New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-04-16

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The men Of the English middle class-they were the
men from the ions of whose peers and whose possible
sprung They might not appreciate the cOsme complete
Of shakespcares mind the marvellous poetry OF
others the essential spirit Of that prolific,
prophetic age which ~, had found it, ..o voice ice
fancy that invigoatng air which full OF discovery
and %Se chfan fder they had Felt the in
rush OF that vehement life which for go years had been
the time which gave birth to the letters impulse the
discovery law to the statosmanshp life to the religion
Of the ago Of Elizabeth was as much part Of them as
they came large part because they represented that
spirit because it seemed TO them likely tenceorth 10 be
less common and governing In England and because
they would rather encounter sess and force the pe,s
and pains OF the wilderness than tarry IN country
where James was KING, and George slisGs Was
n from tSe banners of England he
temper as old and as stubborn as the fights against
ter Of Con@ecticGt and hid il in the wys oak he did
precisely what the English traditions Of century earlier
Of Maryland gave religious pardon to all
in their colony they only oppressed irobi
the Armada, though the Pont had blessed it, in their
loyalty to Queen against whom he had proclaimed
century which saw at its beginning the coronation OF
EaSetG ana az Us eGd t4s den OF Racn shot
peare and the manhood Of Mltonhat was the century
in which the arts and arms Of England IT. resoute em
planted these shores. The vital element brought
FS% Ty sHs
It familiar IN time TO all who admire heroisin in ac
ton, and eloquence in story.
THE MIDDLE CLASS II HOLLAND,
Mr.. Motley has said OF William the Silent that his
constant to elevate the middle class to build
up strong third party which should unite much OF the
substantial wealth and intelligence Of the land drawing
constantly from tho people and deriving strength from
national enthusiasm and his efforts were successful
"As to the grandecs, they mostly Of those who
sought to swim between two waters according TO the
Princes expression" The Doors, or aborcrs were uI
trniu material which
enduring commonwealth; and ON this salwart middle
class trained by churches and common schools skllu
patient in industry fervent In enterprise, uncOnquerlble
in courage the iustriOus patriot depended under God
Among the inhabitants OF the Province OF SewNethcr
lands when it came into the English possession were
West India Company had been succeeded by farmers and
traders The coonists then were agrGntSrists neean
political social temper which was prevalent in iloand
and while wolves and Indians flied the forests which
then extended from Caralst to Harlem the lilo IN inc
two separated settlements much the same as IN the
rce Cf whom s HUDSON River bad rs BEEN named
was stadi holder OF the Netherlands when the per
eo1ded 1ser Of his great name was still
vivid with CLEAN from the Past Only two years pc
the preceding IL years aTnistce the United rncs
had passed through disastrous interval OF religious dis
sension, ambitious intrigue. and popular umut But
that ended and the first stroke of the Spanish
under Spnola had revived the mmhcent tradition
of the days when, their historian has said, the
provinces united in one great hatred and one great
hope The interval of peace had not soltencd the stub
bornness Of their purpose TO be free They ready
before pass through the sea of blood that they
bng in the annes of the two preceding generations
came out 10 instant exhibition as hidden pictures are
drawn out by fire.
WHAT WAS BROUGHT FROM HOLLAND TO AMERICA.
The temper which this experience, intense AID pro-
l0Rged, had bred among the Holsnders-the omni
present ndesructibe spirit. not wholly revealed in any
person, but rarely in mjlons-t again rs Wig
orous and vivid as it had been throughout the
republic which it had created when the 80 families came
nfnIIn
of the class the occupation and habits
Of life with those who had fought for GO years and
land against tho frcnzicd assaults OF Spain who under
Humskrk had smtten her feet into utter destruction
ships every and had blown up their Own rather
than let her nag surmount them; who lad more than
give 10 the Spanish possession the lands thus drained who
had ravaged the coasts and captured the colonies OF me
naughty Peninsula aud who In the midst OF all this
whirlwind of and far battle had been naugratng
ing the arts draining the lakes and organizing COM
nrce that surrounded the world When the four Dutch
forts were established this point, at Harlem at Fort
universal in Holland and they who came hither
could bring it unless they had dropped their den-
tity the way. They 10 purchase land by labor
get what they could from the virgin soil and TO send
patience and enterprise and courage, the indomiabe
spirit and the hatred OF tyranny into We len fhney
baptized with blood Education with them the free
schools ia which Holland had led the van OF the world,
early transplantcd TO these shores An energetic
Christian father with them, with It's Bibles, IT'S
Grotius, imprisoned in the Castle Of Lowenscin had
written his up the Scriptures and that treatise
ea 1ae cenar w s The original into
gsh, French, Flemish, German Persian, Arabic, and
modern Greek lie had written IL, he says, Tor the III
sucton Of sailors that they might read 1t in the leisure
OF confinement, and might the impression OF that
globe. Copies of IL may have easily hther on the
vessels Of the nations which had no forests but which
owned more ships than all Europe beside
The very temper which afterward spoke in the public
Issued Philadelphia had been uttered In
Holland two centuries earlier and they who came ther
the land OF dykes sorks and wind mills had brought
them OF Rubens Rembrandt, whose genius Gourished
in the same century under the skies lnd with battle
and on the soil fattcned with blood No wealth came
with them like that which already was making Anser-
dam the Venice OF the NORTH one OF the richest towns
Of Europe.
1t ia sometimes forgotten that the Husuenots consti
tuted the larger and weather part OF te OF
NeWAmsterdam, after the Dutch, that La MOnaigne
has been in sense associated with hieft IN the
s RTe H documents ea before 1e64
ordered to he printed in the French language as well
s ss IA r rs Of letters Is wei as the faithful and fer
vent spirit which he'd been infused into them in the
probaby more seDeray Cultivated class than the COZ
Onists from England or Holland The uguenot movement
he Capital and in the University The revival Of letters
had given it impulse was scholastic as well aS de
pRilos se system theology eab9ratcd in
Europe Europe It's ministers were among the most
learned and eloquent in that country and
century of eloquent preachers. 1t had
counted distinguished mobiles in its ranks Condo,
had been in time. the center OF it, 1t intimately
connected with the high Politics Of the time II had con
and the finest manufactures largely IN
the hands of those who composed the 500 Hn-
early part OF the seventeenth century The families OF
this descent who were early ii re Of then
chusetts Rhode Island. and Virgina' ana sonth
naGence Of Education experiment. and skillfni
enterprise, az well as OF religious ndriIy ana