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 activities iuin [sic] repairing the tombs and monuments over the bodies of the martyrsEach sacred spot, on mountains, in vallies, and on moors, where the patriots had fallen by the steel of the life-guards, was sought out, and monuments created, and tomb-stones repaired and a host of 'Old Mortalities' put in requisition to chissel deeper the names and the epitaphs of the martyrs.

This is my introduction.—I now offer you the 'Battle of Drumclog.' And the 'Battle of Bothwell shall be forthcoming—that you may judge of the contrast between the account of these battles in the Waverly romance, and in history.

In his 'Battle of Drumclog' the 'great wizard' makes the covenanters' army murder a gallant young officer, who came as the flag. Nothing can be more erroneous and slanderous. It is an outrage to history. It is only surpassed by that more outrageous fiction of their intended murder of young Morton, in the night after Bothwell battle.

The following is giver in the words of the Laird of Torfoot whose estate is this day in the possession of two brothers, his lineal, descendants of the fifth generation. The Laird speaks of what he saw and what he did. I have carefully compared his account with the statements handed down by family tradition—particularly with the statements of a vener-