rolling extremes; a league of concord, and
yet of the free developement of individual members in their peculiar
customs and forms of government; united by the spiritual bond of a
common faith, of a common _submission to the Gospel_, embraced with a
pure mind and _carried out in practice_; satisfying the understanding
and contenting the heart; one in _its aim_ of worshipping God; diverse
in _its mode_, according to the usage and wants of the country;
tolerating philosophical as little as dogmatical dictators; repudiating
alike the Propaganda and the Jesuits; a league whose members are not
exclusive like Jews, but helpful like Christians--the nineteenth
century can see it realized, if in its free presses a manly openness is
able to triumph over wholesale robbery and keep down human
devilishness, as well as the spirit of hypocrisy.

On the 1st of June, a secret council was held in Zurich, to consider
the outrage of the Schwyzers. Some wished to prohibit the exportation
of provisions, others to revoke the treaties, and a third party to
declare war without delay. The last course was adopted by the Great
Council on the 3d of June, and the tidings sent to Schwyz in the
following language: "Our greeting first! Pious, circumspect, wise,
should our good friends and faithful, dear Confederates be! Your
haughty and defiant letter we have received and considered, and though
you accuse us therein of not keeping covenant with you, we think we
have done it as faithfully and better than you have heretofore; than
you, who have persecuted, unjustly punished, given into other hands,
violently and unrighteously dragged beyond the jurisdiction and laws,
which belonged to us as well as you, miserably tortured and killed many
an honest man merely for asserting his faith and maintaining the honor
of God, by which we and our people, who are pious, honest Christians,
if God will, have also been greatly and severely injured, reviled
and shamefully abused, as to our honor and old, praiseworthy customs;
ill-treated in a wanton manner without cause, surrounded, beaten,
defied, and a pious priest under our protection, whom it became us to
save, pounced upon beyond your jurisdiction, carried off in a scornful,
unjust fashion, before God and to our great displeasure, burned to
death for adhering to God's Word, since you had no other charge against
him. Because now you have always suffered such outrages and injuries to
pass by without punishment, because