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the glories of the second revolution of France ; and their 

 names are recorded in blood on the frightful atrocities 

 of the first. I have seen much of the people of this 

 class in their character as individuals, and regard them 

 in this character, however much I may dread them in 

 the aggregate, with, I trust, a proper contempt. I have 

 ever found them to be as devoid of genuine talent as of 

 sterling principle/ 



Miller takes leave of his antagonists in words which, 

 when we think of his subsequent championship of the 

 Free Church, may strike us as almost prophetic. ' I 

 care not though it be recorded as my epitaph, that when 

 the civil and religious rights of the people of this north- 

 ern parish were assailed by a hired gladiator of the law, 

 I, one of that people, encountered the hireling on his 

 own field, and vanquished him at his own weapons. For 

 the future you are safe. Should I again appear on the 

 rough arena of controversy, it will be when the barriers 

 are encircled by a deeper line of spectators, and to grap- 

 ple with some more powerful opponent/ Could the 

 strut and stare of Junius have been more felicitously 

 mimicked? The petitioners were utterly routed, and the 

 rights and privileges which Miller and his followers had 

 derived from their ancestors in the parish of Cromarty 

 continued unimpaired. Though Whig in his view of 

 national affairs, he commonly acted in local matters with 

 the Conservatives of the district. 



