LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de [Toast 12] Document autographe Washington, Pennsylvania, 25 mai 1825 7 lignes
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TOAST PRONONCÉ À WASHINGTON, PENNSYLVANIE. EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE. TOAST IN WASHINGTON, PENNSYLVANIA. LAFAYETTE’S COPY “After the general’s Health had been drunk he rose and having expressed his aknowlegments, he proposed the following toast : The county and town of Washington : may their prosperity for ever go hand in hand with the glory of the name. Gal Lafayette’s Volunteer toast : the ancient representative from Greene and Washington’s Counties who has proved himself equally eminent in the national Congress, in the cabinet and in the American transatlantic diplomacy" “We entered the state of Pennsylvania by Washington, Brownsville, Uniontown etc. In all this route, the general found the Virginia and Pennsylvania population in the same dispositions as in the preceding year ; that is to say, the people everywhere crowding his way, and conferring upon him the greatest honours. The little town of Washington, the seat of justice for the county of the same name, distinguished itself by the brilliancy of its festivals" (Levasseur, Lafayette in America, II, p. 179)
