ABSTRACT
The Dutch, who had attentively observed the conduct both of the oppressors and the oppressed, applied privately to the latter, and offered them both provisions and merchan dise on such terms as they knew would be accepted with eagerness. The colonists readily availed themselves of the advantageous offer; both parties were highly satisfied ; and thus was laid the foundation of a traffic which neither force nor compromise was ever afterwards able to destroy. After many ineffectual efforts to reinstate their power, and secure the wealth which their tyranny had completely alienated, the proprietors, in a moment of despondency, sunk down into a state of inaction, and contemplated the failure of their pro fits without being able to retrench any of their expenses.
