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LAFAYETTE
, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de].
Lettre signé par Abraham Edwards, Président, et attestée par
E. A. Brush, Clerk ; lettre signée par le Général Lewis Cass,
Gouveneur du Michigan (2)
Michigan, Legislative Council, 22 janvier 1825
1 p. in-4, brunies
EXEMPLAIRES DE LAFAYETTE, QUI ARRIVE AU PAYS DES
GRANDS LACS : “YOU LIVE IN THE MIDST OF POSTERITY.
YOU HEAR THE JUDGMENT OF HISTORY UPON YOUR LIFE
AND ACTIONS” (GOUVERNEUR CASS)
Résolution du
Legislative Council of Michigan
, signé par le
Président, transmise à Lafayette : “the Citizens of this Territory,
would be highly gratified, to see him at this ancient Seat of
French Enterprise. They cannot greet his arrival at the Land of
the Lakes, with those imposing marks of respect, which the
great wealth & dense population of the Atlantic Cities have
enabled them to tender”
2. L.s. du Gouverneur Lewis Cass invitant Lafayette “the only Surviving
Major General of the Revolutionary army among us (...) You see in it a
Country, whose increase in strength, wealth & improvement is without
parallel in the records of history, you see it in a happy & enlightened
people, you see it in the Cities, towns, villages & settlements, which are
overspreading the face of the land (...) Providence has blessed you, as
few men have been blessed. You live in the midst of posterity. You hear
the judgment of history upon your life and actions”,
2 pp. in-4, brunies,
Detroit, 14 février 1825
The first
Legislative Council of Michigan
had met at Detroit
less than a year before, on 7 June 1824. Abraham Edwards
(1781-1860), chief signatory of this Resolution, was a surgeon
who moved to Detroit in 1815 and acted as aide to General
Lewis Cass in 1823, the following year being elected President
of the first
Legislative Council
. This Resolution was enclosed
with Governor Lewis Cass’s letter to Lafayette. General Lewis
Cass (1782-1866) was Governor of Michigan and would later
become Secretary of State, Secretary of War and Ambassador
to France. He is perhaps best remembered for leading the
eponymous expedition exploring the western part of his
territory in 1820.
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LAFAYETTE
, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de
[Toast 38] Document autographe
Baltimore, [19 janvier 1825]
3 lignes
TOAST PORTÉ À L’UN DES PREMIERS SOUTIENS
DE LAFAYETTE DANS SON ENGAGEMENT DANS LA
RÉVOLUTION AMÉRICAINE. EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE.
TOAST MADE TOONE OF LAFAYETTE’S FIRST SUPPORTERS
IN HIS INVOLVEMENT IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
LAFAYETTE’S COPY
“The daughter of my friend Carmichael, who first received (in France)
the secret trust of my engagement in the American cause”
William Carmichael (c. 1739–1795) is credited with befriending
the Marquis de Lafayette and recruiting the teenage aristocrat
to the American cause ; when Lafayette traveled to America,
he carried with him a letter of introduction from Carmichael to
George Washington’s aide Tench Tilghman.
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