Lafayette In Massachusetts In 1824 – August 31 Lynn
Although your present appearance among us, like the transit of a brilliant and beneficent planet, commissioned to proclaim good will to man, in its rapid career among innumerable worlds, is short and fleeting, the emanations of the bright and joyous light which is shed around you will continue with us to guide our steps, and cheer our hearts to the latest moment of our existence.
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.
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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.