. The hero of our heroic age; a sketch of Colonel William Pepperell. fluence in the political interests of the province. Min-gling freely with his fellow townsmen he was their constant adviser, and champion of their rightsand privileges. In all of this work, by his position in business, in military and judicial affairs, hewas a commanding power, and, in 1696, he became the peoples representative in the generalcourt of Massachusetts. In Maine from the time of Gorges, every person before the law hadthe right to participate in the government under which he was born, irrespective of property,educa
. The hero of our heroic age; a sketch of Colonel William Pepperell. fluence in the political interests of the province. Min-gling freely with his fellow townsmen he was their constant adviser, and champion of their rightsand privileges. In all of this work, by his position in business, in military and judicial affairs, hewas a commanding power, and, in 1696, he became the peoples representative in the generalcourt of Massachusetts. In Maine from the time of Gorges, every person before the law hadthe right to participate in the government under which he was born, irrespective of property,education, religion, color, or previous condition. Her provincial government was of two bodies,which her people tenaciously maintained through all of her history, and which became the modeltor the form of legislation throughout the states and Nation. In maintaining these principlesPepperrell acted far in advance of his time. Then the idea of the inalienable rights of men hadgained but little attention. It had not found lodgment in the mind even of Roger Williams, for10. THE PEPPERRELL MANSION. :•. / his form of government, like that of Plymouth and of Massachusetts Bay, was a theocracy. In-deed, this was the cardinal principle of the revolution. Aye, not until after the Civil War, withall its sacrifice of treasure, men, and blood, did it become, by the fifteenth amendment, fully en-grafted into our Constitution ; and even now, in many quarters, this right is not a fact as it wasunder the influence of Pepperrell. Lest injustice may thus seem to be done Massachusetts inher Colonial days, it is to be remembered that her attitude toward Maine, although her province,was wholly mercenary. The one purpose of Massachusetts was to establish a Jewish deriding Maine as her enemy for receiving refugees from her persecution, she aidedher in driving the Indians as far as possible from her own borders. Thus, says Chamberlain, thebrunt of the century of Indian wars fell upon Ma
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