A spirit'of this kind made the Scottish colonists dangerous and determined enemies of the British Government in the War of Independence, and Mr, Black brings out two important points, neither of them new, but both of them generally forgotten.
The angina] demand for entire ration and absolute indepen-came from the Scots-Irish Presbyterians; and the American Constitution was largely based pon the Presbyterian form of periods, says that he knows of no! Church Government, and especially country with a modern literature so hopelessly out of touch with reality. THe wonders where the! kailyairders got their material. "Scotland," he says, "is still the! country which produced—from} humble rank Burns, Fergusson, Hugh Miller, and a host of scholars and shrewd men of affairs." He; was unable to find, even in the smallest village "the _sentimentalists and simpletons palmed off by some Scots writers as typical; Scots."
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