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Address Of Beelzebub (第1/2页)
address of beelzebub to the right honourable the earl of breadalbane, president of the right honourable and honourable the highland society, which met on the 23rd of may last at the shakespeare, t garden, to cert ways and means to frustrate the designs of five hundred highlanders, who, as the society were informed by mr. m'kenzie of applecross, were so audacious as to attempt an escape from their lawful lords and masters whose property they were, by emigrating from the lands of mr. maald of glengary to the wilds of ada, in search of that fantastic thing—liberty. long life, my lord, ah be yours, unskaithed by hunger'd highland boors; lrant me nae duddie, desperate beggar, wi' dirk, claymore, and rusty trigger, may twin auld scotland o' a life she likes—as butchers like a knife. faith you and applecross were right to keep the highland hounds in sight: i doubt na! they wad bid ter, thahem a owre the water, then up among thae lakes and seas, they'll mak what rules and laws they please: some daring hancocke, or a franklin, may set their highland bluid a-ranklin; some washington again may head them, or some montgomery, fearless, lead them, till god knows what may be effected when by such heads as directed, poor dunghill sons of dirt and mire may to patri rights aspire! nae sage north now, ner sackville, to watd premier o'er the pack vile,— an' whare will ye get howes and tons t them tht repentance— to cowe the rebel