New-York daily tribune., 1859-01-27
vyyprcA7T0y or HOLLAND.
Ts iAe E(l;e, 0 TAsH l. TntEae
sIR: The following re, ply to most iiAoersi ana nh'
JUS, apsrss-DsE; Of HoAB1ers having eeen rea'ei
s.rtior in Tas T~s ash for place IN your coa'nn'

To as Editor Of ThsS y TSne,
DEAR SIR: expect from your Of justice thai
Won will not refuse place in your widely circulating
nsner 10 desceudan; Of tho same nsiion who once
took rank among tho leading powers Of the
"sa,th which vas the cradle Of considerable EN-
"n;re. stretching through both hemppheres ssd one
"of the most powerful Repubhcs Of history" as men
toned bv your emir ent American historian Motley in
" TIA, R,,e of ne Dstek Rspu6fic,' book which Is
Also highly sppreci.ted by my ccantrymsn, the
Nc,herlspders as il ought 10 b. by his eompGtrots
Sn.skirs Of this vsluab.e work in your paper OF the
18th YOU say: 1T is not, indeed, an ordinary crcum
"stsnc. that child OF the New World should take
a. for the subject Of q serious history people OF
"Old Europe and should trest hs subsct o. ma"er
"n the art; bus ;AGt he should select SNAIL AID
",Nosr OBSCURE NATION for the subject ol MS MS
"tory is stl more urusua.' lsh possbe that 'hose
words could be written In g NeS-fork nrs'-cas
paper edited in the same Stse ard the same spot
which was first discovered, hrs settled and hrst gov
erned during period Of nearly half century by ths
same socslled small and almost obscure nation, "ot
(Which The smallest scrap which illustrates its former
"cordition will be regarded "a preclons memora;
rodhead lntr. to the Dec. relat. to the Col History
Of ~ VI IN the present Empire State " o'
which the Colorisl History has been uneqnaled oy
"thst of any other province in its ruulness OF incl
dents and lis restive Importance TO the Coion'es
Ibdl the state where the Colonists arrived - who
Twill at leat point cut 10 the future traveller the
"path Of those pioresrs who have preceded him In
81 ihe forests affordrg the benefit AZ one AMI tho
same time of their errors and their experience:
"Those men who, leaving the comforts OF home and
of civilized society fret plunged uto ths depths oi
"the forest on these coasts AMI battcd against the
"repul,iye circumstances by which they were sur
Grounded" (O'Casghap, listoryoi Ne"-NetnetIahol.
A class Of indie pendent reeholters. many oi them
persops Of substance, and some Ut them educated
"mer, was thus drawn to New-Netherlapd especially
"dGrpg the latter part OF the Dutch rule MO" y he
fonrfsktsC rllages R0c found az tie older parts ot
size STATE, trace their organ TO TINS SOLID Asp
"uoNoRABlE srocK. The Colonisl Government
md laws were closely conformsd 10 those OF Holland
Long before the founding ofthe Colony the inhSot-
"spts of the cities ana Of many c)mmunes or town.
ships in the fatherlsnd had acquired good degree
"of independence both municipal aud personal, and
" had CONES into the settled enjoyment Oh various
Z" definite ard important poltcsi rights Cnoos'ng
annually schepens, burgomasers, etc. IN ttese At-
lie PeDubrs re fHd me germs 81 The townships iHIo
,-bck the State Is noc sVbd,Udsd and lntheir func.
/" tonaries he types ot many ot our present torn daa
- county oBoets. The INFLuEh,E of fhls AhhAN"h-
uF,T IN The PRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT or
POPULAR FREEDOM is practically familiar 10 al
Americans" Butler Outline OF the Constitutional
History of New-lork.l Ii tho conqner'ng snips OF
Holland had not guarded, in the turthest island
Iyoornl of Europe. the asylum OF human thought,
You would have had neither Shakespeare nor Bacon,
nor Harvey; nor Descartes, RsmbI andt Spinoze
] ttelleOl Yes say rinuo thc hivsss"ote'"
telescope opened to him the skies lhichelets
! Gue,res ds Relgion) And s il not known among the
scientific men N the old as well in the New Werh That
| neither the great English Philosopher Newton nor
the celebrated German Leibtitz, ever couiu nave
| not the emiuent Dutch ca. Huygens paved the way
lie who was born in Holland, the bulwark, the uni
'versa refuge and salvation Of the human race HI
,helet Haa tho language OF the Holanders been one
(" which like the French, recomme aded Itself 10 AL
tongues by its mingled euphony and power It's con-
" yersational capacity AZ once appropriate To the
graceful lips ot women and the bear led lips OF men
4" or had H. like the Eoelish, been forced upon all
"pations by tue irresistible development OF uaie AMI
"gction OF concurrent circumsts we should nave
| heard thousandfold more than we do now OF The
| q" vest achievements Of the Dutch nation, and the
Uollanders would have diyided the applause OF the
word with their restless neighbours, sntsgonistic in
race religion, and everytbDg-and their great COM
mercal rivals, who have usurped or stolen nucn,
and assumed the honor Of more, without accredtlng
4" the power, the freedom, the influence, which En-
gland row enjoys, TO that Wism III that satarnine
but great sr,ed HollaLder of whom the eloquent
! " Graftdn remarked, that he and our own Washing
" ton were the two greatest men OF modern tine.
Watts do Peyser The Dost glorious achievements 0f
! the Mariners of IIoland) THAT once great nayal
" ard commercial co nmonwealth, occupying small
portion Of Europe, but conQuerlDg wide empire by
" The private enterprise If trading companies gird-
ling the world with its iInumerable Dependencies 10
Asia America Africa, Austr .liaexeroising sover-
"eigbty in Brazil, Guiana, the West Indies, New
n.
"Ceylon, Java, Sumstra, New-Holand-heving first
"sld together were, the grandest OF the Cyclic
"pean blocks, out os which the magnificent British
" alm IT later PERIOD las been constructed, must
always be looked upon with interest by Eaglsbmeu,
| "as in a great measure the precursor In their
! " scheme Of empire. For AMERICA rHE sPEcIAcLE
! Z" ONE oF SILL DEFER IMPORT. lhs Ddtch
" Republic originated n the opposition OF the ra'lons'
elements Of human nature 70 sacredotal dog nstisn
! d" aud persecution-in the courageous ressyADce OF
" historical and chartered liberty 10 foreign despot-
"ism. Neither that liberty ours was born Of the
4" coud-e mbraces Of = false Divinity with Humanity
L" of impossible beauty; nor was the infant career Of
either erested in blood and tesrs by the Madness Of
{ its wOTshipers. 10 moinfain, not 10 overthrow,
was the device Of the Washington OF the Sixteenth
! " Century William l. OF Orange az It was the aiIn
/ I" Of our own hero snd his CREST contemporaries"
| lMotley-The rise of the Dutch Repabc.)
Did not fear 10 use too much space in your Journal
should also make reference 10 Jour great bistOiisDs
Bancroft, Prescott; your eminent pnct, Loneielow
&c. ODg the large number oi other scent,ie men In
the whole civilized world, 10 prove that such small
and almost obscure a1tiOn, WAS KNowS, - bSowS,
"ASD WILL STILL By Knows go long the records
Of history shall be preserved, IN whose uneficej
nails the Dutch heroes the Dutch statesmen the Dutch
inventors the Dutch artists &c. take 0Le of tne ir-t
and in consideration Of the small slrfsce of Us tsr
tory, The highest RINK eaytt. II you viii alow me,
in Of your later journals small plsce, viii say
more the words o. yocr energetic General +. Waits
DC Peyster: "That the Knickerbocker should recsu
and revel in the remembrance OF the glorious past OF
:" Holland, to whom owe 90 much Of oar own
S,ates preemineDce, major portion OF oar blood,
our synpathies, the yindic4o oi her riga, % oc-
"cupy the highest rsBk among the navel powers
which have hourishsd in success sson from That age
" when Tyres, Arsi and Quail led the adventurous
" way IN naval glory and commercial eItsrprse; IN
which AFTER the lapse OF thrice a Thousand years,
" our young, bu: great and wondrols country nov
holds the foremost place.
By the close relationsbp between the whole human
family will prove, with the words Of your own Amer