Post by Tanzoria on Jan 1, 2023 3:09:18 GMT -5
The year of the Prince had ended. But for the English government this was just the beginning. Systematically, and with due parliamentary legislation, they proceeded to eliminate all the things that made this man unique and gave him the strength they so feared. They penalised the wearing his highland dress, penalised the weaving of his highland tartan, penalised the worshipping at his church, penalised the carrying of his weapons, penalised the playing of his music. They removed the authority of his chief and, in one blow, smashed forever the the system of his clan. They then encouraged his chief to lose interest in him, to evict him and to replace him by the more profitable sheep. Thus they reduced him to a homeless, unwanted oddity and finally forced him in his hundreds of thousands, to leave the land of his birth for the canning industries of the North, for the disease-ridden slums of the south, for the lumber camps of Canada and the stockyards of Australia. And wherever he went, he took with him his music, his poetry, his language and his children...thus within a century of Culloden, the English and the Scottish lowlanders had made secure forever their religion, their commerce, their culture, their ruling dynasty. And in so doing, they had destroyed a race of people. They have created a desert and called it 'peace'"
