[LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de]. Lettre signée par six membres du Sénat (Samuel Smith, Robert Y. Hayne et Dominique Bouligny) et de la Chambre des Représentants (W.S. Archer, Stephen Van Rensselaer et Philip S. Markley) [Washington],...
Estimation :
4000 / 6000
Adjudication :
Invendu
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1er janvier 1825 2 pp. in-4
EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE. EN HOMMAGE AUX SERVICES RENDUS ET AUX ENGAGEMENTS FINANCIERS PRIS PAR LE JEUNE OFFICIER POUR LA CAUSE DE L’INDÉPENDANCE AMÉRICAINE, LES DEUX CHAMBRES LUI ANNONCENT QU’IL RECEVRA DES GRATIFICATIONS. LAFAYETTE’S COPY. AS A TRIBUTE TO THE SERVICES RENDERED AND THE FINANCIAL COMMITMENTS MADE BY THE YOUNG OFFICER IN THE CAUSE OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, BOTH CHAMBERS TELL HIM THAT HE WILL BE AWARDED SOME FINANCIAL REWARDS. “THE CONFIDENCE AS WELL AS REQUEST OF THE TWO HOUSES OF CONGRESS" “the two Houses of Congress, aware of the large pecuniary as well as other sacrifices which your long and arduous devotion to the cause of freedom has cost you, have deemed it their privilege to reimburse a portion of them, as having been incurred in part on account of the United States. The principles which have marked your character will not permit you to oppose any objection to the discharge of so much of the national obligation to you. We are directed to express to you the confidence as well as request of the two Houses of Congress, that you will by an acquiescence with their wishes in this respect, add another to the many and signal proofs you have afforded of your esteem for a people whose esteem for you can never cease, until they have ceased to prize the liberty they enjoy, and to venerate the virtues by which it was acquired" This is the letter making the formal announcement to Lafayette that a bill was to be submitted to Congress that he be granted $200,000 with 24,000 acres in Tallahassee, Florida : “Mr Smith, the chairman, presented him the act, and observed that the Congress of the United States, fully appreciating the great sacrifices made by the General in the cause of American Independence, had taken that opportunity of repaying a part of the vast debt owed to him by the country. General Lafayette was greatly embarrassed on hearing this munificence of Congress towards him. He was at first tempted to refuse, as he thought the proofs of affection and popular gratitude which he has received from the moment of his arrival in the United States, were a sufficient recompense for all his services, and he had never desired any other. But he nevertheless felt, from the manner in which this offer was made, that he could not refuse it without offending the American nation, through its representatives (Levasseur, Lafayette in America, ii, p. 19). RÉFÉRENCE : texte de cette lettre publié par Klamkin, Return of Lafayette, p. 111
EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE. EN HOMMAGE AUX SERVICES RENDUS ET AUX ENGAGEMENTS FINANCIERS PRIS PAR LE JEUNE OFFICIER POUR LA CAUSE DE L’INDÉPENDANCE AMÉRICAINE, LES DEUX CHAMBRES LUI ANNONCENT QU’IL RECEVRA DES GRATIFICATIONS. LAFAYETTE’S COPY. AS A TRIBUTE TO THE SERVICES RENDERED AND THE FINANCIAL COMMITMENTS MADE BY THE YOUNG OFFICER IN THE CAUSE OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, BOTH CHAMBERS TELL HIM THAT HE WILL BE AWARDED SOME FINANCIAL REWARDS. “THE CONFIDENCE AS WELL AS REQUEST OF THE TWO HOUSES OF CONGRESS" “the two Houses of Congress, aware of the large pecuniary as well as other sacrifices which your long and arduous devotion to the cause of freedom has cost you, have deemed it their privilege to reimburse a portion of them, as having been incurred in part on account of the United States. The principles which have marked your character will not permit you to oppose any objection to the discharge of so much of the national obligation to you. We are directed to express to you the confidence as well as request of the two Houses of Congress, that you will by an acquiescence with their wishes in this respect, add another to the many and signal proofs you have afforded of your esteem for a people whose esteem for you can never cease, until they have ceased to prize the liberty they enjoy, and to venerate the virtues by which it was acquired" This is the letter making the formal announcement to Lafayette that a bill was to be submitted to Congress that he be granted $200,000 with 24,000 acres in Tallahassee, Florida : “Mr Smith, the chairman, presented him the act, and observed that the Congress of the United States, fully appreciating the great sacrifices made by the General in the cause of American Independence, had taken that opportunity of repaying a part of the vast debt owed to him by the country. General Lafayette was greatly embarrassed on hearing this munificence of Congress towards him. He was at first tempted to refuse, as he thought the proofs of affection and popular gratitude which he has received from the moment of his arrival in the United States, were a sufficient recompense for all his services, and he had never desired any other. But he nevertheless felt, from the manner in which this offer was made, that he could not refuse it without offending the American nation, through its representatives (Levasseur, Lafayette in America, ii, p. 19). RÉFÉRENCE : texte de cette lettre publié par Klamkin, Return of Lafayette, p. 111
