Excerpt from The History of the Highland Clearances: Containing a Reprint of Donald Macleod's "Gloomy Memories of the Highlands", Isle of Skye in 1882, And a Verbatim Report of the Trial of the Braes Crofters

Some people may ask Why rake up all this iniquity just now? We answer that the same laws which permitted the cruelties, the inhuman atrocities, described in this book, are still the laws of the country, and any tyrant who may be indifferent to the healthier public Opinion which now prevails, may legally repeat the same proceedings whenever he may take it into his head to do so.

It is not in our power to alter the Laws of the Land so that a repetition of these evictions cannot take place, but the fear of getting pilloried, in a work like this, may possibly induce the tyrant to hold his hand, for very shame, until a more just and humane law shall make such mean and cruel work as the Highland Clearances for ever impossible and there is hope for such a result in the fact that the descendants of the oppressors of a past generation are so much ashamed'

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