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1,59 o Horace, as there were brave men before Agamem- non, similarly there were martyrs to liberty be- fore the M ayflower 'appeared in Massachusetts Bay, Holland's struggle of eighty years' dura- tion against the mightiest power of that time, un- questionably made possible modern democracy., It lit a train of human revolt, which has slowly and increasingly blasted a pathway of freedgm for humanity through the granite rocks of Caesar- ism and feudalism. To 'the masses of men in every part of the world, struggling to escape from the house of .bondage and into the promised land, it has ever been as la pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. Cflpplausej This memora- ble valor speaks to' us to-night out of the past, reminding us, with an eloquence unattainable by mortal man, of our debt to the dead and our duty to the unborn. Alkmaar, Haarlem, and Leyden -4how, supremely glorious in the annals of history! Could their walls repeat the dreadful sounds and sights which they have witnessed, what a tale of immeasurable sorrow would they not tell!, Mar- tyrdom hallows, and wherever a man has con- sciously laid down his life for a country that he loved or a cause in which he believed, that spot must be forever sacred, for it is a true Calvary, .and there is again repeated the infinite tragedy of the Cross. CAppZcmse.j Thorvaldsen has imperish- ably chiselled both the pathos and the grandeur of this truth in his Dying Lion, at Luzerne: r the head, so expressive of ability, the infinite pathos of the eye, and the thought of fidelity in the paw which tightly presses the shield of the Bourbons- all attest, in imperishable rock, the same imperish- able truth. The streets of Alkmaar, where the
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16o very children fought with the undying courage of their parents, were they not a true via dolorosa? That market-place at Haarlem, where, after a seven months' siege, the defenders were butchered, without respect to age or sex, is it not a golgotha, or place of skulls? The spirit of the Beggars of the Sea was well expressed in those defiant words, hurled from the battlements of Leyden to the remorseless foe: You call us rat-eaters and dog-eaters, and it is true. So long, then, as ye hear dog bark or cat mew, ye may know the city will hold out, and when all has perished but our- selves, be sure that we will each devour our left arms, retaining our right, to defend our Women, our religion, and our liberty. When the last hour has come, we will set fire to the city and perish, men, women, and children, in the flames, rather than suffer our homes to be dishonored and our liberties crushed. CG1'eat applausej That this boast was not an empty one was well shown by that old Dutch admiral, who, having fought against overwhelming odds for forty-eight hours, called his men about him when his ship was a dis- masted hulk, and, with their permission, applied the match to the powder magazine and blew them all into eternity rather than surrender to the foe. Mpplausej p s It is not my purpose, however, to recount this bead-roll of unclouded heroism. The world knows, or ought to know, it by heart. But I wish to call your attention to the fact that this heroism was that of an essentially, commercial and peaceful race. T For some centuries prior to the struggle for independence, Holland had been the most com- mercial, and therefore the most civilized, country 4
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