The English Whigs were accused by their opponents of holding doctrines dangerously lax touching the obedience due to the chief magistrate.

Yet no respectable English Whig ever defended rebellion, except as a rare and extreme remedy for rare and extreme evils.

But among those Celtic chiefs whose loyalty has been the theme of so much warm eulogy were some whose whole existence from boyhood upwards had been one long rebellion.

Such men, it is evident, were not likely to see the Revolution in the light in which it appeared to an Oxonian nonjuror.

On the other hand they were not, like the aboriginal Irish, urged to take arms by impatience of Saxon domination.
To such domination the Scottish Celt had never been subjected.