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LAFAYETTE
, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de
[Toast 10] Document autographe signé
Annapolis, [17 décembre 1824]
7 lignes
AUTRE TOAST PRONONCÉ À ANNAPOLIS. EXEMPLAIRE DE
LAFAYETTE.
ANOTHER TOAST IN ANNAPOLIS. LAFAYETTE’S COPY
“Gal Lafayette’s toast.
The city of Annapolis and may the Metropolis of Maryland more and
more enjoy the advantages of a Revolution in which her statesmen and
warriors have acted so early and so honorable”
RÉFÉRENCE : Levasseur,
Lafayette in America
, II, p. 21
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€
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LAFAYETTE
, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de].
Lettre signée par Robert Y. Hayne, RichardM. Johnson, E.H. Wills,
J. Hamilton, Jr, Stephen Van Rensselaer et Duncan McArthur
Washington City, 25 décembre 1824
1 p., in-4, traces d’humidité, encre pâlie
EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE : INVITATION À DÎNER POUR
LE 1er JANVIER PAR CINQ ÉLUS “DEPUTED BY OUR
COLLEAGUES AND ASSOCIATES OF BOTH HOUSES OF
CONGRESS”. LAFAYETTE DINE AVEC JAMES MONROE
Lettre signée par cinq membres du Congrès et adressée à Lafayette :
“We have been deputed by our Colleagues and Associates of both
Houses of Congress, to solicit the honor of your Company at dinner,
at 5 P.M on the first day of January next, at Williamson’s Hotel. We are
instructed to assure you, that we could not have allowed you to leave
the Seat of Government, without this testimony (however imperfect) of
our warm personal regard”
Among the Congressional signatories are Robert Young Hayne
(1791-1839), Senator for South Carolina and an advocate of
state rights, especially as regards the retention of slavery,
Richard Mentor Johnson (1780 or 81-1850) who represented
Kentucky in both the House and Senate, winning national
fame as supposed killer of the Shawnee leader Tecumseh for
which he was to be selected as Van Buren’s Vice President,
Stephen Van Rensselaer (1764-1839), one of New York’s
richest landowners who, during Lafayette’s visit, cast the
Congressional vote that gave Adams rather than Jackson the
presidency, and Duncan McArthur (1772-1839), Representative
for Ohio. Levasseur records :
“The first of January was fixed upon by the two houses, for a grand
dinner to General Lafayette. The representatives of the people wished
to consecrate American hospitality, by seating the guest of the nation
at a table at which the whole nation could be represented by them. Mr
Gailliard, president pro tempore of the Senate, and Mr Clay, Speaker
of the House of Representatives, presided at the dinner. Mr Gailliard
had General Lafayette on his left, and Mr Monroe the president of
the United States on his right ; who, overlooking on this occasion the
rule he had made of never attending any public dinner, had accepted
the invitation... The hall was decorated with great splendour, and the
guests were animated by a feeling of union, which demonstrated
how completely they considered this ceremony as a family festival”
(
Lafayette in America
, II, pp. 28-29).
1 500 / 2 000
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