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Show THE LILY AND TilE TOTSr>f. jccturc, its origin is very doubtful. 11Iontluc, the Marshal, whoso position at the time, and whose interests in tho subject of religion were such as might have cnablt)d him to know quite as well as nny other person, confesses that the source and meaning of tho appellation were unknown. It i~ suggested that tho name was taken from the tower of one ITugon, or lJugo, at Tours, where the Protestants were in the habit of assembling secretly for worship. This, by many, is assumed to be the true origin of tho word. But there arc numerous etymologies besides, from which the reader may make his sclcction,-all more ot less plausibly contended for by tbe commentator!. The commencement of a petition to the Cardinal Lorraine-" lluc nos venimus, scrcnissime princeps, &c.," furnishes a suggestion to one set of writers. Another finds in the words "IIeus q1uncms," wl!icb, in the Swiss patois, signify " seditious fellows," conclusive evidence of the thing for which he seeks. Heghencn or Huguencn, a. Flemish word, which means Puritans, or Cathari, is reasonably urged by Cascneuvo, as the truo authority; while V crdier tells as that they were so called from their being the apes or followers of John Tins-" les g1unons de Ilus ;"-guentnt being a young ape. This is ingenious enough without being complimentary. Tho etymology most generally received, according to :Mr. Browning, (IIistory o( the Huguenots,) is that which ascribes the origin of tho nnmc to " the word Eignot, derived from tl1c G crman Eidegenossen, q. e. fcderati. A party thus designated existed at Geneva; ang. it is highly probable that the French l)rotestants would adopt a. term so npplicnblo to themselves. 11 There arc, however, sundry other etymologies, all of which seem equally plausible; but these will suffice, at least, to increase the difficulties of conjeeture. Either will answer, since the name by which the THE HUGUENOTS. child is christened is never expected to foreshadow his future character, or determine Lis career. The name of the Huguenots was probably bestowed by the enemies of the sect. It is in all likelihood a term of opprobrimn or contempt. It will not materially concern us, in the scheme of tho present performance, that we should reach any definite conclusion on this point. Their European history must be read in other volumes. Ours is but the American episode in their sad and protracted struggle with their foes and fortune. Unlmppily, for present inquiry, this portion of their history attracted but too little the attention of the parent country. We arc told of colonies in America, and of their disastrous tcm1ination, but the details are meagre, touched by the chronicler with a slight and careless Land; and, but for the striking outline of the narrative,-the leading and prominent events which compelled rccord,-it is ono that wo should pass without comment, o.nd with no awakening curiosity. Dut the few terrible particulars which remain to us in the ancient summary, are of a kind to reward inquiry, and command the most active sympathies; and the melaocholy outline of tho Huguenots' progress, in the N cw World, exhibits fc.aturcs of trial, strength and suffering, which render their career equally unique in both countries ;-a dark and bloody history, involving details of strife, of enterprise, and sorrow, which denied them the securities of homo in tho parent land, and even tho most miserable refuge from persecution in .the wildernesses of o. savage empire. Their European fortunes are amply dovolopcd in all the European chronicles. Our na.rrath·e relates wholly to those portions of their history which belong to America. It is not so generally known tho.t the colonies of tho Huguc~ nota, in the new world, were alm08t coeval with thOB& of the |