Lafayette In Massachusetts August 31 – Chelsea
We thank you for your sacrifices in our cause; and we thank God, who made you to be an instrument of so much good for us. Your visit to our country will give new strength to the institutions, for which under God we are essentially indebted to your services. Its influence will be felt through the civilized world, and it will advance the cause of human liberty and happiness. Yours, Sir, is a triumph of moral, and of Christian feeling. History has but one page, on which it has recorded a similar triumph; and that is the page, on which is inscribed the progress of WASHINGTON through our States.
Lafayette In Massachusetts In 1824 – August 30 Boston
This is part of a series on Lafayette’s visit to Massachusetts August 23, 1824 to September 3 1824. Brigadier General James Appleton Monday August 30 was Lafayette’s...
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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.