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Gazette Of The United States
New York, New York County, New York
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Description of religious toleration in the seven United Provinces, exemplified by Amsterdam, where Calvinists, Catholics, and various Protestant sects and Jews coexist peacefully with equal rights. Presbyterian churches receive government support. American States extend suffrage to all qualified citizens regardless of religion.
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OCTOBER 20.
PERHAPS there is no part of Europe where such an unrestrained toleration is allowed to persons of every religious denomination as in the seven United Provinces: Amsterdam may be given as an epitome of the whole. The established religion is Calvinism, and the people of that persuasion make up one third of the inhabitants, the Roman Catholics another third, and the Lutherans, Arminians, Anabaptists, Quakers and Jews, compose the remainder. Each sect has its particular places of worship, whose pastors may walk the public streets with those distinctions of dress which immediately characterizes them. No advantage is taken of their number or separation to oppress them; on the contrary, they all live in peace and harmony together.
Additional taxes are laid upon any particular persons above those of the established worship. Property is equally secured, and leases taken by all on similar terms for any number of years by every subject of the State. The Presbyterian churches, however, alone are allowed to have steeples, and the preachers of that profession are paid by government, without tithes being imposed, or ministers money collected. The American States, however, have gone farther, for they allow the right of suffrage to citizens and landholders of every religious denomination, provided they are previously qualified by oath, enrolment, or specified property.
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Unrestrained religious toleration in the seven United Provinces, with Amsterdam as epitome: Calvinists one third, Roman Catholics another third, remainder Lutherans, Arminians, Anabaptists, Quakers, Jews. Each has worship places; pastors wear distinctive dress; live in peace without oppression. Equal property and leases. Presbyterian churches have steeples, preachers paid by government without tithes. American States allow suffrage to qualified citizens of every denomination.