The Flushing Remonstrance - 350th Anniversary


	The Flushing Remonstrance - 350th Anniversary

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12-16-2007 11:56 AM

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This Christmas marks the 350th anniversary of</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/simon_jenkins/article3056758.ece">a fragile piece of paper called the
Flushing Remonstrance</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/simon_jenkins/article3056758.ece">
Written in 1657 by the English citizens of</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/simon_jenkins/article3056758.ece">Flushing, it asserted their right to freedom of conscience against the
autocracy of Peter Stuyvesant, the Dutch governor of their colony of New
Netherland. It thus long predated the “self-evident truths” of Jefferson’s
1776 Declaration of Independence</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/simon_jenkins/article3056758.ece">
The Flushing Remonstrance protested against Stuyvesant’s arrest, torture and
expulsion of a Quaker preacher for defying his ban on all religions but
Dutch Reformed protestantism. The 30 signatories were not themselves Quakers
but demanded that in the new colony: “If any persons . . . Presbyterian,
Independent, Baptist or Quaker . . . come in love to us, we cannot in
conscience lay violent hands upon them.” Indeed they demanded that “the law
of love, peace and liberty . . . [extend] to Jews, Turks and Egyptians</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/simon_jenkins/article3056758.ece">“Let every man
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