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Title: New Amsterdam and its people : studies, social and topographical, of the town under Dutch and early English rule
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Innes, J. H. (John H.) cn
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Director and Council, to theIleverend Everardus Bogardus, Minister of the Gospel inthis place. Though couched in this ofhcial form, the wholeproceeding is transparently the work of Kieft personally.As his grievances consisted, in large measure, in DominieBogarduss public criticisms upon his administrative acts, heopens his manifesto, with fine relevancy, by attacking theDominies personal habits, critically distinguishing the actswhich he had done, for the six or seven years preceding,when pretty drunk, from those performed when thor-oughly drunk. He then proceeds to animadvert uponDominie Bogarduss conduct in regard to certain matters ofchurch discipline, about which ICieft had as much concern asthe druuuner of the garrison. Gradually getting to the gistof the matter, he reminds the clergyman of his remarks in asermon preached by him a short time before, in which he hadalluded to certain monsters of the tropics, — but you knownot, said you, from whence, in such a temperate clime as
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•i^ I...;-; !, ,:\:- KIEBTS My\NIFESTO 25 this, such monsters of men are pruduceil. They are themighty ones who place their confidence in men, and not inllie Lord! Children nright have told to whom you alluded.Having thus shown liow aptly ho felt these remarks, as wellait certain others of which he complained, to have applied tohimself, the Director j)roceeds to business: All these thingsUing regarded by us as having a tendency towards thegeneral ruin of the country, both Church and State beingendangered where the magistrate is despised, and it beingconsidered that your duty and oath imperatively demandiheir proper maintenance; whereas your conduct stirs up the(Mjople (already too much divided) to mutiny and rebellion,. . . our sacred duty demanded that we seek out a remedyagainst this evil; and tliis remedy we now intend to emi^loy,in virtue of our high commission from the Company, and wedesign to prosecute you in a court of justice; and to do it iudue form we made an order that a

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