Do these radicals, as they call themselves--they'd tak' every name they please to themselves!--think they love their state better than the boys who focht and deed and won loved their country?
Eh, and let's think back a bit, just a wee bit, into history.

There's a reason for maist of the things there are in the world.

Sometimes it's a good reason; whiles it's a bad one.

But there's a reason, and you maun e'en be reasonable when you come to talk o' making changes.
In the beginning there was just man, wasna there, wi' his woman, when he could find her, and catch her, and tak' her wi' him tae his cave, and their bairns.

And a man, by his lane, was in trouble always wi' the great beasties they had in yon days.