The issue of the late elections, and the triumphant meetings which are everywhere held in England, for the maintenance of her national and agricultural prosperity, should excite us to similar efforts. If our statements of what is occurring here can strengthen the hands of our brethren in the south, we shall be more than amply repaid for the pains we have expended in a close and laborious investigation. England may not require support; but support is ready for her. Ireland, from the depths of present misery, sees the hand which is striving to keep her down, and prepares herself for another struggle. Scotland will not remain inactive. Her interest is so clear, that it would be almost wasting words to attempt to explain it further. Let but this experiment go on for a few years longer, and all that we have gained, by more than a century of unremitting toil, will be lost to us: our improvements will be annihilated, and our people pauperised. Deprived of her yeomanry, as noble a body of men as exists upon the face of the earth, the nationality of Scotland is gone. We trust, then, that in every part of the country the appeal will be energetically answered. Scotsmen are slow to move; but being moved, they have a will and resolution that can bear down any obstacle whatever. There never was a time when the old national spirit was more imperatively required to show itself than now. Let us then speak out boldly in defence of our country, and tell those Manchester conspirators, in answer to their insolent challenge, that--beyond that circle of smoking factories, which they falsely imagine to be the heart of Britain--there exists a majority of loyal British subjects, who despise their dictation, detest their hypocrisy, and utterly defy their power. _Printed by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh._ * * * * * Transcriber's note: The transcriber has inserted missing anchors for the following: Footnote 5: AMERICAN ADVENTURE.[5] Footnote 9: HOWARD.[9] Footnote 17: Cospatrick's stronghold of Dunbar[17] Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Irregularities and inconsistencies in the text have been retained as printed. Mismatched quotes are not fixed if it's not sufficiently clear where the missing quote should be placed. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 67, No. 411, January 1850, by Various