erests of France, instead of
those of their own country, he unveiled, without fear or restraint, the
ruinous consequences of this scandalous trade, laid bare its secret
hiding places and tricks, and encouraged the better spirit of the
people to a wholesome resistance. But notwithstanding, the cunning
seducers knew how to restrain themselves, and in spite of all, they
gained firmer footing, and although the Perpetual Peace, lately
concluded with France, did not give them all they sought for, they
still received by it a more secure position for further intrigues.

But at length their hatred broke out into open flame against the bold,
troublesome speaker--the preacher, who dabbled in politics--the
fanner's son of a remote district, who had the presumption to attack
the great ones of the land, the old patrician families, and who, though
himself not pure, nevertheless cast blame on others. Full of avarice,
envy and hypocrisy, the proud, the fault-finders and the spiritual
dwarfs met together. They whispered, fanned their rage, shook their
heads, reviled, threatened; in a short time they had no rest, till he
wished himself away; and hence, at a later period, he thus wrote to
Vadianus, "Nothing else could have induced me to change my situation
but the intrigues of the French. I am now at Einsiedeln. I would tell
you what injury the French faction has done me, if I did not think that
you knew it already. I had to take part in affairs, and have suffered
and learned to suffer much evil."

We will now examine the charges, that were brought against Zwingli,
keeping steadily in view the position as to science, character, and
fitness for his calling, which he occupied, when he left Glarus. As the
indispensable fruits of a republican form of government we look for
freedom to be good and true, decision of character, and the
unrestricted development of every nobler feeling and of every kind of
profound knowledge. When it protects and fosters such tendencies, and
makes good its title to an honorable place among other forms. But when
it fails so to do, because of democratic, or aristocratic degeneracy,
it then writes its own condemnation. Zwingli began his labors as a
republican, in whom the citizen was not lost in the priest. And this we
must always bear in mind, so as not to do him injustice, when we see
him working as resolutely in the state as in the church. Whether this
course can be defended in our time does not concern us. It seem