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Excerpt from Papers Illustrative of the Political Condition of the Highlands of Scotland, From the Year 1658 to 1665
M'D onald of Glenco was certainly not a man of suficient mark or fol lowing to call for so severe and summary a mode of punishment. The family were notoriously disaffected, and had been outlawed by Act of Parliament in 1 690 for their adherence to Dundee; and that, with other considerations, the value of which it is not easy in these times to appreciate, undoubtedly led to the barbarous conclusion in the mind of the Master of Stair, that the extirpation of the clan - that damnable sept, as he called them, was a political necessity. How much it was otherwise subsequent events showed, and we can now only regret that any species of doubtful reasoning, or any notion of temporary expe diency, should have induced a regular Government in a civilized age to commit so violent an offence against the unchangeable laws of religion and morality.
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