Lafayette In New England In 1825 – Montpelier June 28-29
Accept, dear General, our united aspirations for your health and long life. With you, may the evening of life be peculiarly pleasant – like the setting sun after a glorious day, sinking gradually, and throwing back increasing beauty and splendor with every expiring beam. May kind hands and affectionate hearts soothe and administer to every want, and smooth the pillow of declining age; and when at length the “vital spark” shall quit its earthly tenement, may the angel of Death open to you the portals of eternal bliss in Heaven.
Lafayette In New England In 1825 – Randolph VT June 28
Morrill later remarked that if all the traditions could be believed, the general had dinner at four different taverns that day and spent the night at three different places and was “entertained” at several other road-houses” on the
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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.