The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-06-17
"fERF|OIOUS BETRAYAL"
A Repetition Of the Same Old Nefari
u Game Of Britain.
THE DUTCH IN TIE BATTLE OF The lEXtl
Inc Recent War of Devastation and Cruelty Has
Been Almost One OF determination,
What michael Dayitt Says in
His New Book.

HIS NEW DO1h'
ComparativcIy few people know of the
aggressions of the English upon other
peoples; their pugnacity and pertinaclty
in conqucsts. They are indeed the
modern Romans. and as Warllke a race
as this world has ever seen. Ihey love
to fight, and to interfere with othe PEG"
pies. and are indeed colossal invaders
and conquerors. An intelligent reader
who will study Green's volume on the
Making of England" then his tour
volumes, History of the English Peo-
pie" and read with much carefulness
the first 100 or 10 pages on that mas
terly work of Tame on English Lltera-
ture," volume l, will know more of the
formation and growth of English char-
actcr than he has ever been able to
know before. But my theme now IS not
English character, past and present, but
the English and Dutch peoples in the
past. The nearly three years wal Of
destruction and conquest in South Africa,
lust ended, makes this subject interesting.
Once more the Dutch people have become
a subject of much importance-a people
once so prominent in European history,
and who were indeed an cnterprising,
daring and very brave race. Let us make
q brief study through the help of others.
1t is through English eyes we will make
the study, for this writer is English by
descent on both sides. father and mother,
his ancestry on the side of the former
having been in this country since a. d.
1880, and known to have been in Eng
land at least as far back as the eighth
century. We will use the eyes and UNI
~derstanding of one of the contributors to
one Of the three or four greatest of
English Reviews. The Dutch have been
heroic fighters through several centuries
"a stubborn. brave, daring nation, and
scarcely with a modern rival save in
the English themselves. The study of
the English and Dutch races in the past
began afresh in Great Britain after the
vile war of devastation and Obloquy and
savagcry started against the Dutch Beers.
One of the very foremost of the great
English Reviews is the Nineteenth Cen
tury and After" as it is called since
the new century began.
| wish | had the space to follow the
British writer's in regular sequence, to
show what happened that is SO illustra-
tive of the two fighting races, equal to
any the world ever knew. 1t is a fact
that the Netherlands did more than
England did under Elizabeth to break
the force of the Spaniards. They lost
terribly, however, under Charles the
Fifth of Spain (put at 100, 900 victims),
and 10000 under the bloody Duke of
Alva, who was the Weyler and Kitchener
and Jake Smith of his day. The reviewer
says that 1.-The multitudes of the soldier
that lay at Harlem, Leyden and Macs
tricht, and the 100. 600 dead at Osteno,
had saved not only Holland but England.
Note that.
The Dutch were great discoveries as
we'll as fighters. AS early as A. ID. 1894,
they "scnt Linschoten to seek in the
Arctic seas a northwest passage to India.
they sailed round the Cape to java in
l49o, and through the Straits of Magel-
Ian in 1893, exploring at once the North
and the South Poles. The names of their
discoveries are scattered over the oceans,
SpItzbergen and Cape Horn. Vancouver
Island and Van Diemen's Land, New
Holland and New Zealand" They pub
lished a map i'll 1894 of their discoveries.
But wherever they went they were at
once followed by the English. If they
founded Batavia, then as now the CAPT
tai OF their commercial empire in the
East, if they settled in Borneo, Cochin
emma, AmDoyna, and the Spice Islands,
ana secured the trade of India, Japan,
anu Cfy - t1OUZ-l51Z), the English were
ever close on their track, passing from
Benin C15S8) into the Indian seas send
Ing rival traders to the Spice Islands
and Ccylon, to Java and japan 16O6-
1879. When the Dutch, turning from
the Pacific to claim the whole Atlantic
formed q West Indian COMPANY with q
monopoly of trade from Africa to Amer
lea, from Magellan to Newfoundland
tl6OO, the English too sailed west" And
on 1t went, for there is much else given
OF the same kind. If you will consult
tho able review named YOU will he
amazed, first, at the great enterprise and
boldneSs of the Dutch, and. second with
the eager persistency with which they
were watched by the English. who even
stroVc to rival them. The Dutch had
lpo SHIPS In the Gold Coast trade. and
""' whaling ships. This was in 161O-13.
whenever the Dutch in any way ven
'uito 70 interfere with the alleged rights
~ III HheilSh, q great clamor was
raised, and they "rcpudiated the doc
trlne of the great Dutchman Grotius
that the seas were free to all. and
Claimed sole right III at least a hundred
miles round every British coast" Tbev
ever commended that ''the notion of free
seas was against the sene of all peonles y
save the Dutch. How long did England
ablde by that pretention? Only until If
became its interest to violate it. We
nave to skip many interesting pages and
facts without d word. The "Nineteentb
century and After reviewing later
eVents-aftcr 1861 to 1672-says:
The English had neither considered
nor appreciated the stubborn love Of
country and of liberty that marked tho
new Holland. They held to the good old
idea of a petty people of shopkeepers.
Covetous plans of spoliation revived"
Mark that, plans of spoliation reviv-
ed. Ihat shows 1T was no new thing
with England. After awhile war ragged
between the two peoples, and the great