Laws, both sacred and civil. We shall not here condescend upon 
the particular Prejudices, that do, and will Redound to this 
Nation, if the said Union should be carried on, according to the 
Printed Articles; But refers the Reader to the Variety of 
Addresses, given in to the present Parliament, by all Ranks from 
almost all corners of this Nation, against the said Union: Only 
we must say and Protest that the Commissioners for this Nation 
have been either Simple, Ignorant, or Treacherous, if not all 
three, when the Minuts of the Treaty betwixt the Commissioners 
of both Kingdoms are duely considered ; and when we compare 
their Dastardly Yieldings unto the Demands and Proposals of the 
English Commissioners; who, on the contrar, have Valiantly 
acquit themselves for the Interest and Safety of their Nation. 
We acknowledge it is in the Power of the present Parliament 
to give Remissions to the Subscribers of the foresaid Articles and 
We heartily wish for a good Agreement amongst all the Members 
of the Parliament that it may tend to the Safety and Preservation 
of both CHURCH and STATE, with all the Privileges belonging 
thereto, within the Kingdom of SCOTLAND. 
But if the Subscribers of the foresaid Treaty and Union, with 
their Associats in Parliament, shall presume to carry on the said 
Union, by a Supream Power, over the Belly of the Generality of 
this Nation; Then and in that case, as we Judge, that the Con- 
sent of the Generality of the same can only Divest them of their 
Sacred and Civil Libertys, Purchased and maintained by Our 
ANCESTORS with their Blood; So we Protest, whatever 
Ratification of the foresaid Union may pass in Parliament, 
contrar to Our Fundamental Laws, Liberties, & Privileges, con- 
cerning Church and State, may not be binding upon the Nation, 
now nor at any time to come: And particularly we Protest against 
the Approbation of the first Article of the said Union, before the 
Privileges of this Nation, contain’d in the other Articles had been 
adjusted and Secured: And so we earnestly Require that the 
Representatives in Parliament, who are for Our Nation’s Privi- 
leges, would give timeous warning to all the corners of the King- 
dom ; That we and our Posterity become not Tributary and Bond 
slaves to our Neighbours, without acquiting our Selves, as 
becomes Men and Christians, And we are Confident that the 
Soldiers now in Martial Power have so much of the Spirit of 
SCOTS-MEN ; that they are not Ambitious to be Disposed of, at — 
118 THe Union oF 1707 In DUMFRIESSHIRE. 
