The glad tidings were published from the City Hall, with ringing of bell and all other public demonstrations of satisfaction.
The 12th of August was appointed as a day of general thanksgiving to God for his great goodness.

In his proclamation, the Governor devoutly exclaimed: "Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem and Netherland's zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates and blessed your possessions with peace, even here where the threatened torch of war was lighted, where the waves reached our lips and subsided only through the power of the Almighty." From this moral conflict, which came so near being a physical one, Stuyvesant emerged very victorious.

The Company had ever been disposed to sympathize with him in his measures.

The delegate Le Bleuw, who had carried charges against him to Holland, was almost rudely repulsed, and was forbidden to return to New Netherland.

The Directors of the Company wrote to the Governor: "We are unable to discover in the whole remonstrance one single point to justify complaint.