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The mere indirect political influence of town-councils has already led to a considerable perversion of municipal elections from their intended purpose, by making them a matter of party politics.
The demagogues throughout a country, the orators of town-councils and vestries, and the lecturers of mechanics' institutes present, doubtless in most cases unconsciously, the ready and fit machinery for the party or the individual that aspires to establish a tyranny. Duly graduating in corruption, the leaders of the mob become the oppressors of the people.
At Rotterdam, on the other hand, and in the other town-councils, where the Arminians had the majority, the Gomarist preachers were expelled from their pulpits; and the Advocate was determined by coercion, if necessary, to enforce the authority of the Estates throughout the province.
This little place has one large square, called Esh-Shelly الشلّي the general rendezvous of business and gossip, and where Shafou and all the subordinate Sheikhs administer justice. Here is held the Souk, where everything important is done. But the town-councils and state-councils of the Sheikhs are generally held in the open air.
For two centuries, the representatives of the town-councils ruled the country without a king, without bishops and without noblemen. The city had become supreme and the good burghers had become the rulers of the land. DATES are a very useful invention. We could not do without them but unless we are very careful, they will play tricks with us. They are apt to make history too precise.
After protesting the Estates adjourned on the 30th until September 12, the deputies alleging that it was necessary to consult their principals in this emergency, but in reality because the suddenness of the blow had stricken them with terror. It was a prudent step, for Maurice was resolved to purge the Estates and the town-councils of Holland, as he had already purged those of Utrecht.
So we talked of other things: of gold, and the placers, and their unimpaired productiveness, of the prospects of the country, and of the character the mineral element must stamp upon its politics, its commerce, and its social system, of San Francisco, and all the enchantments of its sudden upspringing, of Alcaldes and town-councils, of hounds and gamblers, of real estate and projected improvements, of canvas houses, and iron houses, and fires, of sudden fortunes, and as sudden failures, of speculations and markets, and the prices of clothing, provisions, and labor, of intemperance, disease, and hospitals, of brawls, murder, and suicide, till we had exhausted all the Californian budget; and then I bade him good day.
The Prussians Embden Town-Councils inviting their astonished Dutch Battalion not to be at home marched quietly into Embden 'next day, and took possession of the guns. And proceeded to manage it, in like sort, with effects soon sensible, and steadily continuing.
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