[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] As we shall treat of the reasons and causes by which New Netherland has been reduced to its present low and ruinous condition, so we consider it necessary first to enumerate them separately; and, in accordance with our daily experience as far as our knowledge extends, we here assert in one word, and none better offers, 296 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. uie*" r^u'in"of"'NVw that tlie causB IS bad govemment with its attendants and consequences. With Neiiieriand. ^^^ j^^gj. \{g\ii ^g canHot pcrceive any other than this to be the sole and true The goveromoni of foundation stoue of the decay and ruin in New Netherland. This ffovernment New Nelherland i« •' ° twofold; ihe orders frgj,-, -which SO much abusc proceeds, is two fold; to wit, in Fatherland by the 'acta Company, and in this Country. We shall first briefly proceed to point out some of tbe Director. Q^ders and mistakes of Fatherland, and afterwards pass to the others, and see how they have here grown up and waxed strong. Sd ^th^lT"^ ""lana I" ^'^^ infancy of this country, the Directors adopted wrong plans and in our '"°"^-opinion looked more to their own profit than to the country's welfare, and trusted more to interested than to sound advice. This is evident from the unnecessary expenses incurred from time to time; the heavy accounts from New Netherland; the taking up Colonies mostly by Directors; their carrying on commerce, to which end trade has been regulated, and finally from not colonizing the country.