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SUPPLEMENT. 219
therefore, this lenity been extended, and the
pledge of honour required, the fame of his
Majesty's clemency would have been cele-
brated throughout the British empire, and
he would have reigned in the hearts of all;
but this did not accord with the mean dic-
tates of revenge, and with the selfish inten-
tions of the clan act; the honour and glory
therefore of the sovereign, and the future
peace of his realms, must bend to party
views, and to narrow minded and short
sighted policy, America has, at different
times, been peopled by Britain, with pu-
ritans, non-conformists, non-jurants, qua-
kers, presbyterians, papists, rebels, and
thieves, and by kidnapping and emigra-
tion, until the motley progeny became
sturdy enough to rebel, and to become
a piercing thorn in the side of the parent,
and Britain has been forced to acknow-
ledge them of age, and fit to guide them-
selves.
The cup of calamity, filled up for Kep-
poch and his people, anno 1687, is now
extended, and the rod of affliction, the clan
act, fully applied. Angus, with his irame-
therefore, this lenity been extended, and the
pledge of honour required, the fame of his
Majesty's clemency would have been cele-
brated throughout the British empire, and
he would have reigned in the hearts of all;
but this did not accord with the mean dic-
tates of revenge, and with the selfish inten-
tions of the clan act; the honour and glory
therefore of the sovereign, and the future
peace of his realms, must bend to party
views, and to narrow minded and short
sighted policy, America has, at different
times, been peopled by Britain, with pu-
ritans, non-conformists, non-jurants, qua-
kers, presbyterians, papists, rebels, and
thieves, and by kidnapping and emigra-
tion, until the motley progeny became
sturdy enough to rebel, and to become
a piercing thorn in the side of the parent,
and Britain has been forced to acknow-
ledge them of age, and fit to guide them-
selves.
The cup of calamity, filled up for Kep-
poch and his people, anno 1687, is now
extended, and the rod of affliction, the clan
act, fully applied. Angus, with his irame-
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| Description | A poem in five cantos: being the origin and history of the family, alias Donald, Lord of the Isles, carried down to its extinction, with a continuation of the family of Keppoch; the whole combined with the history of Scotland, with notes and references, and concluding with an analysis of the Scotch acts of Parliament, relative to the Douglas association; and an address to His Royal Highness the prince regent. By John Paul Macdonald. Montrose : Printed for the author by J. Watt, 1815. |
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| Description | A selection of almost 400 printed items relating to the history of Scottish families, mostly dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Includes memoirs, genealogies and clan histories, with a few produced by emigrant families. The earliest family history goes back to AD 916. |
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