was of them and the Camerons that a
French officer exclaimed. MY God how
firm these sans-culottes are" as they leap
ed the trenches in unbroken line and car
ried them with the bayonet
Their losses in the Transvaal now are
but light in comparison to some of their
ngagemenfs in the Peninsula, and as an
actual rivalry in losses, though unwritten,
is none the less recognized qualification IN
oil Highland regiments they will be pleas
ed rather than regretful,
Natures Training.
Nature seems to have specially provided
for the continued generation and evolution
of the Highland soldier Spartans of the
nineteenth century they are as ever were
the Spar:ans of Greek democracy
The poverty of their social system has
Injured them 10 hardship from infancy. The
typical Celt is a most sparing eater and
can also go without food for long inter
walls Simplicity in life, whilst invigorating
the body, also fortfies the mind
Courage. such daring courage as the
Greeks ranked as "premeditated," is his
highest virtue; cowardice his deepest dis
grace.
The old feally to chief and clan is now
widely expanded into loyalty for country
and Queen; because she is a Queen avow-
cdly proud of her Stuart blood.
Scottish l1ya1fv has increased n thou
sand-fold since Queen Victoria ascended
the throne.
That wonderful family connection and
government embodied for us in the word
"clannsh" is The mightiest factor in the
making of Highland soldiers. Not 10 dis
grace their name, their glen. their clan.
their chief. their Queen, is their aim in
life and death; pure sentiment through
out. and yet such sentiment as can make
men of the Black Watch and kindred regi-