[LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de] Document signé par John Fitz, Town Clerk, et lettre autographe signée du même (2) Boston, 24 août 1824 2 pp. in-4, comprenant la Résolution et sa lettre d’accompagnement avec l’adresse suivante :...
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“For General Lafayette (now at) Boston"
EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE : INVITATION DE NEWBURYPORT FAIT AU “BRAVE SOLDIER, WHO DEVOTED HIS PERSON & HIS FORTUNE TO OUR COUNTRY’S CAUSE" Promulgation officielle de l’invitation, transmise à Lafayette, attestée par le Town Clerk, de la résolution des citoyens de Newburyport, d’accueillir Lafayette aux États-Unis pour fêter “the brave soldier, who devoted his person & fortune to our country’s cause, & their gratitude to the early, zealous & constant Friend of Liberty & of America ; la création d’un comité d’accueil comprenant “the Hon Samuel S. Wilde, Hon William Bartley, Hon Josiah Smith, Hon William B. Banister, Hon Nathan Noyes, William Farie, William Cross, Thomas M. Clark, John Coffin and Caleb Cushing, signed and attested John Fitz, Town Clerk" Lafayette replied on 27 August, the original of which is now on deposit at the Newport Historical Society (Gottschalk, Guide, p.186). The General and his party reached Newburyport on the night of 31 August 1824 : “it was late at night when we arrived at Newburyport. The brilliance of the illuminations, and the fires lighted in appropriate places in the street, the uninterrupted sounds of cannon, bells, the shouts of people, and the sight of armed troops advancing rapidly to the sound of the drum, might have led one to suppose we were entering a town taken by storm, and delivered to the flames, of the words Liberty, Country, Washington, Lafayette, which incessantly fell upon our ears, had not reminded us that we were present at a truly national and popular festival. Although the night was so far advanced, we were obliged to devote a considerable time to the reception of the citizens who pressed forward in crowds to greet him. We stopped at Tracy’s inn, which had been prepared for our reception. General Washington had stayed there in 1789... From the joy which appeared to sparkle in the eyes of our host, it was easy to divine the sentiments that animated him, and how difficult it would be to induce him to part with the furniture which had served Washington and Lafayette" (Levasseur, Lafayette in America, I, pp. 7273).
EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE : INVITATION DE NEWBURYPORT FAIT AU “BRAVE SOLDIER, WHO DEVOTED HIS PERSON & HIS FORTUNE TO OUR COUNTRY’S CAUSE" Promulgation officielle de l’invitation, transmise à Lafayette, attestée par le Town Clerk, de la résolution des citoyens de Newburyport, d’accueillir Lafayette aux États-Unis pour fêter “the brave soldier, who devoted his person & fortune to our country’s cause, & their gratitude to the early, zealous & constant Friend of Liberty & of America ; la création d’un comité d’accueil comprenant “the Hon Samuel S. Wilde, Hon William Bartley, Hon Josiah Smith, Hon William B. Banister, Hon Nathan Noyes, William Farie, William Cross, Thomas M. Clark, John Coffin and Caleb Cushing, signed and attested John Fitz, Town Clerk" Lafayette replied on 27 August, the original of which is now on deposit at the Newport Historical Society (Gottschalk, Guide, p.186). The General and his party reached Newburyport on the night of 31 August 1824 : “it was late at night when we arrived at Newburyport. The brilliance of the illuminations, and the fires lighted in appropriate places in the street, the uninterrupted sounds of cannon, bells, the shouts of people, and the sight of armed troops advancing rapidly to the sound of the drum, might have led one to suppose we were entering a town taken by storm, and delivered to the flames, of the words Liberty, Country, Washington, Lafayette, which incessantly fell upon our ears, had not reminded us that we were present at a truly national and popular festival. Although the night was so far advanced, we were obliged to devote a considerable time to the reception of the citizens who pressed forward in crowds to greet him. We stopped at Tracy’s inn, which had been prepared for our reception. General Washington had stayed there in 1789... From the joy which appeared to sparkle in the eyes of our host, it was easy to divine the sentiments that animated him, and how difficult it would be to induce him to part with the furniture which had served Washington and Lafayette" (Levasseur, Lafayette in America, I, pp. 7273).
