[LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de]. Lettre autographe, sans doute de la main de William Schley Frederick, 27 novembre 1824 5 pp. in-4, avec la suscription au dernier feuillet : “General Lafayette" et la mention de la main de Levasseur :...
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EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE : INVITATION DE LA VILLE DE FREDERICK : “THE YOUNG BUT GALANT STRANGER UNSHEATHED HIS SWORD IN EUROPE, AND HURRIED ACROSS THE ATLANTIC" Promulgation officielle transmise à Lafayette de la résolution prise par les citoyens de la ville et du comté de Frederick, invitant Lafayette : “Where the Spirit of despotism threatened the Land with Chains & Slavery and frowned destruction upon a friendless people, the young but gallant stranger unsheathed his Sword in Europe, and hurried across the Atlantic to our assistance. Nor did he stop here. Oppression at home forbade him to rest : and for Forty years we have only heard of him asserting the rights of mankind. He has at length found leisure to recross the Ocean and is now in the bosom of America. Most of his early Friends and partners in great achievements have been Summon’d to another world... but there are yet a few Soldiers of the Revolution among us. Be it Resolved, That Conl John McPherson, Conl Philemore Griffith, Major John Grahame, Major Benjamin Murdoch, and Mr Lawrence Everhart, be a Committee to wait on general La Fayette at Baltimore or else where, and invite him to Frederick", le texte est sans doute de la main de William Schley, secrétaire du comité The fifth member of the Frederick Committee of Invitation is Lawrence Everhart (17551840), a child of German immigrants who when captured by the British said that he hoped to God there would be another Tarleton defeat, prompting the famous exchange : I am Colonel Tarleton, Sir - and I am Sergeant Everhart. After his release, he served at the siege of Yorktown where he met Lafayette, later becoming a church minister (he being the only one of the committee of veterans here styled 'Mr’ rather than by officer rank). For further correspondence with the citizens of Frederick of 17 November, see below.
EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE : INVITATION DE LA VILLE DE FREDERICK : “THE YOUNG BUT GALANT STRANGER UNSHEATHED HIS SWORD IN EUROPE, AND HURRIED ACROSS THE ATLANTIC" Promulgation officielle transmise à Lafayette de la résolution prise par les citoyens de la ville et du comté de Frederick, invitant Lafayette : “Where the Spirit of despotism threatened the Land with Chains & Slavery and frowned destruction upon a friendless people, the young but gallant stranger unsheathed his Sword in Europe, and hurried across the Atlantic to our assistance. Nor did he stop here. Oppression at home forbade him to rest : and for Forty years we have only heard of him asserting the rights of mankind. He has at length found leisure to recross the Ocean and is now in the bosom of America. Most of his early Friends and partners in great achievements have been Summon’d to another world... but there are yet a few Soldiers of the Revolution among us. Be it Resolved, That Conl John McPherson, Conl Philemore Griffith, Major John Grahame, Major Benjamin Murdoch, and Mr Lawrence Everhart, be a Committee to wait on general La Fayette at Baltimore or else where, and invite him to Frederick", le texte est sans doute de la main de William Schley, secrétaire du comité The fifth member of the Frederick Committee of Invitation is Lawrence Everhart (17551840), a child of German immigrants who when captured by the British said that he hoped to God there would be another Tarleton defeat, prompting the famous exchange : I am Colonel Tarleton, Sir - and I am Sergeant Everhart. After his release, he served at the siege of Yorktown where he met Lafayette, later becoming a church minister (he being the only one of the committee of veterans here styled 'Mr’ rather than by officer rank). For further correspondence with the citizens of Frederick of 17 November, see below.
