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cated with unerring finger the point of divergence from 

 the principles of eternal truth. He. saw that what a 

 government had to do, whether of a colony or of a 

 nation, was to restrain its citizens from invading each 

 others rights, and compel them to respect each others 

 freedom. This was the keynote of his long struggle 

 against the Proprietaries of Pennsylvania, and made his 

 heart so brave and his eye so quick and his guard so 

 true. He fought the same fight that David Lloyd had 

 waged and stood on the same basic principles for which 

 Pym had thundered and Hampden died. He refused 

 to let Logan's sophistries confuse his head or the Pro- 

 prietary interest seduce his faith. He stood forth as 

 Democracy incarnate. He never lost his grasp upon 

 chartered rights and never bowed the neck or bent the 

 knee. It was this spirit that made him the trusted rep- 

 resentative of the Colonies in England, and sustained 

 him in noble silence when ribaldry and abuse were 

 rained upon his brow. His character was unscorched 

 by the cry of "Thief," and the burning letters "FUR" 

 which were hissed at him by Wedderburn were trans- 

 formed by the magic of French divination into " VIR." 

 In the gayest of ancient capitals, surrounded by states- 

 men, courtiers, savants and flatterers, he was the favorite 

 of royalty, but remained an untainted American. As a 

 statesman he wrote his name beneath the Albany Plan 

 of Union, the Declaration of Independence, the French 



