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Identifier: magazineofamericv18stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
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ughty anger. Poisonous pamphlets appeared day afterday, until there was hardly a crime in the calendar that was not laid at hisdoor. The Belgians were determined to get rid of him, believing that hewas the only formidable obstacle in the way of the formation of the WestIndia Company. Maurice had other reasons. Internal disturbances helpedforward the crisis. The religious disputes became more heated andenvenomed, and serious riots alarmed the country. I will grind the Advocate and all his party into fine meal, said thePrince on one occasion. A clever caricature of the time represented a pair of scales hung up ina great hall. In the one was a heap of parchments, gold chains, and mag-isterial robes; the whole bundle was marked the holy right of each city.In the other scale lay a big, square, solid, iron-clasped volume, marked hi-stitutes of Calvin. Each scale was respectively watched by Arminius andGomarus. The judges, gowned, furred, and ruffed, were looking deco- THE ORIGIN OF NEW YORK
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THE ORIGIN OF NEW YORK 279 rously on, v/hen suddenly Maurice, in full military attire, was seen rushinginto the apartment and flinging his sword into the scale with the Institutes.The civic and legal trumpery was of course made to kick the beam. The patriotic Advocate was finally arrested by order of Maurice, and im-prisoned. You have taken from us our head, our tongue, and our hand,said Matenesse, in the States of Holland. But the States-General tookthe part of Maurice, and looked up all the accusations to the discredit ofthe Advocate on which to form something like a bill of indictment. Theshower of pamphlets began afresh, filled with scandalous statements anddark allusions to horrible discoveries and promised revelations. The clergyupheld Maurice, because having been excluded from political office theywere in active opposition to the civil authorities. They introduced intotheir sermons the strange story that Spain had bribed Barneveld to sign thetruce and kill the West India Compan

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