. New Amsterdam and its people; studies, social and topographical, of the town under Dutch and early English rule. le Director and Council, to theReverend Everardus Bogardus, Minister of the Gospel inthis place. Though couched in this official form, the wholeproceeding is transparently the work of Kieft 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 pre
. New Amsterdam and its people; studies, social and topographical, of the town under Dutch and early English rule. le Director and Council, to theReverend Everardus Bogardus, Minister of the Gospel inthis place. Though couched in this official form, the wholeproceeding is transparently the work of Kieft 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 Kieft had as much concern asthe drummer 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. KIEFTS MANIFESTO 25 this, such monsters of men are produced. They are themighty ones who place their confidence in men, and not inthe Lord! Children might have told to whom you thus shown how aptly he felt these remarks, as wellas certain others of which he complained, to have applied tohimself, the Director proceeds to business: All these thingsbeing 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 demandtheir proper maintenance; whereas your conduct stirs up thepeople (already too much divided) to mutiny and rebellion,. . our sacred duty demanded that we seek out a remedyagainst this evil; and this remedy we now intend to employ,in virtue of our high commission from the Company, and wedesign to pros
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