LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de [Toast 29] Document autographe signé Lancaster, 27 juillet 1825 12 lignes
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TOAST PRONONCÉ À LANCASTER. EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE. TOAST IN LANCASTER. LAFAYETTE’S COPY “Gal Lafayette’s toast after his health was drank. Gal Lafayette rose and after having expressed his acknowledgments, he gave the following toast : The city and county of Lancaster : may a mutual information of the ever increasing republican blessings which they are happy to cherish, and of the despotic and aristocratical oppressions to which their kinsmen in the several parts of Europe still conserve to submit from between both hemispheres a true and efficient Lancasterian school. Gal Lafayette after the regular toasts were drank, offered the following sentiment : The memory of my light infantry friend and companion in arms, the good and gallant general Hand" Joseph Lancaster (1778-1838) was an English Quaker and public education innovator. “I have already, I believe, mentioned the remarkable fact, that at the south, as at the north, and from the east to the west of the United States, we had met with men of different manners and languages, submitting for the general good to the same democratic government (...) Nothing perhaps more strongly confirmed General Lafayette in this opinion, than a view of the city and county of Lancaster, where are found men from all parts of America and Europe, and of almost every diversity of religious faith, yet all attached to the wise and excellent institutions by which they are governed" (Levasseur, Lafayette in America, II, p. 261)
