LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de [Toast 24] Document autographe Paterson [New Jersey], 14 juillet 1825 5 lignes
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TOAST PRONONCÉ À PATERSON. EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE. TOAST IN PATERSON. LAFAYETTE’S COPY “Toast at Paterson. The recollections of Totowa and the enjoyment of Paterson. May this happy, populous, manufacturing town more and more bear interest to the superiority of republican institutions, to the blessings of freedom, equal rights and self government" “According to an account published by the Newark Sentinel on July 19, 1825, it was early on the morning of Thursday, July 14th, 1825, that General Lafayette was escorted by military parade from his lodgings on Broadway, New York City, to the Hoboken ferry, where he crossed the Hudson River into New Jersey. He proceeded to Hackensack, “where he was received with a thousand welcomes by the patriotic citizens of that village." After breakfast, he journeyed to Paterson, passing Zabriskie’s Mills (Arcola), Wagaraw and the Goffle. Reaching Paterson by noon, he was “received with all the congratulations that could arise from the hearts of freemen." After dining at James McNally’s Hotel on Main Street, he departed for Morristown, passing through Totowa Bridge and Godwin’s Tavern (known as the Passaic Hotel in 1825), Little Falls, Parsippany and Whippany. He reached Morristown at about 6 o’clock in the evening" (Levasseur, Lafayette in America, II, p. 220). “The war also brought the Continental army itself to camp on the Totowa Hills above the wondrous Falls and allowed General Washington to inspect the area. It was during a lull in the fighting that Washington and his staff, Generals Wayne, Knox and the Marquis de Lafayette, decided to enjoy a picnic lunch at the foot of the majestic Totowa Falls" (Marcia Dente, Paterson great falls, Charleston, 2012, p. 22)
