The governor has declared that he will not appoint any other select men.

We shall not dare again to assemble in a body; for we dread unjustifiable prosecutions, and we can already discern the smart thereof from afar."[8] Notwithstanding these reiterated rebukes, Stuyvesant persisted in his arbitrary course.

The vice-director, Van Diricklagen, and the fiscal or treasurer Van Dyck, united in a new protest expressing the popular griefs.

Van Der Donck was the faithful representative of the commonalty in their fatherland.

The vice-director, in forwarding the new protest to him wrote, "Our great Muscovy duke keeps on as of old; something like the wolf, the longer he lives the worse he bites." It is a little remarkable that the English refugees, who were quite numerous in the colony, were in sympathy with the arbitrary assumptions of the governor.