The contracting parties bound themselves together to spend all their treasure and all their blood in expelling the foreign soldiery from their soil.

To accomplish this purpose, they carefully abstained from intermeddling with internal politics and with religion.

Every man was to worship God according to the dictates of his conscience.

Every combination of citizens, from the provincial states down to the humblest rhetoric club, was to retain its ancient constitution.

The establishment of a Republic, which lasted two centuries, which threw a girdle of rich dependencies entirely round the globe, and which attained so remarkable a height of commercial prosperity and political influence, was the result of the Utrecht Union; but, it was not a premeditated result.