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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 2 0 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 15: (search)
ovinces; we, who have transformed the wilderness into fruitful farms,—demand, that no new laws shall be enacted but with consent of the people, that none shall be appointed to office but with the approbation of the people, that obscure and obsolete laws shall never be revived. Albany Records, IX. 28—33. I have selected and compressed the prominent points. Every word will, I trust, be found to be sanctioned by the Dutch originals. Of course I have not adhered strictly to the words of Vander Kemp's honest but ungrammatical version. Stuyvesant was taken by surprise. He had never had faith in the wavering multitude; Ibid. VII. 73. and doubts of man's capacity for self-government dictated his reply. Will you set your names to the visionary notions of an Englishman? Is there no one of the Nether- Chap XV.} 1653 lands' nation able to draft your petition? And your prayer is so extravagant, you might as well claim to send delegates to the assembly of their high mightines