Joost van den Vondel Quotes
The hosts of Hell have built their throne in England’s realm.
Reaction when the Dutch heard that the English King Charles I had been beheaded. The regicide was very shocking to most people in Europe—even in the Netherlands which then had a republic.
Joost van den Vondel, 1587-1679, Dutch Playwright, February 1649
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The king was found guilty and was decapitated, but not wearing a crown.
Action he advocated to his followers who attacked and killed pro-slavery advocates in Kansas. The civil war of Kansas was over whether Kansas would enter the Union as a slave state of a free state. If a free state, the free states would be able to block further slavery. If Kansas were to become a slave state, the slave states would have a sufficient majority to make all future expansion hospitable to slavery. The slavery forces started sending man and families into Kansas so that they could vote; the abolitionists did the same. Both sides armed and a war began with each faction trying to kill or drive the other faction out of Kansas before the vote. See {617388} and {612516}.
Actually, these revolutionists were quite moderate and what they wanted was his abdication and for him to go to England but they used the fear of trial and beheading to induce him to leave rather than have a pitched battle. He did.
Joost van den Vondel was a Dutch poet, writer and playwright. He is considered the most prominent Dutch poet and playwright of the 17th century. His plays are the ones from that period that are still most frequently performed, and his epic Joannes de Boetgezant (1662), on the life of John the Baptist, has been called the greatest Dutch epic.
