A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . d, matters, in fine, in such a state, that it will be with us according tothe words of the prophet: Who draws the sword shall perish ofhunger and cold. To the States General they wrote that thewretched people must skulk, with wives and little ones that still areleft, by and around the fort on the Manhattes, where we are not onehour safe. They hu
A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . d, matters, in fine, in such a state, that it will be with us according tothe words of the prophet: Who draws the sword shall perish ofhunger and cold. To the States General they wrote that thewretched people must skulk, with wives and little ones that still areleft, by and around the fort on the Manhattes, where we are not onehour safe. They humbly prayed for such assistance as their HighMightinesses should deem most proper, that they might not be left aprey to these cruel heathens. A terrible winter, and one full of sad forebodings, followed thesending out of these earnest letters of appeal. The suffering people,crowded at the southern end of the beleaguered island, and Desperatedreading the Indian arrows even at the doors of the little the^coiony?^huts that clustered about Fort Amsterdam, could see no ^^^hope of better days in the future ; and the many who could find pas- 1 Then the meeting-place of the States General; now used as the repository of the ar-chives of the The Binnenhof. 460 PROGRESS OF DUTCH COLONIZATION. [Chap. XVII. sage in the vessels going to Holland in the autumn, felt that theywere leaving a colony that could never rise again. In this anxiousand forlorn crowd was Roger Williams, who was at Manhattan to takeship for Europe, the Boston Puritans not tolerating his presence amongthem long enough for him to get a fair wind and go to sea. Theirtownes, he says, were in flames .... mine eyes saw the flames attheir towns, and their flights and hurries of men, women, and children,the present removal of all that could for Holland. ^ It was only withthe really desperate straits of midwinter, when all attempts to gainaid from their English neighbors had failed, that the spirit of the EightMen a
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