To have faltered in attempting to bring him into that path, the Prince must have ceased to be William of Orange.

Had he succeeded, there would have been no treason and no Republic of Holland.

His conduct at the outbreak of the Antwerp troubles was firm and sagacious.

Even had his duty required him to put down the public preaching with peremptory violence, he had been furnished with no means to accomplish the purpose.

The rebellion, if it were one, was already full-grown.