An address to Highlanders respecting their native Gaelic

The author argues for preserving and teaching Gaelic and Broad Scots as primary languages, proposing that children learn their mother tongue before English to strengthen judgment, literacy, and later classical study. He defends native melodies and bagpipe music as cultural inheritances worth collecting, attributes linguistic decline to English-focused schooling, lowland in-migration, and non-Gaelic domestic practices, and rejects the idea that Christian faith conflicts with patriotism. Drawing on practical examples of Highlanders communicating effectively in military and colonial settings, he urges the press and countrymen to promote reading, singing, and the revival of native language and song.