Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1852-04-13
of France, was the Dutchman William of Or


ange!
| | will not 90 on in this strain; but let me
state here the fact, that the Netherlands were
considered by all nations and sought during two
centuries as the refuge of the poor, the suffering
and oppressed. French Huguenots, English
Puritans, Piedmontese Hungarian and Bohemi-
an Protestants, and the sons of Israel from Spain
Portugal and Germany, they all were received
with equal kindness and open arms; they all
were safe under the protection of the Lion OF
the Netherlands!
The country itself received the highest enco-
NUNS from the illustrious foreigners, who visit
ed it. The following is from the hand of the
Englishman Pitcairn.
'Tellurem fecere Del Sua littora Belge,
Immens@que patel mois uterque labor,
Di vacuo Sparsas glomerarunt ethere terras,
Nil ubi quod c9pts posset obesse suis
At Begis maria at terre ct natura Deorum
Obstitit, Obstantes hi domuere Deos."
This may be highly and POLITICALLY colored,
still there is more truth in it, than people who
never saw but their own land, will readily be-
ieve. Just now the nation is adding 10000
acres of land to the country by draining the
HARLEM Lake.
And now, who would believe for one single
moment, that the people from that country are
ashamed of their name or origin? Not one OF
them!
Some of the iliterated class, who in their Fa-
therland never heard it mentiond, that they have
any thing in common with DeutSch or Dutch
and who know that the Germans call themselves
Deutsch. protest against the name, sayng: We
are Hollanders. And they have right as good
at least to call themselves Hollanders, as good
number of native Americans have, to call them
selves Yankees, especially because even in this
Republic their native land is generally called
the Kingdom Of Holland. Holland, divided in
South and North Holland, is only part of the
Kingdom Of the Netherlands, but the capital, the
Governments residence, the greater part of tai
ent and wealth, are now, as it has been for GEN.
turies, crowded together in these two Provin-
ces of which Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Leyden
the Hague, HARLEM, Alkmaar, Delft and Sche-
dam are the most prominent cities. The name
Of the most iIlustrious part has been given to
the whole; that name never was obscure, as
long as it exists in history. In France, Spain
and Italy, Hollande and Olanda are at least MS
well known as Pays Bas or Paesi Bassi. The
New Enganders, called Yankees by the Indians
claim the name for the whole people and talk OF
the Universal Yankee Nation, but greatly doubt
whether great many born Americans from the
Empire State till the mouth of the father of wa
ters accept so cheerfully the Yankee name as al
Neherlanders that of Holanders. The name oi
Hollanders for Netherlanders is of the same
class, but with more propriety perhaps, as thai
Of Yankees for Americans, and surely more
proper, than that the general name Outchmen
how honorable it for our nation may be and is
has been given by the people of England anC
the United States to the Netherlanders exclu
sively and indiscriminately.
But again, no Netherfander rejects to be con-
sidered for what he really is; some disclaim on
ly to be called Dutchmen indiscriminately, as il
the country of their birth was some part or cor
ner of the lands, which in former times const
tued the German Empire. The Netherlands
are politically since more than three centure,
almost as much connected with those lands, as
the United States Of America themselves.
Sheboygan Nieuwsbode.