Dr. Cartwright Reviewed—The Negro, Ape and Serpent, Part I [pp. 238-250]

238 MOTLEY'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED NETHERLANDS.
be published, and bidding an adieu to Mr. Motley, we hope to
meet him again on the pages of a friendly review, with the
hope that he will present the reader with a minute and
accurate narrative of the great events, and a spirited delineation of the great characters who will arise before him; but firom
what has been said above, the reader may not only anticipate
some inability in the author to fulfil the requirements of a
history of times so portentous and pregnant with the destiny
of nations; and from his avowed radicalism, illy qualified to
expound the grand and conservative philosophy upon which
a good and wise government, of any form, can alone rest, and
as equally disqualified to illustrate the nature and character of
those destructive principles of society whose malarious breath
has so often changed the principles of republicanism into a selfdestructive democracy.
If circumstances shall delay access to MIr. Motley's promised
continuation of the "Dutch History," we propose writing a
paper upon the civil history of the United Provinces, subsequent to the time embraced in the work before us. It is the
most interesting period of the D)utch history, the most instructive: nations learn more from civil history than from battles,
revolutions open the door to national reform and progress, and
we learn the philosophy of the social and political philosophy of
a people when they are at peace.
If the author properly understands the history of Maurice,
the despot, to whom he has already bestowed too much praise,
hle may use his information to the advantage of that government he now represents at a foreign court, and not only hold
up, in advantageous light, the character of the man who, in
becoming stadtholder in Holland, inflicted a stab upon constitutional liberty which should be a warning to the man who
Wsave our author the lucrative post he now holds. But, if he
Sully appreciates the causes which combined to destroy the
constitution of Holland, he may exhibit a lesson of practical
wisdom to his deluded and demented fellow-citizens, who are
destroying the constitutional liberty-we fear he does not appreciate or regard either as a patriot or a philosopher, as he shelters himself from the storm in the quiet alcoves of the luxurious libraries of the Prussian capital.
ART. VI.-DR. OARTWIIGHT REVIEWED-THE NEGRO, APE AND SERPENT.
Dr. Samuel A. Cartwright, of New Orleans, adopting Dr.
Adam Clarke's conclusion that the creature which beguiled Eve
was not a serpent, but walked erect, and was endowed with
'the gifts of reason and of speech, proceeds with arguments of
his own, intended to prove that the creature was not of the