The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1875-09-01

OF the Dutch, VINO lnSulted or rldlcnled
him TO their hearts content, although it
must be said, that they generally used
French refugees for the mouth-piece of
their spite. Their national pride held
him up as the Mithridates of the repub-
lie The brothers De White, therefore,
had to strive against double difficulty,
against the force of national aatipathy
and, besides, against that feeling OF weari.
ness which is natural to all vanquished
people, when they hope that new chief
will be able to save them from ruin and
shame.
This new chief, quite ready to appear
on the political stage, and to measure HIM
self against Louis XIV, however gigan-
tic the fortunes of the Granl Monarch
doomed in the future, was William,
Prince of Orange, son of William II. and
grandson, by his mother Mary Stuart, of
Charles /. of England. We have men
toned him before as the person by whom
the people expected to see the Office of
Stakeholder restored.
This young man was, in 1872, twenty
two years of age. John De White, who
was his tutor, had brought him up with
the view of making him a good citizen.
Loving his country better than he did
his Disciple, the master had, by the PER
petual Eiict," extinguished the hope
which the young Prince might have en-
tertained of one day becoming Stadthol-
der But God laughs at the presumption
Of man, who wants to raise and PROSTATE
the powers on earth without consulting
the King above; and the fickleness and
caprice of the Dutch combined with the
terror inspired by Louis XIV, in repeal
ing the Perpetual Edict," and re>estab-
fishing the Office os Stakeholder in favor
of William of Orange, for whom the hand
of Providence had traced ont Interior des-
TIMES on the hidden map Of the future.
The Grand Pensionary bowed before
the will of his fellow citizens; Cornelius
De White, however, was more obstinate,
: and notwithstanding all the threats of
death from the 0rangist rabble, who be-
sieged him in his house at bort, he stout
ly refused to sign the act by which the
office of Stakeholder was restored
Moved by the tears and entreaties of his
wife, he at last complied, only adding to
his signature the two letters V. C. { u
Coactls), notifying thereby, that he only
yielded to force.
1t was real miracle that on that day
he escaped from the doom intended for
= him.
John De White derived no advantage
from his ready compliance with the wish
eS Of his fellow citizens. Onlya few days
after, an attempt was made to stab him,
in which he was severely although not
> MORALLY wo unded.
This by no means suited the views Of
the Orange faction. The life of the two
brothers being constant obstacle to their
plans, they changed their tactics, and
tried to obtain by calumny what they ad
not been able 10 effect by the aid of the
poniard.
How rarely does it happen that, in the
right moment, great man is found to
head the execution of vast and noble de-
signs, but it as rarely happens, that when
the devils work is to be done, the mis-
creant is not at hand, who readily and at
once enters upon the infamous task.
The wretched tool in this instance was
Tyckelaer, a surgeon by profession. He
E lodged an information against Cornelius
De White, setting forth. that the warden
+, who, as he had shown by the letters
added to his signature, was fuming at the
repeal of the Perpetual Elict"-had,
from hatred against William of Orange,
= hired an assassin to deliver the new re-
D public of its new Stakeholder; and he,
J Tyckelaer, was the person thus chosen;
r but that, Mortified at the bare idea OF the
S act which he was asked to perpetrate, he
t had preferred rather to reveal the crime
f than to commit it.
This disclosure was, indeed, well calcula-
ted to call forth furious outbreak among
the Orange faction. The Attorney-Gen-
eral caused, on the 10th of August, 1872,
I Cornelius De Witte to be arrested and
e the noble brother of John De Witte had
1 like the yilest criminal, to undergo, in one
Of the apartments of the town prison, the
preparatory degrees of torture, by means
Of which his judges expected to force from
: him the confession of his alleged plot
against William Of Orange
But Cornelius was not only possessed
= of great mind, but also of great heart
t lie belonged to that race of martyrs who
e indissolubly welded to their political con-
: Yiction, as their ancestors were to theiI
e faith, are able to smile on pain: while
i being stretched on the rack, he recited
If with firm voice, and scanning the lines
b according to measure the first strophe oil
: "Jnstum &C tenacem' of Horace: and
c making no confession, tired, not only the
!, strength, but even the fanaticism of his
r executioners.
e The Judges, notwithstanding, acquitted
Tyckelaer from every charge; at the sam,