Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-01-28
Pilgrim Notes.
BY REV. u: G.. ToWNE.

By REV. q: G. TowNR.
No. III.
Speaking of Barneveld as tthe prime
minister of European Professionalism"
whom s'there was none to rival, few to
comprehend and fewer still to sustain"
while Prince Maurice, cat that moment the
great soldier of Professionalism, was COM
ing under tho influence Of the evil genius
of jealousy, Mr.. Motley says that Gin tho
position of circumstances about 1915 Bar
.neveld, "the statesman and the prophet
of political and religious liberty through
out Europe, neglected too much the furi-
GUS hatred growing up among Protestants
within the narrow limits of his own PROV
ince" It was "of the little province of
Holland, during sorty years of as troubled
and fertile an epoch as any in human his
tory" that Barneveld was the advocate
and Seal Keeper" There were six other
PROV inces in the Union known as ''the
States-Genera1," but Holland had more
wealth and power than all the
six other states combined and
easily imposed a supremacy
which the others were fain to conceds.
Her advocate or minister of state, which
Barneveld was from 1886, twas virtually"
says Motley, prime minister, president,
attorney general, finance minister and
minister Of foreign affairs of the whole re-
public" The Netherlands had embraced
ten southern or Belgian provinces, as well
as seven of the strictly Dutch, but the ten
were far more Catholic than the seven. and
although from January, 1879, basis
known as the "Union of Utrecht" had
been q nominal bond for all the seventeen
provinces, nevertheless the ten southern
were broken off by 1885 and in the time Of
Barneveld's power, from 1886 onward, it
was the seven only which made the Dutch
states general.
It was hardly republic, but confed-
eracy-"a raft loosely strung together" az
Motley says, "the sovereignty Of the coun-
try scattered through multitudinous boards
of neutrality-suspicious. corporations, self.
elected in every city" Nothing could
be more preposterous," declares Mr.. Mot
constitution been copied instead of avoided
by the fathers of our own republic the
consequences would have probably been
disastrous Disintegration of the COM
monwealth at IN early day, and possibly
the birth of hundred rival states, with
different religions, laws and even Languages
such might have been the phenomena 1-
hibited on what is now the soil Of the
United States"
The opinion set forth by some of oul
journals, like the N. Y. Tribune, that such
Englishmen as the Pilgrim founders copied
what they saw in Holland, is thus shown
to be fatty contrary to the true facts. An6
this would be absolutely demonstrated by
simple review of the English free ideals
and the New England free practice of tht
Pilgrim founders. These founders began
from date earlier than their Dutch ex
perience, with most clear and complete
conception of the absolute independence
ton b-Christ, and carried these idea
out into plans of civil commu
nifty far purer in the spiri
perfect in the form, thai
| the best which Holland had achieved
and they did this, not from Dutch i'm
| pulse or any influence Of Dutch example
but under the pressure of circumstance
| and the working in that direction o
native genius; both of which not onl..
dated from the time before they left Eng
land, but took course in Holland ant
in America, far above the Dutch ant
without Dutch or any other help, becaus
of the clear English genius that way o
these first originators of Independence il
religion and of freedom under democrac,
in the state.
In regard to the great question Of churcl
| and state, Mr.. Motley says that federation
in the sense of abstinence from inquisi
ton, had been secured; and yet, he says
there was an established Calvinous creed
under the principle cujus regio ejus re
igio, which twas an impudent invasion o
| human right" The Reformed church O
| Dutch Calvinist foundation went to tn
extreme Of Professionalism, as Mr.. Motle
| says: "Nothing could be more imperiou
than it's dogma, nothing more in
| fallib1e than its creed" The owner
| ship of the churches, and charge q
worship, the appointing of preachers an
| the control of education were claimed t
belong to the civil power by its represents
| tives, at the head of whom was Barnevald
while the representatives of dominant Cal
vinism assigned all this to the church OF
CARNATIONS. In 1890 Barneveld secured
compromise creating appointing board
| of civil. Meanwhile Prince Maurice, VIII
was created governor Of the United Prov
inces at seventeen years of age, after hi
fathers assassination July 10, 1884, an
also stakeholder of Holland, had risen
the highest military greatness and wishe
| to be in fact what he was in pride an
power-the king of Holland.
Mr.. Motley says that ''the Netherland
| drifted into confederacy of aristocrati
| republics. not because they had plan
ned republic, but because they could nc
| get king, foreign or native" cit was
as it were," he further says, Gin their ow
despite and unwittingly that the Unite
Provinces became republic at all. L
pendence, had they attempted to anne
themselves to France and to England
The stakeholder prince (Maurice) was n
! republican. His father had been offere
the sovereignty, and, in all human proba
bility, only his death had prt
vented him from becoming constitutions
monarch of AL the Netherlands" Th
offer of the crown would have been mad
| to Maurice also, had not circumstance
prevented. "The provinces" says MI
Motley, chad not pledged themselves t
republicanism, but rather to monarchy
and the crown could by no possibility b
But Barneveld had come to know and
represent the more democratic tendencie
| of the Dutch commonwealth, and when b
was secretly importuned to secure tn
crown for Maurice, he set forth stron
reasons for pronouncing that it coul
never be- 'iThus," says Motley, eth
foundation was laid of that terrible enmit
| which, infamed by theological passion
was to convert the period Of peace into
hell" This period was 1909 to 1920. Th
Pilgrims lived in Holland during just thi
period, when Holland was hell throug
theological intolerance and the anti-reput
lican attitude of tho prince-soldie
Maurice. How that was will more full