When Stuyvesant clamped down on the excessive drinking in the town, or forbade some of the more obviously pagan folk festivals, or tried to keep the town free of the foolish Quakers… did any of the merchants support him? Hardly any.
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Stuyvesant had learnt to rule wisely. <…> Yet were the people grateful? Of course not. They resented his rule.
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“I shall govern you as a father his children.”
Liberty Magazine : What he told to colonists when he arrived.
“Nothing is of greater importance than the right early instruction of youth.”
History of the State of New York By John Romeyn Brodhead, pg 508 : 1660 on the education of Youth.
Liberty Magazine : On complaints by frontier folks on his reforms.