omport like loyal and peaceable subjects--to go to church
regularly on Sundays, and to mind their business all the week
besides. That the women should be dutiful and affectionate to their
husbands,--looking after nobody's concerns but their
own,--eschewing all gossipings and morning gaddings,--and carrying
short tongues and long petticoats. That the men should abstain from
intermeddling in public concerns, intrusting the cares of
government to the officers appointed to support them,--staying at
home, like good citizens, making money for themselves, and getting
children for the benefit of their country. That the burgomasters
should look well to the public interest,--not oppressing the poor
nor indulging the rich,--not tasking their ingenuity to devise new
laws, but faithfully enforcing those which were already
made,--rather bending their attention to prevent evil than to
punish it; ever recollecting that civil magistrates should consider
themselves more as guardians of public morals than rat-catchers
employed to entrap public delinquents. Finally, he exhorted them,
one and all, high and low, rich and poor, to conduct themselves _as
well as they could_, assuring them that if they faithfully and
conscientiously complied with this golden rule, there was no danger
but that they would all conduct themselves well enough. This done,
he gave them a paternal benediction, the sturdy Antony sounded a
most loving farewell with his trumpet, the jolly crews put up a
shout of triumph, and the invincible armada swept off proudly down
the bay."

The account of an expedition against Fort Christina deserves to be
quoted in full, for it is an example of what war might be, full of
excitement, and exercise, and heroism, without danger to life. We take
up the narrative at the moment when the Dutch host,--

"Brimful of wrath and cabbage,"--

and excited by the eloquence of the mighty Peter, lighted their pipes,
and charged upon the fort.

"The Swedish garrison, ordered by the cunning Risingh not to fire
until they could distinguish the whites of their assailants' eyes,
stood in horrid silence on the covert-way, until the eager Dutchmen
had ascended the glacis. Then did they pour into them such a
tremendous volley, that the very hills quaked around, and were
terrified even un