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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: his own ambition less, and the peace of the country more."
"Those consulted their own ambition and self-interest, Sir
Duncan," answered Montrose, "who brought the country to the pass
in which it now stands, and rendered necessary the sharp remedies
which we are now reluctantly about to use."
"And what rank among these self-seekers," said Sir Duncan
Campbell, "we shall assign to a noble Earl, so violently attached
to the Covenant, that he was the first, in 1639, to cross the
Tyne, wading middle deep at the head of his regiment, to charge
the royal forces? It was the same, I think, who imposed the
Covenant upon the burgesses and colleges of Aberdeen, at the
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