, 1861-04-13
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

History. By JOHN LoTHRoP MOTLEY. In three
yolames Aew York HAErzn q BnoTHERs::
Chicago; $. c. GR1GGs T. Co., Nos. 80 and ii
Lake Street.
In the reading Of adt, Motley's histories,
with us, the fist has been last, but the pleas
ure aud the profit have been none the less.
He has given us in the three noble volumes be-
fore us ., graphic and intensely interesting ac-
count Of one Of the most unequal and deEpef-
ate,yet successful, struggles Of liberty against
the power and wiles Of the tyrant, ever wit
messed in the history Of our race-a struggle
which must ever be memorable and glorious
in the annala Of human freedom. The actors
in these scenes Me described with so much
clearness and accuracy that they stand ont be-
fore us In all their hfdeous deformity, the min
ions Of ghost1y superstition and hateful tyran-
ny; OF clad in the robes Of the patriot and
the statesman-the unyielding advocates
Of human liberty and The pure, ,ennobliug doc
trines Of the Prince Of Peace.
Tie magnificent empire of Charles the Fifth
whose iron rule had been Iesgued with that Of
the Pope to suppress aud to bury out Of sight
the principles Of the reformation, had passed
peacefully into the hands Of his son, Philip
the Second. William, Prince Of Orange, then
young man Of twenty-five, WIS present at
the abdicatlon, and Charles leaned upon hia
shoulder while addressing the princes and the
mobiles Of the Empire. Worse than madness
would it have appeared for William, whoaa
estates were in all an insignificant territory
among the morasses Of Holland, to attempt to
cope with the young Emperor before whose
power all the rest Of Europe combined would
be an unequal match. And yet fighting As
they did, for civil aud religious liberty, the
Dutch led by William, maintained the deeper
ate contest for more than twenty years TIL,
Philip was glad to procure bis death by the
hand Of an assassin.
At many periods during the contest the
stubborn Calyinlsts seemed to be totally ami
hilated. As an example OF the e1terminatipg
warfare that Was waged against them, take tie
following paragraphs from pages 97-s, vol 2;
The Regent Margaret, sister Of PhiNp,) is
sued q fresh edfct on the 24th of May, [l561
to refresh th8 IN emorles Of these who might
have forgotten previous statutes, which were,
however; not calculated to make men obltFi-
ous. By this new proclamation oil ministers
and teachers were sentenced to the galloRs.
All parents CT masters whose children or
servants had attended such meetings were.
sentenced to the gallows, while the children
and servants we're only to- be beaten
| with rods. All people who sang hymns
at the burial Of their relations, were sentenced
! to the gallows. Parents Who allowed their
newly born children to be baptized by other
hands than those Of the Catholic priest, were
sentenced to the gallows. The same punish
ment was denounced against the persons who
shou9d ehristen the child, OF act as spousezs.
Schoo]masters who should teach any error or
false doctrine, we're likewise to be punished
With DEATH Those who iufringed the statutes
against the buying and selling Of religious
books and songs, were to receive the same
doom, after the first, offence. AL sneers and
insults against priests and ecclesiastics, were
also made capital crimes - In al cases,
eonascation. Of the whole property WAS added
to the hanging. <4,s - .~;:sS- =.-..
This s.S M says 80 see1tempo5aEy temp h5stossn
new religion, that they lett the cou1tfy .sin
great heaps" 1t became necessary, therefore,
to iseue subsequent proclamation forhiddirg
all persons, whether Foreigners or natives, to
leave the land or to take away their property.
aud prohibiting all sh1pmasteTs, waspnera
aud other ageRta Of travel from assisting IN
the flight of such 'fagitires, al: upon pain Of
TT will II be credited that the edlct Of :tha
24.h Of May, the provisions ofWhich have Just
been eketched, actual}y excited the wrath Of
Philip on account Of zhetr clen.eneyf #*
f ae vas indignant tfat heres1es had been sui'
naS 9h. 20 nang "no ougns tonase pssn nnfnea,
sanaa' i.aa saat lsW naf1oW ana Almost amposEiale
mhp haa a@ a 9ssn aelt tnfougn WMen taese
WY ~" onsaaeo % maght enect thelr escape.
1t Is scarcely credible when contemplating
The fseedon Of religions opinions now enjoyed
in nearly the Thole civilized world, thst such
/ m edlct was tssoea N Inc most powerful en-
Mira of. Europe, within the last three hundred
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