LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de [Toast 19] Document autographe signé [Concord], New Hampshire, fin juin 1825 17 lignes
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TOAST PORTÉ AUX HABITANTS DU NEW HAMPSHIRE ET À LA MÉMOIRE DE LEURS PÈRES. EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE. TOAST MADE TO THE INHABITANTS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, IN THE MEMORY OF THEIR FATHERS. LAFAYETTE’S COPY “Gal Lafayette toast. Gal Lafayette rose and expressed his affectionate acknoledgments for the so very kind welcome he had received today from the people of New Hampshire and this seat of government, particularly for the toast that has just been given and for the pleasure he felt to be now on the social talk with the representations of the states in every branch, with his numerous beloved Revolutionary companions in arms and other respected citizens, to the whole of them he begged leave to propose the following sentiments : New Hampshire, its representatives, in every branch, and this seat of government, may they for ever enjoy all the blessings of civil and religious liberty which their high minded ancestors came to seek on a distant land and which their more immediate fathers have insured on the broader basis of national sovereignty and the rights of men. Gal Lafayette being called upon for a volunteer toast expressed the gratification he had felt in hearing a late toast to the memory of the departed New Hampshire Revolutionay heroes, among whom three names had been mentioned of his personal friends, he begged mention an additional tribute of particular effection to the memory of light infantry poor and of Yorktown Scammel" Alexander Scammell (1747-1781) was the highest ranking American officer killed during the Siege of Yorktown. “The general was led into another room in the Capitol, where General Pierce was in attendance, and who presented to him a great number of his old fellow soldiers, who notwithstanding age and fatigue, had not hesitated to leave their distant fire-sides to shake hands and recall with him for a moment, scenes long passed" (Levasseur, Lafayette in America, II, p. 209).
