. The blue flag; or, The Covenanters who contended for "Christ's crown and covenant" . ered satisfactorily, the penalty wasinstant death. Since the days of Nero, w^ere Godspeople ever treated more cruelly? It was ordained, also, that not only should ministerswho preached at a conventicle be put to death, butalso any who listened to their sermons must die for was as if an army of demons had been turned looseupon the poor Covenanters; Gods anger was waxinghot against his enemies, but he restrained it for a company of martyrs round the throne in heavenwas not yet complete. There w
. The blue flag; or, The Covenanters who contended for "Christ's crown and covenant" . ered satisfactorily, the penalty wasinstant death. Since the days of Nero, w^ere Godspeople ever treated more cruelly? It was ordained, also, that not only should ministerswho preached at a conventicle be put to death, butalso any who listened to their sermons must die for was as if an army of demons had been turned looseupon the poor Covenanters; Gods anger was waxinghot against his enemies, but he restrained it for a company of martyrs round the throne in heavenwas not yet complete. There were crowns of life stillto be bestowed upon men wdio would be faithful untodeath. .^ An attempt was made by the Duke of Monmouthand the condemned Earl ofArgyle to overturn the gov-ernment of King James, butit failed, and the noble Earlof Argyle was put to the scafifold he said, I dienot only a Protestant, butwith a heart-hatred of Pope-ry, prelacy, and all supersti-tion whatsoever. With thisdeclaration, June 30, 1685, hewent to join his martyred father. Shortly afterwards,. Earl of Argyle. BLOOD, BLOOD! 99 more than twenty of Argyles clan were hanged atInverness. Sir James Graham, ordinarily called Claverhouse,now rose to the summit of his awful fame, to fill upthe measure of his iniquities, and make for himself aname to be covered with shame and disgrace had been rewarded for his unrelenting cruelties tothe Covenanters by being made a member of the PrivyCouncil at Edinburgh, and the southwestern countiesof Dumfriesshire and Galloway were assigned to himas his own special domain. These beautiful regionshe proceeded to turn into fields of death, crimsonedwith the blood of their best inhabitants. His purposewas to kill all of the Covenanters, to make, with thesword, a solitude, and call it peace. He employedspies to find out and report the hiding places of thedoomecf people. Sometimes he w^ould drive all theinhabitants of a particular neighborhood into one pla
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