[LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de]. Lettre signé par Abraham Edwards, Président, et attestée par E. A. Brush, Clerk ; lettre signée par le Général Lewis Cass, Gouveneur du Michigan (2) Michigan, Legislative Council, 22 janvier 1825 1 p....
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EXEMPLAIRES DE LAFAYETTE, QUI ARRIVE AU PAYS DES GRANDS LACS : “YOU LIVE IN THE MIDST OF POSTERITY. YOU HEAR THE JUDGMENT OF HISTORY UPON YOUR LIFE AND ACTIONS" (GOUVERNEUR CASS) Résolution du Legislative Council of Michigan, signé par le Président, transmise à Lafayette : “the Citizens of this Territory, would be highly gratified, to see him at this ancient Seat of French Enterprise. They cannot greet his arrival at the Land of the Lakes, with those imposing marks of respect, which the great wealth & dense population of the Atlantic Cities have enabled them to tender" 2. L.s. du Gouverneur Lewis Cass invitant Lafayette “the only Surviving Major General of the Revolutionary army among us (...) You see in it a Country, whose increase in strength, wealth & improvement is without parallel in the records of history, you see it in a happy & enlightened people, you see it in the Cities, towns, villages & settlements, which are overspreading the face of the land (...) Providence has blessed you, as few men have been blessed. You live in the midst of posterity. You hear the judgment of history upon your life and actions", 2 pp. in-4, brunies, Detroit, 14 février 1825 The first Legislative Council of Michigan had met at Detroit less than a year before, on 7 June 1824. Abraham Edwards (1781-1860), chief signatory of this Resolution, was a surgeon who moved to Detroit in 1815 and acted as aide to General Lewis Cass in 1823, the following year being elected President of the first Legislative Council. This Resolution was enclosed with Governor Lewis Cass’s letter to Lafayette. General Lewis Cass (1782-1866) was Governor of Michigan and would later become Secretary of State, Secretary of War and Ambassador to France. He is perhaps best remembered for leading the eponymous expedition exploring the western part of his territory in 1820.
EXEMPLAIRES DE LAFAYETTE, QUI ARRIVE AU PAYS DES GRANDS LACS : “YOU LIVE IN THE MIDST OF POSTERITY. YOU HEAR THE JUDGMENT OF HISTORY UPON YOUR LIFE AND ACTIONS" (GOUVERNEUR CASS) Résolution du Legislative Council of Michigan, signé par le Président, transmise à Lafayette : “the Citizens of this Territory, would be highly gratified, to see him at this ancient Seat of French Enterprise. They cannot greet his arrival at the Land of the Lakes, with those imposing marks of respect, which the great wealth & dense population of the Atlantic Cities have enabled them to tender" 2. L.s. du Gouverneur Lewis Cass invitant Lafayette “the only Surviving Major General of the Revolutionary army among us (...) You see in it a Country, whose increase in strength, wealth & improvement is without parallel in the records of history, you see it in a happy & enlightened people, you see it in the Cities, towns, villages & settlements, which are overspreading the face of the land (...) Providence has blessed you, as few men have been blessed. You live in the midst of posterity. You hear the judgment of history upon your life and actions", 2 pp. in-4, brunies, Detroit, 14 février 1825 The first Legislative Council of Michigan had met at Detroit less than a year before, on 7 June 1824. Abraham Edwards (1781-1860), chief signatory of this Resolution, was a surgeon who moved to Detroit in 1815 and acted as aide to General Lewis Cass in 1823, the following year being elected President of the first Legislative Council. This Resolution was enclosed with Governor Lewis Cass’s letter to Lafayette. General Lewis Cass (1782-1866) was Governor of Michigan and would later become Secretary of State, Secretary of War and Ambassador to France. He is perhaps best remembered for leading the eponymous expedition exploring the western part of his territory in 1820.
