Memoir of the Chisholm

NOTICE OF THE CLAN. 67
still the father of his family, and we are proud
to acknowledge him.
" Dear Chief, that you may long live to
enjoy health and prosperity is the ardent and
sincere wish of your clansmen.""
To this Address were affixed upwards of
eighty signatures of the Clan, with their pa-
tronymic designations and localities, and dates
of emigration ; and among them are included
those of two members of the Provincial Par-
liament, four Colonels commanding battalions
of militia, two Lieutenant-colonels, one Major,
and several Captains ; four magistrates' 1 names
are also attached to it.
Ere this Address had reached the Chis-
holm, he load given numerous evidences of his
earnest desire to make the bonds of Clanship
the instrument of a far loftier and more en-
during union than could be effected even by
the strongest impulses of natural affection ;
and, foremost among these, may be noticed
the singular propriety with which, on the
very first public occasion which was presented
after attaining his majority, he expressed him-
self on this subject. At a dinner given on
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