the law, and was sentenced to pay a fine of six hundred guilders,
about two hundred and forty dollars, or to labor two years at a
wheelbarrow, with a negro.

After a few days' imprisonment he was chained to the wheelbarrow and
commanded to work. He refused. A negro was ordered to beat him with a
tarred rope, which he did until the sufferer fell, in utter
exhaustion, almost senseless to the ground. The story of the
persecutions which this unhappy man endured, is almost too dreadful to
be told. But it ought to be told as a warning against all religious
intolerance.

"Not satisfied," writes O'Callaghan,

"his persecutors had him lifted up. The negro again beat him
until he fell a second time, after receiving, as was
estimated, one hundred blows. Notwithstanding all this, he
was kept, in the heat of the sun, chained to the
wheelbarrow, his body bruised and swollen, faint from want
of food, until at length he could no longer support himself
and he was obliged to sit down.

"The night found him again in his cell, and the morrow at
the wheelbarrow, with a sentinel over him, to prevent all
conversation. On the third day he was again led forth,
chained as before. He still refused to work, for he 'had
committed no evil.' He was then led anew before the
director-general, who ordered him to work, otherwise he
should be whipt every day. He was again chained to the
barrow and threatened, if he should speak to any person,
with more severe punishment. But not being able to keep him
silent, he was taken back to his dungeon, where he was kept
several days, 'two nights and one day and a half of which
without bread or water.'

"The rage of persecution was still unsatiated. He was now
removed to a private room, stripped to his waist, and then
hung up to the ceiling by his hands, with a heavy log of
wood tied to his feet, so that he could not turn his body. A
strong negro then commenced lashing him with rods until his
flesh was cut in pieces. Now let down, he was thrown again
into his loathsome dungeon, where he was kept ten days, in
solitary confinement, after which he was brought forth to
undergo a repetition of the same barbarous torture. He was
now kept like a slave to hard work."

His case eventually excited so much compassion that Stuyvesant's
sister interfered, and implored her bro