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impact, all four candidates wishing to claim the hero as their
own, with Adams rarely leaving his side. As Carroll notes,
Jackson was a veteran of the Revolution, although he was
to achieve his fame in the War of 1812 (otherwise his and
Lafayette’s backgrounds could not have been more different,
nor did Jackson share Lafayette’s detestation of slavery). He
and Lafayette were already in correspondence (Gottschalk,
Guide
, p.188), and Jackson was one of Lafayette’s escorts at
the dinner held in his honour in Washington on New Year’s
Day. It seems probable therefore that this letter was sent by
Carroll to Washington – over five hundred miles distant from
Murfreesboro – and there delivered to Jackson for him in his
turn to deliver to Lafayette, especially as its enclosure is dated
7 January. Seemingly unaware that Lafayette already knew
Jackson (which bears out our hypothesis that Jackson was
not with him when he composed the letter), Carroll writes :
“I have now the pleasure of inclosing an additional copy of those papers
with a duplicate of my letter of that date which will be presented to you
by Major General Andrew Jackson. I cannot withhold the expression
of my Satisfaction in having the opportunity of presenting the grateful
feelings of Tennessee to you through one who shared with you in the
toils of the Revolution : who contributed so largely in the late war with
Great Britain to maintain those rights for which you both bled and who
now fills so conspicuous a place in the public esteem”.
When Jackson was eventually able to achieve his ambition in
1829, he was to be the last President to be a veteran of the
Revolution.
800 / 1 200
€
208
[
LAFAYETTE
, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de].
Copie d’une décision de la Grande Chambre maçonnique du
Maine
Portland, 13 janvier 1825
1 p. in-4
EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE : NEUF FRÈRES DE LA
GRANDE LOGE DU MAINE DÉSIGNÉS POUR HONORER
LAFAYETTE ET LOUER “HIS GREAT AND DISTINGUISHED
SERVICES IN THE CAUSE OF HUMANITY”
Promulgation offcielle adressée à Lafayette et passée à l’
Annual
Communication of the Grand Lodge of Maine
, désignant cinq frères
destinés à présenter une adresse à Lafayette : “expressive of the high
sense entertained by this Grand Lodge of his great and distinguished
Services in the cause of humanity”, certifiée par William Lord, General
Secretary
Lafayette was received by the
Freemasons of Portland
(Maine)
during the course of his rapid traversal of New Hampshire, on
25 May 1825 : “From the senate chamber the general went to
the house of Mr Daniel Cobb, which had been prepared for him.
He was there waited upon by a great number of deputations,
who offered him the greetings of the neighbouring towns and
villages. The grand officers of the masonic lodge of Portland
wre also there (Levasseur,
Lafayette in America
, II, p. 211).
800 / 1 200
€
209
[
LAFAYETTE
, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de].
Copie manuscrite de la main de Levasseur
Washington, 16 janvier 1825
2 pp. in-4
EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE : COPIE DE SA RÉPONSE À
JOHN ANDREW SHULZ, 6e GOUVERNEUR DE L’ÉTAT DE
PENNSYLVANIE, REMERCIANT DE SON “HONOURABLE
AND GRATIFYING INVITATION FROM THE LEGISLATION OF
PENNSYLVANIA”
Lafayette remercie “the honourable and gratifying invitation from the
legislation of Pennsylvania” et souligne l’incertitude de son itinéraire.
De la main d’Auguste Levasseur
For Shulze’s invitation to Lafayette of 29 December 1824, see
above. No letter by Lafayette to Shulze of this date is known to
Gottschalk’s
Guide
.
400 / 600
€
210
[
LAFAYETTE
, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de].
Document signé par A. Nichols, Secretary of State
Portland, 28 janvier 1825
8 pp. in-4, cousues sous forme de livret avec titre sur la première page,
bruni et taché, écriture pâlie, attesté et signé à la fin, ruban bleu
EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE : LES COMPLIMENTS DU
MAINE AU “CHAMPION OF ORDER, OF FREE GOVERNMENT,
OF RATIONAL LIBERTY”
Résolutions officielles de l’État du Maine concernant Lafayette, datées
du 21 et du 27 janvier 1825, et signées le 28 janvier par Nichols, le
saluant comme le “champion of order, of free government, of rational
liberty” ; et l’invitant dans le Maine :
“witnessing in his actions, all that was fabled of the heroic ages, it might
have been supposed that he was actuated by the spirit of chivalry, had
not the whole of his after life afforded unequivocal testimony that love
of liberty was, in him a deep rooted principle, and not the impulse of
romantic feeling”
600 / 1 200
€