ADRES AAS DE EDELMOGEN DE HEEREN STATEN-GENERAAL, TWEEDE KAMER. IN GED
by SCHOLTE, H.P.
SCHOLTE, H.P. ADRES AAS DE EDELMOGEN DE HEEREN STATEN-GENERAAL, TWEEDE KAMER IN GEDIEND DOOR AFGESHEIDENE GEREFORMEERDEN. Amsterdam: H. Hoveker, 1838. 8vo. Disbound. (x), 26 pages. First edition. Hendrik Peter Scholte was a Dutch Reformed clergyman who broke with the Netherlands state church in 1834 and later urged emigration to the United Sta as a means for their church members to escape persecution at home. This is a key religious tract by Scholte in which he claimed the right to absolute free of religion. This was denied and Scholte and his followers came to the Unite States in 1847 to found the settlement of Pella, Iowa. No copies listed in t NUC. Rare. (Inventory #: 4856)