text:  What! without complaint or enquiry--without the shadow of a cause shown or a reason assigned except it might be that reason--to a Scotsman the most unpalatable of all--the propriety of assimilating the institutions of both countries; in other words of coercing Scotland to adopt the habit of her neighbours--to excavate the foundation-stone of our whole prosperity and make us the victims of a theory which even if sound could not profess to give us one tittle more advantage than the course which we had so long pursued! We believe that if the annals of legislation were searched through we could not find a parallel case of such wanton and unprovoked temerity! We said then and we say now with even more emphatic earnestness it is the curse of the age that every thing is to be managed by political economy and philosophy and that local knowledge is to be utterly disregarded in the management of local interests