New-York tribune., 1891-12-17
r.rlECTIONS FROM THE MAIL
,rrcH AND ENGLISH LIBERALISM.

.,rnrxe TO ASSERTIONS OF DUTCH INFLUENCE
oS IN NEw ENGLAND.
- Edttor Of The Tribune
~ permt me a word of protest against the repro.
I'm made oy the Rev. DR.. Grfhs OF the superi
:, Dutch 10 English liberalism at and before the
eos os....nt Of New England, and the partly Dutch
- ,be ideals planted in America by the Pilgrim
@t r,r,tan founders OF New-England. Yoa Justly
% 90, the American debt TO Holland is colossal II
s.ets are as DIR. Griffs states them. But the
~ colossal thing IS the invention used by the
N a, the statement, who seems 10 have studied
s' an N. school OF Ignatius Donnelly. Yiu quote
's ...se nom DR.. Griis which shows con, ,lusvely
r,,r wildneSs Of his invention. - refer TO this ::
~ - colonists to New-Eneland. numbering 2l.0oO
had left their native land before 1910 and
~, e. n America, thousands Of them by way of Hol.
-. As a matter Of fact the 81 900 persons in
'.-,,on who may be described as Engshmen.s in.
~r.,s women and children as we'll as men. and not
w.. olo Of them, less rather than more, ever saw
n.Ds or went TO America except direct from Eng.
"a palfrey's History Of New-England" says:
sTs, founders of the commonwealths OF which !
"a. we're Englishmen Their emigration to New.
s,s,nd began In 1920. 1t was inconsiderabe till
100. S At the bnd Of ten years more it almost
..,ssa. peoT& consisting at that time Of not many
~. than 10000 persons thenceforward multiplied
fs
.rnunities for nearly a century and a half. :.
,s.-. ,s probably not county in England occupied
:, population Of purer English blood than theirs.
"a a, rsce sti1 more specially to be characterized
. ,spresenting peculiar type OF the Englishmen Of
,bt seventeenth century.
Az the end OF ten years from Winthrop's arrival
,,ut Of eco Engllshmen, 1000 families, including
N. few hund;eds who were here before him, had
,Tr IN 300 vessels, at cost of 100000 pounds ser
ing
s Providence with reference to the fifteen years
.r,o. 10 l643,s the statement that the number Of
snsn women and children passing this wide
4 spposed to be 81 200 or theeabout," and g the
,unher Of ships that transported passengers o96.'
Not one Of these ships. single zone Of these
si 200 persons, went by way OF Holland, ever saw
Holland. The only Englishmen who were In Holland
ntore emigrstlng 10 America were the persons who
scsme exles as "Separatists,' which none of the
>, 900 Puritans did. One very small company of New
yprand founders not included in Johnsons 81 200,
ssrer Counted more than 300 and in fact, very
iale II any, exceeding 200, were the Plymouth PHI
sSms whose life in Holland fell into the twelve years
Os-le20 when the Dutch Republic was, TO Mot
kys word, hells of despotism and bigotry, the
murdered Barneveldt for no reason but his republican
love Of liberty. What Holland was or did before or
ssr the period in question is not 70 the point but, in
Art Dutch culture never at any time showed pure
strain Of freedom English at its best, and the Eng
In origins OF liberty were at once as independent and
\ superior If Dutch had never existed. The Pill
Gin ideals especially. from 1908 to 1928, were far in
sdrsnoe OF Dutch, and as Independent OF Dutch dongs
ssssespes or S SShn Wc OF X kins & AH5ed s hph inc
., New England founders, that many Of them, espc
daily their leaders had breathed long and deeply the
lr Of freedom in republic has nothing whatever TO
jnstfy it. The leaders in question were never on
Dutch soil, and Dutch rule during the time Of the Pill
s at Leyden permtted nobody to breathe the air OF
MW.Hsven, Dec o, 1851. EDWARD C, TowNE.