historic deeds. All this has the State done to preserve and perpetuate in part the memories of men who made her foremost in the history of the Republic; and still it waits duly to honor him who, among the greatest, helped to lay the foundations of the State itself, as told in the records of his time.

Empty niches, with canopies and pedestals complete, there are along the capitol façades, awaiting new forms in real or fancied semblance, and in the portal arches are the shields for inscription to tell the deeds now seemingly forgotten.

What act more befitting, what privilege or duty more instant in its merits, than that the Commonwealth shall set in one of those places of honor a statue, in granite or in marble, of traditional or actual resemblance; as others are, or of the ideal lawyer of his age, and name it Roger Ludlow?

Could the chiselled lips of Hooker and Davenport, Trumbull and Sherman, already standing there, be touched with life, they would bid him welcome as peer, companion, friend, "To the state a Counsellor full Deare," and ask that there be written, on the vacant portal shield, these words:

To the

MEMORY

of

ROGER LUDLOW

Who

Gave to Connecticut

a Body of Laws

and the

First Written Constitution

Which under God

Acknowledged no Power

Superior to

the Supreme Power

of the

Commonwealth

(From Brinley's" Reprint Laws of Connecticut, 1673")

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES.

Acknowledgment is here made to Benjamin Franklin Stevens, Esquire, of London, England, an American of Puritan lineage, son of the founder of the Vermont Historical Society, author of Facsimiles of Manuscripts in European Archives Relating to America, so invaluable to all students, readers, and writers of history; whose services always have been generously accorded to American investigators, and through whose good offices the important facts in Ludlow's life after his departure from Connecticut have been made available.

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