Henry Wallace on the memory of the Covenanters

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Reformed Covenanter

Cancelled Commissioner
We have been almost afraid to speak of the Scottish covenanters, and the tales of their sufferings which once hallowed the converse of Presbyterian firesides, and contributed to nurture the piety of the young, are now almost unknown to their ungrateful descendants. The caricatures of a [Sir Walter] Scott have tended to make their memory contemptible in the estimation of fashionable prejudice and ignorance; and the general consent with which Presbyterians have suffered the green damp moss to obliterate their names from their mouldering monuments, has tended to deepen the unfavourable impression so agreeably and facetiously imparted.

The noble “Vindication” of Dr. [Thomas] M’Crie is perhaps little known in the circle where its influence is most required. It is interesting, however, to think that still the fine arts may be made available to rescue the names of the “Worthies” of the Covenant from the reproach with which they have been so unjustly burdened. ...

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