{"1": {"fulltext": "The Hero of Our Heroic Age\\nA Sketch of Colonel William Pepperrell", "height": "1760", "width": "2188", "jp2-path": "heroofourheroica01fris_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "1760", "width": "2188", "jp2-path": "heroofourheroica01fris_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "1760", "width": "2188", "jp2-path": "heroofourheroica01fris_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "COLONEL WILLIAM PEPPERRELL.", "height": "1760", "width": "2188", "jp2-path": "heroofourheroica01fris_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "The Hero of Our Heroic Age\\nA SKETCH of COLONEL WILLIAM PEPPERRELL\\nBy IVORY FRANKLIN FRISBEE\\nWhen a great man dies\\nFor years beyond our ken,\\nThe light he leaves behind him lies\\nUpon the paths of men.\\nLongfellow\\nCOPYRIGHT 1900, BY IVORY FRANKLIN FRISBEE\\nR I N T E D AT THE HEINTZEMANN P It ESS, DEWEY SQUARE, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS\\n1", "height": "1760", "width": "2188", "jp2-path": "heroofourheroica01fris_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "FZ3\\n_JS\u00c2\u00a31\u00c2\u00a32-\\nUibrMry of Consiress\\ni.wt) Copies Received\\nAUG 18 1900\\nCopyright entry\\nSECOND COPY.\\nDelivered to\\nORDER DIVISION,\\nSEP 21 1900\\nNo.\\n80071", "height": "1760", "width": "2188", "jp2-path": "heroofourheroica01fris_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "Jietitcateti\\nTo the Honorable Senators of Maine,\\nSttgene %ale am\\nWLiimm iFr\u00c2\u00bb{\\nc whose lives represent the nobility of her\\nfounders", "height": "1760", "width": "2188", "jp2-path": "heroofourheroica01fris_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION\\nf AHE Hero of Our Heroic Age was written for the Pepperrell Association, of\\nI Kittery, Me., at its assembly in 1898. Its purpose is to present, in a brief,\\ncomprehensive sketch, the life of Col. William Pepperrell, the founder of the\\nPepperrell family in America. By repeated solicitation it is given to the public in\\nits present form. To the original address, however, have been added certain incidents\\nrelating particularly to his advent to Kittery. Thus, while giving to the descendants of\\nCol. William Pepperrell renewed interest, it will arouse in others, it is believed, a\\nfuller appreciation of one of the most unique characters of our colonial history, and,\\nin view of the projection of his influence through his own deeds, and those of his\\nson, Sir William, inspire a deeper reverence for the name of Pepperrell, which, in our\\nearly history, stands second only to that of Washington.\\nIvory Franklin Frisbee,\\nJune, igoo Lewiston, Me.", "height": "1760", "width": "2188", "jp2-path": "heroofourheroica01fris_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "That things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half\\nowing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.\\nCOL. WILLIAM PEPPERRELL was born at Tavis-\\ntock, Devonshire, England, 1646. His family was of\\nancient and illustrious lineage, and after centuries of\\nvigor, still preserves its name in the annals of his\\nprovince. This, while noted in itself for its richness\\nand beauty of scenery, lies in the midst of the most\\ndistinguished locality of England.\\nThe little district, washed by the Bristol and English\\nchannels, not only had long been known for its com-\\nmerce, agriculture, and manufactures, but also famed for\\nits mental energy and spiritual vigor. The ocean in all\\nages has been a potent means of civilization. But from\\nthese shores, for over a century and a half, had sailed those great English expeditions for the\\nexploration and ownership of the New World. From these waters the bold Cabot had put to\\nsea, hence Drake had circumnavigated the globe, and from these ports Raleigh, Smith,\\nPopham, Gilbert, and Gorges had projected the colonization of America. Thus, with the\\nreawakening of the world, the mental activity of this people, far above all England, had\\nbecome intensely aroused.\\nAnd so from the coast of Cornwall and Devonshire, which are nearer to Maine than is\\nany other part of England, for over half a century after the ascendancy of Charles I., flowed\\n5", "height": "1760", "width": "2188", "jp2-path": "heroofourheroica01fris_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "to her coast a steady stream of immigration, bringing hither men of wealth and valor, with\\nthe arts of life, and the foremost progressive spirit of the British Isles. Vessels constantly\\nplied between Dartmouth, Plymouth, Falmouth, and the ports on the Bristol Channel and\\nthe Piscataqua, Isles of Shoals, and the Merrimac. So close, indeed, it is said, was the com-\\nmunication between the people of these districts that their families were scarcely broken.\\nThese rock-bound and storm-lashed shores of Maine and New Hampshire seemed to them,\\nin truth, like those of their sea-girt isle. So to these lands they affixed the same names that\\nhad designated the towns, cities, and scenes that they had left and, as we would expect, the\\nsocial life of these towns, too, represented the miniature of old England, save that the prim\\namenities, hospitality, and the sumptuary religious rites of their old homes received, under the\\nspirit of liberty which continually pervaded their new, a more liberal bias and a loftier aim.\\nTo such a people came William Pepperrell, not, however, as an adventurer seeking to\\nreplenish his prodigal purse with nuggets of gold, nor as a fugitive from the religious strife\\nof the Old World. The premature death of his father, and the financial reverses that subse-\\nquently befell his family, had left him, early in life, with only the chief blessing which the\\nancients believed that the gods vouchsafe to man, the aspirations of a noble ancestry. Full\\nof the spirit of his province he sought to rebuild his fortune in the New World and thus his\\nachievements here, by their own heroic vigor, through the vista of over two centuries, glow\\nstill as a beacon light.\\nHis first visits to Maine were upon certain fishing expeditions which were then being\\nsent out to these shores and to the Banks ot Newfoundland. While employed in these he\\nforesaw the superior advantages that the former offered his business and the latent possibilities\\nof this country. Accordingly he soon abandoned the sea, and, with a Mr. Gibbins, went into\\nthe business of curing fish upon the Isles of Shoals, whose rugged cliffs, then teeming with\\nbusy life, seemed not bleak and inhospitable to the new comer.\\nAt Kittery Point, Maine, lived Mr. John Bray, from whose warehouse Pepperrell was\\nwont to refit his vessels and replenish his stores, and, perchance, to anchor his craft more fre-\\n6", "height": "1760", "width": "2188", "jp2-path": "heroofourheroica01fris_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "pepperrell s cove from the tomb lot.\\nTHE PEPPERREI.L CHURCH.", "height": "1760", "width": "2188", "jp2-path": "heroofourheroica01fris_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "", "height": "1760", "width": "2188", "jp2-path": "heroofourheroica01fris_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "quently in the cove, which centuries after should perpetuate his name, that he might catch a\\nglimpse of the shipwright s beautiful daughter, Margery. After four or five years residence\\nat the Isles of Shoals he and Gibbins dissolved partnership, each agreeing to settle on the\\neastern or western coast as lot should determine. But Pepperrell s lot was evolved, undoubt-\\nedly, through the magic of the fair maiden, for he next appears settled at Kittery Point suing\\nfor her hand.\\nMr. Bray was of ancient lineage and of that band of pilgrims who had left Plymouth,\\nEngland, in the early and uncertain days of the Restoration. While yet holding rich estates\\nin the Old World, he was rapidly accumulating others in the New. And the suit of Pepperrell,\\nowing to his slender fortune, was not readily favored by the lord of the estates.\\nBut:\\nWhat if a hundred years ago those close-shut lips had answered No,\\nWhen forth the tremulous question came that cost the maiden her Norman name,\\nAnd under the folds that looked so still\\nThe bodice swelled with her bosom s thrill\\nShould I be I or would it be\\nOne tenth another, to nine tenths me\\nSoft is the breath of a maiden s Yes,\\nNot the light gossamer stirs with less;\\nBut never a cable that holds so fast\\nThro all the battle of wave and blast,\\nAnd never an echo of speech or song\\nThat lives in the babbling air so long\\nThere were tones in the voice that whispered then\\nYou may hear to-day in a hundred men.\\nSoon, however, by a series of fortunate ventures, he won also the father s heart. The\\nBray house, which was old even then, stands still as the most ancient monument in Maine of\\n7", "height": "1760", "width": "2188", "jp2-path": "heroofourheroica01fris_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "colonial times, and its sunny parlor, the witness of the simple marriage rites of William Pepperrell\\nand Margery Bray, is preserved to-day intact, with its quaint windows, wide fire-place, and an-\\ntique paneling and wainscoting. Close at hand, on a site granted by his father-in-law, Pep-\\nperrell built his mansion, which now marks the scene of the founding of the Pepperrell family\\nin America.\\nThis marriage of William and Margery teemed with great events. Through a partner-\\nship with the shipwright and merchant, Bray, Pepperrell was given at once an ample sphere for\\nhis splendid abilities. But a richer fortune inhered in his wife. She exemplified at once the\\nGreek and Christian ideal of beauty, and her high spiritual intuition became to his vigorous\\nqualities a sixth sense, which enthused ever his efforts with the highest purpose. Through\\nthis marriage the old mansion with its stately gables, now a forgotten relic of a glorious past,\\nwas to become a nursery of heroes, the centre of wealth and culture, the favorite resort of\\nthe clergy, statesmen, governors, and of strategic councils. To them a son was to be born\\nwho, while sharing the honors of state with his father, should be courted by the most fashion-\\nable and select society of the colonies.\\nHe, indeed, with a conqueror s might was to become A John the Baptist of the Revo-\\nlution. It was he who should, in truth, prepare America for the establishment of Protestant-\\nism. From the blood of Pepperrell a new race, which Holmes calls the Brahman Cast of\\nNew England, should spring to build and rule a mighty Nation.\\nWhen William Pepperrell had begun his career at Kittery Point, along his wharves,\\nthrough his warehouses, and in the public gatherings of his town, he early manifested in a\\nlarge degree that business energy, pluck, inventive genius, and breadth of spiritual vision that\\nhad characterized his boyhood home. Soon his firm led in all the colonies. It extended its\\noperations to Saco and Portland, sent yearly over a hundred vessels, manned by the hardy sons\\nof Kittery, to the Grand Banks, others on trading expeditions to the southern ports of the\\ncolonies and of the West Indies, or on foreign voyages to the European markets. As his\\nson, William, came into the firm, although owning already the greater part of his own village,", "height": "1760", "width": "2188", "jp2-path": "heroofourheroica01fris_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "MARGERY BRAY PEPPERRELL.", "height": "1760", "width": "2188", "jp2-path": "heroofourheroica01fris_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "", "height": "1760", "width": "2188", "jp2-path": "heroofourheroica01fris_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "and all of Saco, he bought large tracts of land in most of the other townships, from Kittery\\nto Portland, so that, it is said, he could ride thither on his own estate. Largely through his\\nbusiness energy Kittery grew more rapidly than did any other town in Maine. Indeed, during\\nhis greatest activity it paid over one half of the taxes of the State, and his warehouses and count-\\ning room became the coveted commercial college for the sons of the most worthy families. To\\nenter here, under the firm of Pepperrell and son, the Sparhawks, the Vaughns, the Frosts, the\\nChaunceys, and the Wentworths, whose names have no superior in colonial history, deemed it a\\nhigh privilege and an honor. At his death his name had become throughout the colonies the\\nsynonym of pluck and business push, and his firm represented the richest fortune in North\\nAmerica. The firm of Pepperrell and Son was, in fact, to the New World what the Rothschilds\\nare to-day to the Old. It not only paid large taxes to the State, but made possible by its\\nfinancial support every expedition against the foe from Port Royal to Louisburg, for whose\\nequipment alone the junior Pepperrell furnished over five thousand pounds.\\nYet this vast estate was accumulated and preserved amid the greatest dangers, hardships,\\nand vicissitudes of Colonial times. Maine in those days was the frontier, the bulwark of the\\nrest of the colonies. Her territory on the north was almost constantly traversed by marauding\\nhordes of French and Indians, and on the south invested by pirates. Young Pepperrell had\\nhardly entered upon his business at Kittery Point when a malignant savage war broke out and\\ncontinued for nearly half a century with unabated fury. Life then seemed almost a daily struggle\\nfor existence. There was no standing army, but every man was a soldier. Pepperrell in taking\\nthe lead in the defences of his town built, at his own expense, Fort Pepperrell, near the site where\\nFort McClary now stands. Of this he had command and also of the militia at the Point, but\\nlater as Lieutenant Colonel he had under his command the militia of Maine. His men worked\\nat the yards and docks, while wary sentinels guarded the hilltops, or while others from the\\nfort ranged the outposts in search of the savage foe. His fields were the muster ground for the\\nwestern towns of the province where, in almost daily drill, the soldiers were trained under his\\nhand, not only for the tricks of the savage, but also for the strategy of the French. Although\\n9", "height": "1760", "width": "2188", "jp2-path": "heroofourheroica01fris_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "Kittery, on account of her numerous creeks and rivers, was naturally more exposed to the attacks\\nof the Indians than were the neighboring towns, yet by the vigilance of Pepperrell it suffered\\nless than they. Through his courage, energy, and military ability in the face of a combined\\nsavage and skilled strategic force, the light of his colony was ever kept burning.\\nPepperrell also was engaged largely in shaping the judicial affairs of his town and\\nprovince. Amid his great business cares and military duties, he was justice of the peace for\\nthirty-five years, and in 17 15 was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas. Although\\nMaine became a province of Massachusetts, yet she always held her domestic and civil relations\\nintact. Hence, while the quaint penalties of the times for breaking the common law were here\\nenforced, the theocratic code of Massachusetts Bay and of Plymouth never found a hearing.\\nBefore Pepperrell the right of any man to worship God as his conscience dictated was never\\nquestioned. Before him neither German nor Dutchman, neither Catholic nor Quaker was ever\\nindicted for his religious belief. His clear, unclouded sense of justice revolted alike at the atrocities\\ncommitted in the name of piety by Philip II., and those committed in the name of a Jewish\\ntheocracy by Winthrop, Cotton, and Mather. Untrammelled bv any form of mediaeval supersti-\\ntion, he strove always to establish liberty of life and freedom of conscience.\\nPepperrell, too, exerted a great influence in the political interests of the province. Min-\\ngling freely with his fellow townsmen he was their constant adviser, and champion of their rights\\nand privileges. In all of this work, by his position in business, in military and judicial affairs, he\\nwas a commanding power, and, in 1696, he became the people s representative in the general\\ncourt of Massachusetts. In Maine from the time of Gorges, every person before the law had\\nthe right to participate in the government under which he was born, irrespective of property,\\neducation, religion, color, or previous condition. Her provincial government was of two bodies,\\nwhich her people tenaciously maintained through all of her history, and which became the model\\ntor the form of legislation throughout the states and Nation. In maintaining these principles\\nPepperrell acted far in advance of his time. Then the idea of the inalienable rights of men had\\ngained but little attention. It had not found lodgment in the mind even of Roger Williams, for\\n10", "height": "1760", "width": "2188", "jp2-path": "heroofourheroica01fris_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "THE PEPPERRELL MANSION.", "height": "1760", "width": "2188", "jp2-path": "heroofourheroica01fris_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "", "height": "1760", "width": "2188", "jp2-path": "heroofourheroica01fris_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "his form of government, like that of Plymouth and of Massachusetts Bay, was a theocracy. In-\\ndeed, this was the cardinal principle of the revolution. Aye, not until after the Civil War, with\\nall its sacrifice of treasure, men, and blood, did it become, by the fifteenth amendment, fully en-\\ngrafted into our Constitution and even now, in many quarters, this right is not a fact as it was\\nunder the influence of Pepperrell. Lest injustice may thus seem to be done Massachusetts in\\nher Colonial days, it is to be remembered that her attitude toward Maine, although her province,\\nwas wholly mercenary. The one purpose of Massachusetts was to establish a Jewish theocracy.\\nAlthough deriding Maine as her enemy for receiving refugees from her persecution, she aided\\nher in driving the Indians as far as possible from her own borders. Thus, says Chamberlain, the\\nbrunt of the century of Indian wars fell upon Maine. She was the frontier and flying buttress\\nof New England, her soil the battle-ground and her sons the vanguard. Although this aid was\\nof undoubted advantage to Maine, and although there is due Massachusetts a deep debt of grati-\\ntude for her great and substantial services in all of our subsequent history, still no one wishes to\\nignore the intolerance of her colonies in banishing Roger Williams, in persecuting the Quakers,\\nand in executing the so-called witches. So, on the other hand, in studying the character of Pep-\\nperrell, we must note that Maine, notwithstanding the uncertainty of maintaining her government\\namid the hard conditions of the New World, the rivalry of sects, the malignity of the French, and\\nsavagery of the Indians, put, as the first principle of her civil polity the inalienable right of the\\nfranchise.\\nPepperrell was no bigot. His energies were always exerted for the highest social and moral\\nwelfare of the people. Although living in a time when slavery and bond service were common\\nin the other colonies, he never imported the one nor employed the other. He solved both the\\nslavery and labor questions before they began. While he was liberal to the poor, he knew that\\nthe only way to develop a self-respecting, independent yeomanry was to help them develop them-\\nselves. His great fortune, therefore, was acquired by stimulating free labor and enterprise among\\nhis fellow citizens, and it was largely due to this policy that Kittery, as we have seen, for a long\\nperiod paid over half the taxes of the State. It was true, however, that Pepperrell had one or", "height": "1760", "width": "2188", "jp2-path": "heroofourheroica01fris_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "two household slaves. But these were often retained to relieve the town of their support, and\\nin Maine they could not be set free until they had become fitted by their masters to care for\\nthemselves. Yet Pepperrell at his death gave freedom to his slaves, anticipating the father of our\\ncountry nearly seventy years, and John Brown one hundred and thirty. His democratic spirit is\\nfurther shown in the rearing of his family. This, consisting of two sons and six daughters, he edu-\\ncated according to his station. He furnished them not only with the public education of the time,\\nbut, through a Harvard tutor, Rev. John Newmarch, with many of the graces and arts of culture.\\nHis daughters, indeed, foreshadowed the new woman, whom our industrial civilization has\\nbrought so prominently to the front. They were educated with their brothers and like them,\\ninheriting their father s energy and business tact, made many a venture of trade in his ships sail-\\ning to the European markets.\\nYet there was something in Pepperrell s life above mere money getting, loftier than\\nmilitary glory, or judicial fame, and nobler than aesthetic culture. Enthused, as we have\\nseen, by the great Protestant thinkers of England, freed from the vagaries and superstitions of\\nhis time, gifted with a many-minded brain, he was most responsive to the finer culture of the Chris-\\ntian religion. Nor was this chastening, purifying, ennobling influence with him a mere sentiment.\\nIn his daily walks with men he was both charitable and helpful. His hand was open to the\\nneedy, and his home an example of Christian hospitality. Amid all the cares of business, of\\ncourt, of politics, and of an almost constant savage warfare, his great purpose, encouraged by his\\nexemplary Christian wife, was to establish, above all the vicissitudes of the strife of bigots, a State\\nwhere man should be aided by all of his environment of birth, of education, of social, of political,\\nand of religious influence, to rise into the full fruition of his spiritual being. We have spoken\\nof his New Testament-like spirit toward the Catholic, the Papist, and the inly-lighted Quaker.\\nBut the old church, which he founded, and of which, while he lived, he was a pillar, is to-day\\nthe greatest proof of his highest and most enduring labors.\\nAs the weight of years approached, he laid his burden more and more upon his son,\\nwhom now he beheld enjoying the highest position in the gift of the people. Thus at the age\\n12", "height": "1760", "width": "2188", "jp2-path": "heroofourheroica01fris_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "FORT MC CLARY, NEAR SITE OF FORT PF.PPERRELL.\\nTHE BRAY HOUSE.", "height": "1760", "width": "2188", "jp2-path": "heroofourheroica01fris_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "", "height": "1760", "width": "2188", "jp2-path": "heroofourheroica01fris_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "of eighty-seven, in his home, which he had reared as a model of taste and refinement, looking\\nout upon the ocean which was filled with his stately ships, honored and esteemed by his fellow\\ncitizens, surrounded by his cultured and amiable family, rejoicing in the proud honor of\\nhis son, satisfied with the measure of work that he had accomplished for humanity, and filled\\nwith the hope of a glorious immortality, his great spirit took its departure as the sun sinks\\nbelow the rich autumnal glow of the western horizon.\\nIf, in these days, when our resources, manufactures, and commerce have been developed\\nand the laws and facilities of trade have become established, Pepperrell had accumulated his\\ngreat fortune, he would stand among the most sagacious business men of our time. But he\\ncreated his wealth from what From the primeval forest, from the untitled and unfurrowed\\nsoil, from the trackless sea, untraced by chart and unilluminated by the beacon light, while\\nharassed on the one hand by the contentions of hostile factions for the control of the State,\\nand on the other, by the constant dread of the savage foe.\\nIf against these, in revengeful attacks, he had led his soldiers, his name in honor of his\\nbravery would have been emblazoned on the brightest page of our barbaric history. But such\\nwas his skill as an executive officer, in defending his town, that although more vulnerable than\\nothers, it suffered less than any other town in Maine.\\nIf he had been a resident of a rich and populous state instead of the province of Maine,\\nand as judge had carried out the barbaric code of his time, although his acts would be condoned\\nby posterity, he would have been canonized in our ancestor-worshipping history as possessing\\na rare judicial mind. But in an unsettled country, amid new and conflicting cases of civil and\\nproperty relations, by adjusting them according to the higher light of reason and Christianity,\\nhe projected our whole American jurisprudence.\\nIf he had been instrumental by torture, persecutions, and murder in denying to all\\nbut church members the right of franchise, the freedom of speech, and the pursuit of life,\\nliberty, and happiness, he would have had, undoubtedly, ere this, a monument erected per-\\npetuating his deeds in the cause of humanity. But in the face of Cotton and Mather, in fact,\\nl 3", "height": "1760", "width": "2188", "jp2-path": "heroofourheroica01fris_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "against the combined influences of the New and Old Englands that were opposed to all true\\nliberty of conscience and the pursuit of happiness, not only by his own hand did he keep\\nburning constantly the light of liberty, but, also, by his voice and deeds, the spirit of true\\nworship as an undimmed taper pointing ever toward the heavens.\\nSuch deeds are circumscribed by no biography. Through their influence upon man-\\nkind they make the annals of true history. In the formation and maintenance of states, two\\nforms of human greatness appear. The one, seeing the objective relations of affairs, subserves\\nthe interests and receives the honor of contemporaries, and fills with illustrious names the pages\\nof the so-called contemporary histories. The other, beholding the actual relations of material\\nand spiritual entities, creates new forces, invents labor-saving machines, brings under control\\nthe powers of nature, steam, water, and electricity, discovers new continents, and creates epochs\\nin the progress of the race. Men of the latter type live in advance of their times and await\\ntheir just recognition and appreciation until posterity shall have arrived at their status of\\nthought and action.\\nOf such men was Col. William Pepperrell. His pluck and indomitable energy stimu-\\nlated trade throughout every colony of America. His wealth, as we have seen, in equip-\\nping armies in the expeditions against the savage foe, Port Royal, Quebec, and Louisburg, was a\\nbulwark of defence to the whole country.\\nMoreover, he trained many of these men for their prowess and success in battle.\\nNearly the whole force, with their commanding officers, engaged in the siege of Louisburg was\\nfrom Maine, and nearly one third of Sir William s own regiment was from Kittery, who,\\nwith the leader himself, had been directly under the command and drill of the elder Pepperrell.\\nThe great victory at Louisburg was not achieved, as jealous partisans would have us believe,\\nby luck, but by the bravery and skill of veterans, who for twenty years in training and\\nconflict in the field, had been inured and equipped for every form of hardship and danger,\\nled by a general, who in training and military genius, outranged not only the military acumen\\nof the New, but also of the Old World.\\nH", "height": "1760", "width": "2188", "jp2-path": "heroofourheroica01fris_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "", "height": "1760", "width": "2188", "jp2-path": "heroofourheroica01fris_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "", "height": "1760", "width": "2188", "jp2-path": "heroofourheroica01fris_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "These achievements, in which the elder Pepperrell had such a part, opened the way for\\nthe establishment of American liberty on this continent. They kept constantly in the field a\\nbody of trained and skillful men. They gave those northern soldiers confidence in their own\\nability to dare defend their rights, so that the fall of Louisburg, the Dunkirk of America, was\\nthe beginning of a tidal wave that at Quebec swept the power of the French from this land,\\nand at Yorktown planted on this soil the inalienable rights of men forever.\\nThus the principles of Pepperrell, which in his town and State were established as a fact,\\nlong before the puritan colonies dreamed of them, became the conquering principles in found-\\ning our government. The men of Kittery, again and again, had fought for these rights in\\ndefending their firesides. Again and again in public assembly they had decreed that they\\nwould defend them in behalf of the colonies with their lives, if need be, years before a musket\\nhad been fired at Lexington, or ever the hand of Jefferson with a pen of diamond had written\\nthem in our Constitution.\\nAs his life has been felt in our civil polity, so it has been a vital factor in our mental\\nand spiritual progress. He wrote no chronicles of events, but, in the defence of his town and\\nState, he was preparing the battle-ground on which the nation, in the accomplishment of his prin-\\nciples, should make history. He hampered his times with no theological treatise, or religious\\npersecutions, for his life was not of creeds and dogmas, but rose above the highest spiritual life\\nof his time into the clear blue ether of the twentieth century. In no mediaeval hallucination\\ndid he attempt any literature, but through his efforts in establishing the American idea of rights\\nof men, he struck the key note of all literature on this continent.\\nNot only has he given us the spirit of our literature, but his life has been potent in its\\ncreation. The scenes of which he was so great a part have given many a theme for orator, novel-\\nist, and poet. Thus the land of Pepperrell has inspired the pens of Holmes, Whittier, Long-\\nfellow, Hawthorne, and Lowell.\\nHappy are we that the life of Pepperrell is not shrouded in the gloom of myth and fable,\\nthrice happy that his life, illustrated by facts, far surpasses the glory of the most richly wrought\\nJ 5", "height": "1760", "width": "2188", "jp2-path": "heroofourheroica01fris_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "characters of classic lore. Jason with his loyal band from the court of the gods in search of the\\ngolden fleece, was the modern Spaniard in search of gold along the Spanish main. Achilles,\\nAgamemnon, and Menelaus were sackers of cities. iEneas, embodying the consummate wisdom\\nof the ancient world, founded a state whose watchword was self-aggrandizement. It remained for\\nthe heroes, alone of all the world s history, who planted the first colonies on the coast of Maine,\\nmen like Popham and Gorges, to found a state which, in its civil, political, and spiritual relations,\\nhas cherished ever the highest aspirations of mankind. Yet among all these heroes, founders of a\\nnew nation, who endured the hardships and dangers of a stern and stormbound coast, in fertility\\nof business accomplishments, in public spirit, and in majesty of life, Col. William Pepperrell has\\nno peer. Aye, who is there among us to-day whose energies are constantly taxed in transmuting\\nvast products of raw material into populous towns and cities, that in military executive ability, in\\nripeness of judicial spirit, in breadth of statesmanship, and in magnanimous philanthropy can\\nwith him compare\\nIndeed, as projected by the life of this man, the destiny of our republic thus far wrought\\nout is but rudely sketched. Our immense material progress, our multiplied mechanical inven-\\ntions, our utilization of steam and electricity in manufacture and mobilization, our advancement\\nin agriculture and commerce, in the arts and applied sciences, are but the expansion of his work\\nin the accumulation of his fortune. We have by the fifteenth amendment granted the right of\\nfranchise to all, irrespective of color and previous condition, but the complete actuality of this\\nlaw is yet to be achieved. In the extension of the public school and in the foundation of col-\\nleges and churches we have exemplified the higher ministration of wealth. But in the competi-\\ntion for money great bodies of men are still in slavery to selfish capital, great masses in our\\ncities, great areas in our rural districts are still in ignorance and although churches have been\\nmultiplied and literature cheapened and disseminated, yet only now and then the seer appears\\nwho lives in the unbiased freedom of the will. Although the multiplied forms of mechanical\\ninventions, and the consequent progress in manufactures, in agriculture, in transportation, and in\\nmobilization have, by reducing the hours of toil, more than doubled our lifetime, yet, while we\\n16", "height": "1760", "width": "2188", "jp2-path": "heroofourheroica01fris_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "THE PEPPERRELL TOMB.", "height": "1760", "width": "2188", "jp2-path": "heroofourheroica01fris_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "", "height": "1760", "width": "2188", "jp2-path": "heroofourheroica01fris_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "are thus permitted, as never before, to live as the gods, we for the most part spend still our leisure\\nin aimless vapid amusements.\\nThe nineteenth century has been indeed a rag-picking, money-gathering age, but it has\\nlaid the material foundation for the intellectual and spiritual development of the twentieth. In\\nthis, men will come to know the true ministration of wealth, the rich opportunities of leisure, and\\nthe highest purposes in life. In this, through the educational, philanthropic, and spiritual\\nagencies which have already begun to be established, American labor is to be elevated, the intel-\\nlectual and moral faculties of the popular mind quickened and developed, its social feelings\\nwarmed, and all of its energies directed into higher channels. Then the mass of mind, which\\nunhallowed capital now enslaves and poverty buries, shall have been brought into righteous\\nactuality. Then every man and every child in America, through the loving care of our father-\\nland, shall have been elevated into social equality, and each in the possession of his individual\\nrights shall bow in adoration to Him who hath thus far preserved us a Nation.\\nThis work, descendants of Pepperrell, the life of your sire enjoins upon you. The out-\\nward growth of a nation may be compared to the growth of a coral reef which, over the dead\\nbodies of numberless animalcules, rears its crest above the stormy billows, until at length it\\nrejoices in the light of a brighter clime, in rich verdure, the wide-spreading palm tree, and\\nthe populous city. But the true grandeur of a nation is evolved always through the purpose\\nand influence of its founders. As the soul is the essential element in a human organism, so the\\nspirit of the founder, finding expression more and more in the lives of posterity is to be still,\\nthrough you, the essential element in the development of the Nation.\\nWhen, by succeeding ages, time shall have filled out our prospective destiny, and the ele-\\nments wrought in its completion shall have been justly weighed, when the British and American\\nraces, in federal alliance for the spiritual elevation of the race, shall have looked back to the origin\\nof their new birth, of the Brahman race of the world, the scribe of history will retrace its rise to\\nthe land of the Pepperrells. And unnumbered hosts of bold yeomanry, statesmen, novelists, and\\npoets, in annual pilgrimages to the shrine of our hero, shall bear ever a fresh perpetual inspira-\\ntion from his life in the motto of our grand commonwealth, Dirigo, I clear the way.\\n*7", "height": "1760", "width": "2188", "jp2-path": "heroofourheroica01fris_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "AUG 18 1900\\nTHE SPARHAWK HOUSE, KITTERY, MAINE.", "height": "1760", "width": "2188", "jp2-path": "heroofourheroica01fris_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "", "height": "1760", "width": "2188", "jp2-path": "heroofourheroica01fris_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\niiiiiiiiiiniL\\n012 608 446 8", "height": "1760", "width": "2188", "jp2-path": "heroofourheroica01fris_0036.jp2"}}