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LAFAYETTE
, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de
[Toast 30] Document autographe signé
Leesburg, 26 août 1825
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TOAST PRONONCÉ À LEESBURG ; ON BOIT AU GÉNÉRAL BOLIVAR. EXEMPLAIRE
DE LAFAYETTE.
TOAST IN LEESBURG TO GENERAL BOLIVAR. LAFAYETTE’S COPY
“Toast.
Gal Lafayette expressed his acknowledgements for the favor he was gratified to share with
friends, and gave the following toast :
The county of Loudoun and the town of Leesburg. May the republican blessings of independence,
freedom and equal rights be as progressive and everlasting among them as a providential
message from their citizen colonel Monroe has proved serviceable to the sister republics of the
American hemisphere and impassive upon the anti republican concils of European aristocraty
and despotism.
Volunteer from Gal Lafayette :
General Bolivar who has felt, true patriotism and understood true glory”
“We passed three days in their company, and then the inhabitants of Leesburg, a
small adjacent village, came in company with the Loudon county militia, to invite the
presence of the nation’s guest at an entertainment prepared for him. The president, ex-
president, and chief justice of the United States, accompanied him, and received their
share of popular attention ; but it was easy to perceive that this homage was inspired
by the veneration of their virtues, rather than by any titles which they possessed. After
the Leesburg and Loudon county festivals we took leave of M. Monroe to return to
Washington” (Levasseur,
Lafayette in America
, II, p. 244).
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