LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de [Toast 26] Document autographe signé Philadelphie, Mr Rush dinner, 20 juillet 1825 28 lignes
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TOAST PRONONCÉ À PHILADELPHIE. EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE. TOAST IN PHILADELPHIA. LAFAYETTE’S COPY “Gal Lafayette rose and expressed his acknowledgments for the toast that had been drunk in his behalf, and at the same time he attends to the sentiments which the guest of the day has expressed upon the superiority of American civilization over the institutions of every part of both hemispheres. He expressed (^) the happy message of his old fellow and companion in arms, President Monroe, a message which at once was just a stop to the plots of the continental governments against the independence and freedom of South America (^) He gave the following toast : Philadelphia. May the fair city for every conscience to redeem the pledge of her philanthropic name and rejoin (?) the blessings of her republican freedom. Gal L.F. being asked for a volunteer toast gave the memory of William Penn and Benjamin Franklin" (... ) “We were now in the middle of July (...) We shall pause an instant longer in Philadelphia, to visit the Water Works, and attend the celebration festival with which the citizens particularly engaged in these works desired to honour the nation’s guest" (Levasseur, Lafayette in America, II, p. 227)
