![]() It was this which supported the States of Holland against a body of veteran troops through a thirty years’ war with Spain, then the greatest monarchy in Europe, and finally rendered them victorious. ![]() It was this which in ancient times enabled the little cluster of Grecian republics to resist, and almost constantly to defeat, the Persian monarch. Mason, rose to address his fellow delegates to the Convention saying…Įvery husbandman will be quickly converted into a soldier when he knows and feels that he is to fight not in defense of the rights of a particular family, or a prince, but for his own pro aris etfocis which has, in all ages, performed such wonders. The best example of this idea was given by George Mason-“Father of the United States Bill of Rights”-while addressing the delegates at the Constitutional Convention. For this reason, the Founding Fathers placed responsibility for primary personal protection upon the shoulders of individuals-as was true of government in general. Like the Huguenots, America’s Founding Fathers were mindful of the tyranny visited upon them by their own government. To this brief list, the name of Elias Boudinot-president of the Continental Congress and distinguished patriot-may also be added. In fact, the Father of America, George Washington, was the grandson of a Huguenot on his mother’s side, and America’s first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Jay-himself a Huguenot descendant -was the first president of The Huguenot Society of America (1883-1894). Jacob Duche-the first chaplain of Congress-was a descendant of Huguenots who immigrated to America with William Penn Quaker, Anthony Benezet, founder of the the first anti-slavery society (1775), was a descendant of Huguenots and to these few names could be added many, many Huguenots who helped to form the character of America. Irénée du Pont brought his expertise for making gunpowder goldsmith Apollo Rivoire-father of well-known Paul Revere-brought his craftsmanship to the colonies Rev. They supplied the American colonies with ministers, farmers, soldiers, sailors, craftsmen, expert artisans, physicians, and individuals who engaged in government. In America, Huguenots settled almost along the entire eastern coast, but congregated especially in the states of South Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, and Massachusetts. More than 400,000 Huguenots migrated from France to other nations, and the loss of France was the gain of those nations to which they fled. Īs demonstrated by the status of Admiral Coligny, Huguenots often obtained considerable standing in their homeland, and their flight would create a cultural vacuum from which France would never recover. ![]() France had opened her own veins and spilt her best blood when she drained herself of her Huguenots, and everywhere, in every country that would receive them, this amazing strain acted as yeast. The Huguenots went to the Lowlands, to England, Switzerland, America. Author Esther Forbes, in her biography of Paul Revere, noted the migration of Huguenots and their influence upon their new homelands: Under such severe extended persecution, many Huguenots left their homes in France for other countries. This position was advanced by Protestants and emerged again in the American descendants of French Huguenots. The massacre was the impetus for the emergence of monarchomachism–the belief that the people of a nation possessed the right to resist tyrannical monarchs by severely restricting their rights or throwing off their rule completely. On the twenty-fourth,Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, early French Protestant leader, lost his life at the hands of Catholic assassins. Under orders from King Charles IX, Catholics began by assassinating a group of Huguenot leaders and then expanded their slaughter throughout Paris and into the countryside and other urban centers, killing as many as 30,000 Huguenots in the ensuing weeks. And, from 1562 to 1598, Huguenots endured eight savage wars and massacres, the worst of which occurred the night of August 23-24, 1572 and is remembered as the St. ![]() While Protestants advocated a biblical form of republicanism of the people (Exodus 18:21 Acts 6:3), Roman Catholics advocated centralized government, which manifested itself in state government in the form of a monarch and in church government in the person of the pope.įrom 1538 to 1562, French Protestants Huguenots experienced fierce Catholic persecution. ![]() After 1560, the French Protestants became known as Huguenots and formed a powerful kingdom within a kingdom. By 1559, nearly 400,000 Protestants lived in Catholic France. ![]()
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