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LAFAYETTE
, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de
[Toast 29] Document autographe signé
Lancaster, 27 juillet 1825
12 lignes
TOAST PRONONCÉ À LANCASTER. EXEMPLAIRE DE
LAFAYETTE.
TOAST IN LANCASTER. LAFAYETTE’S COPY
“Gal Lafayette’s toast after his health was drank.
Gal Lafayette rose and after having expressed his acknowledgments,
he gave the following toast :
The city and county of Lancaster : may a mutual information of the ever
increasing republican blessings which they are happy to cherish, and
of the despotic and aristocratical oppressions to which their kinsmen
in the several parts of Europe still conserve to submit from between
both hemispheres a true and efficient Lancasterian school.
Gal Lafayette after the regular toasts were drank, offered the following
sentiment :
The memory of my light infantry friend and companion in arms, the
good and gallant general Hand”
Joseph Lancaster (1778-1838) was an English Quaker and
public education innovator.
“I have already, I believe, mentioned the remarkable fact, that
at the south, as at the north, and from the east to the west of
the United States, we had met with men of different manners
and languages, submitting for the general good to the same
democratic government (...) Nothing perhaps more strongly
confirmed General Lafayette in this opinion, than a view of
the city and county of Lancaster, where are found men from
all parts of America and Europe, and of almost every diversity
of religious faith, yet all attached to the wise and excellent
institutions by which they are governed” (Levasseur,
Lafayette
in America
, II, p. 261)
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LAFAYETTE
, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de
Lettre autographe signée de Abraham Sellers et Joshua
Dryden ; et un autre manuscrit (2)
Baltimore, [29 juillet 1825]
1 p. in-4
EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE. LES TAILLEURS DE
BALTIMORE LUI ADDRESSENT LEUR TÉMOIGNAGE PAR
L’INTERMÉDIAIRE DE JOHN STUART SKINNER
“We have been requested by the tailors of Baltimore to present you
with one of the badges wove by them on the 4
th
of July last on the
occasion of performing the ceremonies of commencing the Baltimore
& Ohio Rail road, for the purpose of being by you forwarded to Genl
Lafayette as a small token”...
avec une APOSTILLE AUTOGRAPHE DE
LAFAYETTE : “answered to be kept”
2. Susanna Warfield, “The following sentiment was delivered to
General Lafayette on his first visit to the city of Baltimore”...,
1 p. in-4,
Baltimore, 19 janvier 1825
In 1824 General Lafayette selected Skinner as agent to
manage the 20,000-acre grant of land that he had received
from Congress.
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