LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de [Toast 8] Document autographe signé Jug Bridge, près de Frederick, [24 décembre 1824] 8 lignes
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TOAST PRONONCÉ .PRÈS DE FREDERICK ,À JUG BRIDGEEXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE. TOAST IN JUG BRIDGE, NEAR FREDERICK. LAFAYETTE’S COPY “after having expressed his thanks, Gal Lafayette gave the following toast : The City and county of Frederick and may their beautiful hills and valleys continue more and more to enjoy the blessings of fertility, industry, republican institutions and domsetic happiness. Being called upon for a volunteer toast he gave : the old Maryland line, and the young Frederick volunteers" “In returning to Washington, we went by Fredericktown, where the general was received with enthusiasm by the population, and by a great number of his former companions in arms (^) At the public banquet given to him by the town, the table was lighted by a candelabra supporting an immense quantity of candles, the base of which was an enormous fragment of a bomb shell used at the siege of Yorktown" (Levasseur, Lafayette in America, II, p. 22)
