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LAFAYETTE
, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de
[Toast 19] Document autographe signé
[Concord], New Hampshire, fin juin 1825
17 lignes
TOAST PORTÉ AUX HABITANTS DU NEW HAMPSHIRE
ET À LA MÉMOIRE DE LEURS PÈRES. EXEMPLAIRE DE
LAFAYETTE.
TOAST MADE TO THE INHABITANTS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE,
IN THE MEMORY OF THEIR FATHERS. LAFAYETTE’S COPY
“Gal Lafayette toast.
Gal Lafayette rose and expressed his affectionate acknoledgments for
the so very kind welcome he had received today from the people of
New Hampshire and this seat of government, particularly for the toast
that has just been given and for the pleasure he felt to be now on the
social talk with the representations of the states in every branch, with
his numerous beloved Revolutionary companions in arms and other
respected citizens, to the whole of them he begged leave to propose
the following sentiments :
New Hampshire, its representatives, in every branch, and this seat
of government, may they for ever enjoy all the blessings of civil and
religious liberty which their high minded ancestors came to seek on a
distant land and which their more immediate fathers have insured on
the broader basis of national sovereignty and the rights of men.
Gal Lafayette being called upon for a volunteer toast expressed the
gratification he had felt in hearing a late toast to the memory of the
departed New Hampshire Revolutionay heroes, among whom three
names had been mentioned of his personal friends, he begged
mention an additional tribute of particular effection to the memory of
light infantry poor and of Yorktown Scammel”
Alexander Scammell (1747-1781) was the highest ranking
American officer killed during the Siege of Yorktown.
“The general was led into another room in the Capitol, where
General Pierce was in attendance, and who presented to him
a great number of his old fellow soldiers, who notwithstanding
age and fatigue, had not hesitated to leave their distant fire-
sides to shake hands and recall with him for a moment, scenes
long passed” (Levasseur,
Lafayette in America
, II, p. 209).
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