
Lafayette In New England In 1825 – Boston MA June 19
In the evening he called on Mrs. Ticknor on Common Street. He paid his respect to Madam Humphreys the relict of his friend and companion in arms and spent the rest of the evening with Mrs. Richard Derby in Chestnut Street.

Lafayette In New England – Charlestown MA June 17
“Permit me to give you the following toast: ‘Bunker’s Hill’, and the Holy Resistance to oppression, which had freed the American hemisphere; the anniversary toast at the jubilee of the next half century shall be: Europe Disenthralled.”
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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.