Excerpt from The Dutch at the North Pole, the Dutch in Maine: Paper Read Before the New York Historical Society, 3d March, 1857
It is only recently that the people of the United States have been awakened to a just appreciation of the marvelous deeds, stirring enterprize, and indomitable spirit, which actuated that glorious little nation, the Netherlanders or Hollander - generally, but inappropriately, styled Dutchmen - in establishing their independence. We have yet to learn how much of the world's progress is due to their example; and the practice of every manly virtue. To courage, fortitude and patriotism, they added economy, industry, integrity and intelligence; and had their territorial position and physical power corresponded with the union of such rare qualities, this combined influence would have raised them, as a people, to a height of glory hitherto approached by no other nation in the old world.
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