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
Lafayette In New England In 1825 – Royalton VT June 28
“Of all the pictures that hang on memory’s walls none is more vivid to me today than the scene of Lafayette’s visit to my native village. I stood holding my mother’s hand, in the front door of my old homestead, and saw a carriage drawn by six white horses with a venerable gentleman bowing right and left to the crowd.”
Harriet Collamer Johnson
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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.