The Peril of the Republic of the United States of America - Percy T. Magan

Jesus Christ was not present in the consecrated
wafer, from fifty to one hundred thousand Dutch
perished according to his edicts. Well has Motley
said that his “name deserves to be handed down to
eternal infamy, not only throughout the
Netherlands, but in every land where a single heart
beats for political or religious freedom.”
But even in this life his crimes went not
unpunished. “While he was preparing to crush,
forever, the Protestant Church, with the arms which
a bench of bishops were forging, lo, the rapid and
desperate Maurice, with long red beard streaming
like a meteor in the wind, dashing through the
mountain passes, at the head of his lancers--
arguments more convincing than all the dogmas of
Granville! Disguised as an old woman, the emperor
had attempted, on the 6th of April, to escape in a
peasant’s wagon from Innspruck into Flanders.
Saved for the time by the mediation of Ferdinand,
he had, a few weeks later, after his troops had been
defeated by Maurice at Fussen, again fled at
midnight of the 22nd of May, 1555, almost
unattended, sick in body and soul, in the midst of
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