If they do not get it--if this man James escape--there will be trouble with the Campbells.

That means disturbance in the Highlands, which are uneasy and very far from being disarmed: the disarming is a farce...." "I can bear you out in that," said I.
"Disturbance in the Highlands makes the hour of our old watchful enemy," pursued his lordship, holding out a finger as he paced; "and I give you my word we may have a '45 again with the Campbells on the other side.

To protect the life of this man Stewart--which is forfeit already on half-a-dozen different counts if not on this--do you propose to plunge your country in war, to jeopardise the faith of your fathers, and to expose the lives and fortunes of how many thousand innocent persons?
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These are considerations that weigh with me, and that I hope will weigh no less with yourself, Mr.Balfour, as a lover of your country, good government, and religious truth." "You deal with me very frankly, and I thank you for it," said I."I will try on my side to be no less honest.