CHAPTER IX.
THE MOVING WORLD.
If we could look down the long vista of ages, And witness the changes of time, Or draw from Isaiah's mysterious pages A key to this vision sublime; We'd gaze on the picture with pride and delight, And all its magnificence trace, Give honor to man for his genius and might, And glory to God for his grace.
-- PAXTON.
After the surrender of New York to the English, in the year 1665 Peter Stuyvesant went to Holland to report to his superiors.

In order to shift the responsibility from their own shoulders, they declared that the governor had not done his duty, and they asked the States-General to disapprove of the scandalous surrender of New Netherland.

Stuyvesant made a similar counter-charge and begged the States-General to speedily decide his case, that he might return to America for his family.

The authorities required him to answer the charges of the West India Company.

He sent to New York for sworn testimony, and at the end of six months he made an able report, its allegations sustained by unimpeachable witnesses.