The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-01-30
ZERELDA.
Her Case Utilized As A Text for
An InterestiSG Ser
mon.
he Decadence OF the Marriage
Institution Among the Rich
The Wealthy Have No
Monopoly OF Domes-
tic Felicity

New York, Jan. l9.-The alleged
abduction Of Miss Garrison in st.
Louis has been the continental talk,
- this family has had hold at vari.
eus times, in every portion of the COLI
tinent. 1t IL one Of the very successful
Holland Dutch families rested in New
York State.
Notwithstanding all that has been
written about the Dutch settlers Il
America, cur people are very far
from siezing upon the vivid points
Of that people. Hollsud was a com
posite state, made up Of Germanic
and Dutch elements, with access
ions from MANY other prosecuted ma
tieDe-such as the Sclavic Bohemian>
and the Jewish Portuguese. The Dutch
we're at once al insular and a mari
time nation, fond Of their hon. e
among the canals and creeks Of Hol-
land. but also expert in distant mer-
camille adventure and while they
we're vet fighting the battle of their
Independence, which lasted nearly a
century. they were exploring every
distant country which offered them
the promise of trade. Their country
vas in its majority about the time
New York was settled. They then
we're ransacking tie East indies,
South America, tue West Indies.
North America. and even Japan and
the coasts of Asia and the Arctic
Zone.
They owned tens of thousands of
email vessels like Hudson's "half
NOON" which we're cheap to build
and man, and sailed with great econ
envy and persistence and they only
lacked truly independent spirit to
have shown craftsmanship equal to
their navigation and trade. Unfortu-
natelv they were a race of political
teadies. The glorious victories they
Won over Spain. England and France
never gave them tine. proper self-re.
spect and having adopted the repub-
lican form of government they were
always toading to some other people
Who had nobIemen and princes. In
this Low spirit they gave shelter and
sympathy to the Stuart princes and
turned their back on the British COM
nonweal:h. They put to death their
honest republicans. like Barneveldt
and De Witt, and lent money and
bent the knee to the tyrannous Char
les Il. and his brother James, and
when they were restored gave up to
them several of the true sons of Eng
land who had figured In overthrowing
the monarchy. Their reward was
shat which all tnadies sooner or later
meet with. The British princes We're
heartily disguised with the meanness
and obsequiousness Of the Dutch, and
when they got back to their own
country the king, Charles H., gave
his brother, James H., everything the
Dutch had in America. He probably
gave it because he meant that James
should fight for it, and not be spon-
ger on the court. James was the CON-
mander of the British navy, and had
the whole naval force of England to
conquer the kings gift with.
The Dutch based their title to New
York on the discovery of Hudson. an
Englishman in their employ, and they
settled New York state az early as 16-
q, and inhabited the whole valley of
the Hudson. portions of Long Island
Northern New Jersey. and. q little
later. settled on the Delaware river.
where they conquered the Swedes
They had q very comfortable and SUBJ
stantial population in this country.
which they called the New Neither
lands, when the English stole march
upon them, and with an expedition
seized New York, the key to their en-
pire, ana soon after seized the settle.
ments on the Delaware. The English,
with their genius for making a con-
quered people gratified and represent
alive, soon paciied the majority of the
Dutch, who divided in an aristocracy
and democracy; and down to the
revolutionary war portion of them
were the most ahject toadies the Eng
lish government possessed The New
Englanders who got into New York
made several efforts to revOlutiOnize
in the interest OF popular institutions.
but they could never do anything
With the arist0cratic Dutch families.
wSo furnished great numbers of tories
in the revolutionary war, and after
the revolution supplied most of the
federalists, like Gen Schuyler, whose
son-in- law was Alexander Hamilton.
an English-born person.
Among the old Dutch who did not
trouble their heads much with politics,
hut were very DESTROYS to make mon