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Though the old lady’s kirk was four miles off—probably eight
English miles—she went to worship every Sunday. She was glad to
get some snuff, which is the luxury of a Highland cottage. In one
village of three huts, Dr. Johnson found a chimney and a pane of
glass.
Beside his road-making, with stone and concrete, General Wade
had notable success in dealing with the peculiar variety of human
nature that was so marked in the Celtic Highlanders. He so won his
way into their hearts that, with the tact that came of thorough
acquaintance with his subject, he slowly but surely disarmed the
clans. Turbulence and habitual brawls ceased, for the most part, and
there came an era of civilization and peaceful life, contrasting
amazingly with the state of affairs in Scotland before 1745. To the
Irish General Wade the world awards the title promised of God by
the prophet Isaiah, “The restorer of paths to dwell in.”
It was in 1745 that the road-builder in the Highlands, Wade, then
a field marshal, but in poor health and seventy years of age, when
attempting to deal with the insurrection of the Jacobites, was utterly
baffled by the perplexing rapidity of Prince Charles’s marches. He,
therefore, most patriotically, resigned in favor of the Duke of
Cumberland, the “Bluff Billie” of fame and story.
Though Wade won great victories in war, his greatest renown
was gained not on the field of blood, but in this peaceful triumph over
the Highlanders. In this, he gave an inspiring precedent to those of
our own American officers of the army and navy, who have done
such noble work in preventing riot and other outbreaks of violence
among the races in our composite nation, or who, by persuasion,
instead of bloodshed, have induced Indians to submit to law. In
digging canals, in achieving hygienic mastery over disease, in
surmounting natural obstacles, in ministering to the needy, sick, and
hungry upon the frontiers, and in time of pestilence, calamity, and
devastation, by storm and earthquake, they have shown their
heroism. May the time soon come when society and the world at
large will honor the heroes of peace and mark their bloodless
triumphs, no less renowned in peace than in war. Admirable in the
highest degree is now the Scottish camaraderie of Highlander and
Lowlander, but none, to gain it, would in these more enlightened
days, pay again the awful price at which it was won.
CHAPTER XVII
HEATHER AND HIGHLAND COSTUME