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Follow them across the Atlantic to North America, to 

 their homes in the States and in the Canadas. Measure 

 the angle they made in this transposition, and the lati- 

 tude and longitude of social and moral life they have 

 reached from this Sutherland point of departure. The 

 sons of the fathers and mothers who had their family 

 nests stirred up so cruelly, and scattered, like those 

 of rooks, from their holdings in the cliffs, gorges and 

 glens of these cold mountains, are now among the 

 most substantial and respected men of the Western 

 World. Some of them to-day are mayors of towns 

 of larger population than the whole county of Suther- 

 land. Some, doubtless, are members of Congress, 

 representing each a constituency of one hundred thou- 

 sand persons, and a vast amount of intelligence, wealth 

 and industry. They are merchants, manufacturers, 

 farmers, teachers and preachers, filling all the pro- 

 fessions and occupations of the continent. Is not that 

 an angle of promise to your telescope ? Is not that 

 a line of divergence which has conducted these evicted 

 populations, at a small distance from this point of 

 departure, into the better latitudes of human expe- 

 rience ? The selling of this Scotch Joseph to America 

 was more purely and simply a pecuniary transaction 

 than that recorded in Scripture ; for in that the unkind 

 and jealous brothers sold the innocent boy for envy, 



