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Lafayette In New England In 1825 – Woodstock VT June 28
Although one generation and almost a second have passed away, a few patriots of the revolution still survive. Some of these present have marched in defence of their country in obedience to your commands. These all yet live to tell us and their posterity what our liberties cost and how they were attained: nay more, they are living heralds of your disinterested and efficacious exertions to redeem us from colonial bondage and guarantee to us those free institutions which are at once the glory and happiness of our country, and are extending their benign influence through the world.
Lafayette In New England In 1825 – Windsor VT June 28
General, I have the honor to represent, on this interesting occasion, a people plain and hardy, but intelligent and virtuous: industrious cultivators of the earth, but enjoying on their lofty hills and in their lowly valleys, comfort and independence. Sincerely attached to the constitution and government of their country, they will never shrink from any sacrifices necessary to support and defend them
Lafayette In New England – Biddeford ME June 26
This is part of a series on Lafayette's visit to New England - June 13 to June 29 1825. Lafayette attended services led by Reverend Thomas Tracy at the Second Religious...
Lafayette In New England In 1825- Portland ME June 25
Thirty years ago the tyrants of Europe held you in chains in the dungeon of Olmütz; but now you hear the congratulations and receive the hearty thanks of ten millions of freemen. May the imitation of your regard to the sovereignty of the people and the authority of law, as well as of your firmness and zeal, by the youth of different nations, render your history the history of Liberty, and effect this change, that in a few years the Rights of Man, now in many countries fettered, shall hear the shouts of the whole world.
Lafayette In New England – Kennebunk ME June 24
But, General, your adopted Country trembles to trust you in the power of tyrants; would be to Heaven you could tarry among us till the summons comes to call you to the realms of celestial Liberty! God grant that your life may be prolonged to the very verge of sublunary enjoymnent; that those who survive may deposit your remains in the same soil with Washington, Greene, Lincoln, Knox, and the whole radiant galaxy of your compatriots, whose sacred memory, like your own can never perish. This, sir, is the united sentiment of every one who so cordially echoes the universal paen, “Welcome, Lafayette.”
Lafayette In New England – Boston MA June 20
The fervent prayer of each and all of us is, that you, who have achieved so much in this behalf, may long live to enjoy the contemplation of that happiness resulting from the joint efforts of yourself and our fathers, and that on your return to your native land you may enjoy in the bosom of your family that serenity and peace which so largely contributed to secure for a nation
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.”
Lafayette In New England – Boston MA June 16
In the long and happy series of visits through the several parts of the Union to which you have been pleased to allude, Bunker Hill has ever been my polar star, and I now rejoice to be arrived in time to join, on the grand half-century jubilee, with my companions in arms, as being together the representative of the early and unshaken devotion of our Revolutionary Army
Lafayette In New England In 1825 – Ware MA June 14
The men of the town stood in line and after the general had met the ladies at the tavern he came across the street and shook hands with them. He is described as a man of commanding presence with fine features He was accompanied by his son and after the ceremony was over took his carriage and drove out of town being accompanied as far as the home of Calvin Morse by the townspeople walking Indian file on either side of the carriage the women on one side and the men on the other he bowing to right and left in recognition of the plaudits of the crowd.