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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 189 (part 4)

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[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] They never caused any good order or regulation to be adopted in the matter, although such had been beneficently ordered and recommended by your High Mightinesses. They never even authorized an investigation to be made into the causes and true origin of the war, or attempted to punish those S°tn"ihe mTnag™ ^ho had raslily commenced it. Hence no little suspicion attaches to their order meDiofihewar. couceming it; 'tis certain, at least, that their officers were chosen more from favor and friendship, than from merit; this does not improve their affairs, but it is for the most part the stockholders' damage and loss. Many of the others doubtless understood their designs. In fine, they fall far too short in the