| Show LAFAYETTE HIS SERVICES AND HIS TOMB I I r 1 Other young men about tilt court hail I ked perml Mlon In Join the American films and hall refiued latfayau after 4 vlll In I ndon which greatly nrreaaed has JI lre ti 10 to America mad all him preparation In eat MIL Immediately but lowest o a 101o l re lUeiUng the permission of his movers Most Th letter was never answered hut ho remarked that alienee meant Reveal and started landing a nenrge town I Co In June anil going from there lei 1hlladrlphla by horaebarka Journey whiih h was nwia than > Iohlh In making When he ra hill there he was a nut reef v1 rnldlx ly Cal which had Already land mori than tnnuRli o young Runiwaii ailrinlunni but when he uf forest in M r < seas A volunteer and Without With-out tiny i thor rnillMd thai hr woo a man of tlllttnnl stuff and he was Im Inodiremely given high rank In I the army orvlnit ai wo 1 know with iroat bmvcry and honor through the war twndlnic IUJW of his own pnvau fortune In ho allies and helping through the great Influence of his hm lay and rrlmU In peelers the aU of 1ranrr aa a nailnnaM wHhuui which our atrucul Might hinve 10 Im due restfully than It did Afirr him Work wa View hrrr h urat iNick In his own country and after only ontonk of Ol ruin 1110 rourt or Uml liters ta ha make of appaannnra little anything aim 1 be want bark Intel court life onca letter Hut h wait most la MK grant rhmirn t In hla nwn country The dalra for Illwrly ipnada fast anl itrima rapidly and lh French soldiorm nho had lwn l petit to AmvrlcA h lHh1 lu allr UP the rtMilulkm nhlth hal total briwlnir at huiiia Though wr are lmot or lei 1 fa nllrnr with all that Ihe Maniul l > e itnyrttr did wllh us during our great struggle for liberty and leis life and 01 during thai lines Comparatively little la known of his life before l amid a erthai orJ came of a Trench family who had been dlillnguuvhedln French hleiory for mare thin three centuries and when he left France tu join the army In than country be wa not moved by the spirit of a mere advetflurere or the hope for advancement Indeed lie narrtrlred more In I franc than he I could flier hOI > to main In I Arawrica And um harm preldired 10 gave nut only hla services I hut his for luna In thf rauw ot liberty lie wall only 19 yearo old when IK I Mi big bmilllful Young wir the plrjiuroa of tho my K court of Iurui Issit ami sure IwllllFil ndvanritnrnl and against the wldim nf him Bimrnnwnt tn mall I for Amirlm Itr hall I known from III first counter what illlHiullIra hi Mould help to via n During the drradful tcenea which followed fol-lowed tfayritr ram out In his noblest eastern Hot was wllh the retolullonlill In bear light tor llu > riy agMlni them In their depart for carnage He commanded com-manded the military Read hid Ihelr con Manuel and al one lime lurreedrd In letting the country a conelllutlon approximating ap-proximating toward rtpubllcanlm llul Ihe llmr anil became 1 too Moody he could not dead would not countenance counten-ance the wild deell of the J JtroMn and when they nnally barred I the national awmllv to yield < o them he was lorose rllird and a price MI upon his hral I 1t Im MW that he could do no more t help his own country he resolved to I fly in the United Met and with ttin frlrndi ilarled on We Journy Hut before their night was xarcely 1 begun they wrrv tapturrd by the Press Planks who In I turn delivered thn in the Auitrtani Now at htal lime Ihr great rad inrmy ill llhrrly of any kind I wn Ihe eimror ot Autrla For year he had liatrd lra riie for Ihe principle prin-ciple for whlrh leis mime had Mood and now Hut he had him In hid jeower l he I meant a keep klm there I sleet Oe the way of more liberty makinig I If poeMble and lo anger of other ni lanbitleyvitto al cault nih pridain I at niniuii and i treated with the fill horrible neglml eufferlng eo much from cold and hunger that Itn Little K wai feareil 1 thai he might dir Th > question vf his Imprlanment I and rebate I wa broiisht up In the Kn Kllrti parHitment debt In our van con Rreee but the einperur Ito as Inexorable I bill prey ilwuld not to Nalma 1 him and IifAvti remained I A airman for five yoksm After his Illght had wit hid been Im pno > nil In France but she was oon rrlear1 and wllh her two diughieri ItrnJ Unmedurtely t o where her hun bind wai confined Hut when they rtachatt there she was told tha It Ul went 4n ut all they Would not till ul I looked to com out gain Unit Uifny rtl never hnliwnl but volth her talk daughter entered th dwiry prison and did 1 In hr WMcr 1 help and thMr her husband Ill firwiRr u rho three made ll taI lmrl > > rm < nt sown mill mora dradrul bin noiltlnK < oull Im itonr for their relief until the 1 conijurlnK llonaiurtv had brought things w ouch a pave that lie woa In a poaltljn t Ile mind what ha wished from the bough ly inirur waivers lu knnwdally askedl IT the release l of 1 French Ira hald In Auatrla HVMI those the inprrir tried to make saivetal nm dltlora onriirntnu ifayrtii seeking Dial he bo 4n Pont > WAY nalralncd l throURh hU after life but l < ona > arl would Illation to non of I and I fay 11 and lilt family ore MI entirely llul aa ha hid refusidal to aid the Jnmilnn KI he retained the hoaora misiblith Ilomparla miuld hAVat RIVMI him I thvraby inttliw himself cal a noul > by that great conqueror for 11 plains lut hoI or nt he suallooklaidt In livinlar1111111hy a1 1IilnA tho respect anal lava at hi Is own country und word until his death which wait mora thin tie Ihimtpurt with 1 his irradiation 1 oiuld iloHut wI foods lo us la the nioit InlirMlliii classier of his Ufa took laio in 1 I and lIHhl amunl VII to America The invitation wild extended to him tty l > rald nt ilonroe with the uiunl amosAm 41vialro a1 consent at Olangressen and he gladly arreulnl II erttlnx mall frwn Havre on July t Ikll unit nwnd 4kil fourteen iIr through I the Country hkh hJ grown unit pros per4 so mindtrfully Inc the days hin he had been thtr hit III promernme through the country wu like a triumphal march 1 the Prolshlo i l loved l him Mall wore deeply grateful t hIm or him omervickok 41 talent still I stainiletatheric for the Imu hi a nI 1 hardeMp wtrlclt he used since bal HiiMURh and they store only too Rlad In ti b able lo show him Iholr Idol InI vlllJ every one ot the state and when his lityJithth blrlhliy onl 1 WAR celebrate In Ihr White llouai a tliouglt II had baon aa event of RIKII national rel dvlng llur one luollrnt of his visit ot wbleli taw u vi hit ever heard wu i t f mtlrularlr I interrelation on thawing 11 hu rharicier of the man I 1r 1i 1 A hal time there wita In Atntrim UI on select frmal imla ry that 1 i 1 one living ultuatrd In Alniny N Y 0 I I and satellite the itlnric f Mrs Bnmii I I I Wllhrd a woman if r III > nnwit and el I I icallon i 11 fro Willard hail an atlmlnrHon t r Teat twn which amounted almott 11 ixtravaianre And this mirfea wither I her anlint natrlotlem moo her riciel i I the sleet Ito with n porft I ovation reajliMlBg his visit lo the I I I clraol l as one 0 the Kreateat Wants e I lamer I lite II aphookead was 1oQr In talks hn I sor T loath Wile strewn with flower I toll 1 Ir Wlllanl wrote othe tale t iine whlrh wre filiic Mr a tharui of I I Young tadleat I Anal art IU then lf here Come I Allot J our eyes lhI1 tile mail Who rvod hail marm and Ineired his l I breast I 11 1 Fur ua ere yt our life Imint For ua and 10 mir nalrr land I Thy youthful valor itared trw war And now In winter I of thin 66 e I I Thouel coin and Ml thy loved one i I far l j Then deep sand dear thy welepine law l Nor thick thy daughter ta Irum I nee j Columbia dauihteti H onar bend 1 And claim la Mil HIM fulhct friend lluf wamet mir country right alone rd Impolhad togrotle to to as Moo vn No Iwa the love nf human kind I I WAR the Mervd rot e 0 man I wake lieanotctic ubllme Uke mind Hut whfcli away the eternal i I And Wnefactnr of the world lie hnl his blond I for nil mankind r I I Then dell and dear thy welcome beN It be-N r think thy daughter tar from I hoe j Ihuinhiera of human kind we hand 11 lit t J And claim lo call the father friend i I A lite of Jim 1 Wlllanl olilth tell of t i also Incident aayn The Renernl vials I much arrwlnl said At also civil 1 of the I parishes I from ulu1 with tot 1 lams mail I vannot Parkardwoo what I I Voll J a on able I orreelon lout will you madam I 1 re enl mo with three coupled of those Iliim I lo I to Vivo by now aa from you I In my three danihlerar rm lore I i Pattern l of the day add many detail of I the visit of l fayetla to Troy where I i ho rervlvnl an unuually enthu ll > tlo lo > mr but there wa nothing I more I I II1311fill l i Hun the arimr t vrrKren t I 1 KM ft long 1 which I the seminary erect 0 N l I lei a might aml the loarsold of the girls all ilreed in while carrying appropriate f ap-propriate tanner i finch girl wore aleo a illk badgo bearIng I 1 bear-Ing ihoo ward Welcome IafayeltM a and Wlnw a plrlure < if the wrll known I Milliliter the nerilmThwo Nallnna Oupst I Aa may be Imagine themew luidgri pro Ireiaureil by the grli who wore Ii 11 them and aim are till In existence D 1 I in in this city now r and failed i but carefully framed and nn lllutra latest of which to I given below 1afay rile enjoynl and appreciated the visit I and the honor shown him aa he plainly I I plain-ly I bowed by Ihe honors he mid ti I IlIrp I 1llard when aliout ten year 1 1 I letter Palo mad a visit to Trance its Il wu then at rho height of his power but Hill t lie found time In rail to Pool her 6 r I a great Anti unexpected honor from II O totally I a man and 1 through her I I lay him daughter retail llirmrltr al I her xnlre taking her With them to N court fwllval In reception I alih ball 1l i i and 1 enabling tier lo I meet the beet mild 1 II I I tirlghleet people of the day Infayrtt had doie 1 much to secure the ihron lo I I I Ixiul Ihlllliw still M was In high favor at Court and wu unlvrraally lirloved by lh poll I 1 A Iheh woman oplemakfines 01 him 10 I Sam 1 Wlllanl Mid Without him wo I had been esl When his arrival In I 1arl woo known evvrylmxly burst Into totiers 1114 I sympathy In Irhu grief tit I 1 private famllle touched the people Ithlo even mure than lite public Nor J I I liee lie vlalteit I after three data I I h rII of OH thoueand who I were niindil and 1 the many famine i I ne or the Main I Thl I wall In loans and It was well for Alre Wlllant fiat obe mid her Mill 1 when sho did for the great man had I not much rongrr In live In 1bruarr of 1134 he was taken I rlouly r wllh a dlaeaie of the kidney I I I kid-ney and though Ilia loll recivcre1 I lhl I Ion the 51 h of May he was taken worn again and grew gradually weaker until un-til Ihe Slat when he died ThMUgh I roinllnl I I O krep tn film room nil I I thrntuh lain Illnrx Lafayett remained iherrful liked tn talk with much frlrnrl I Ian I I-an wt allowed lo ire him and read If 0 11 nil Ibli Journal unit pamphtt nf the I day I note or dictated letters and we 1 mh near Intsorpotedl In the affairs of It film ounlry and lite friends than he wake I I it I A t In his own 1 11 always thought and iriki a great I slain I r America and the Amrrl rate IaNl and wan jrlved al anything I I e I any-thing that want wrong with the l country whlrh he considered tile I 1 huh flat love I he fell for I and ilia I aid he had given 1 I I T doctor who had attended him I during tile nine hi Irfl a very Inter emi Account of hit lilt days Ito i say Four or five days prityWeas to 1 r7 114111 Lafayitte felt oppreed I and 1 I I bertitut I molaricholy I A Iw inotereents Isotope lie breathed him 0 lat loifoyelt j hJII il opencol 11j7 ye and fileal them with a I lk If affeillon on film children who ourroundowIt th lw1 aa If to Mean them I h1 MI the an eternal adieu 110 reenl my hand cnnvulelvely drew In I ilp and lengthened breath whlih waas followed fly a last Plata I 1110 pulse reamed 1 tu twist the general had romsamel 10 pilot 1 film maintenance restaineol 1 I aim cxpreulnnlhat mil peaceful lumber We rnd was thai of a actual I i man who nlianKiii the world without fear or rrmor No ioiirr had lav i r4yettelis death laen mad pastille than I I the > Puma expreeelnni of grief ttrre everywhere mnnlfeeled All the did I 1 I I llngillhed rnldent In Inrl as well I I no lh very > mret of the rlllien eastern prenml at laid funeral In limit number I I num-ber I llvrr man w1he tti approach the mortal remain of the general and la touch at least his shroud ai a tail ii taken of respect and regret Tin tomb of Idfayetle which II our I rounded by an Iron ralllnir In I but little hlghrr than the ground And lit I com I poer of two large black marble tab I I 11m illuhtly Inclined and forming n I very oblique taught Upon thin angle I IN a little crow ta lateral bram he of which extend on Wall Idea of the monument that cover the remains of both husband and wife Ito with a root Ilrhlnd the wall next Ito I-to i Tjifajettea tomb are cprcca anal Pont jugular The tomb ot Lafayette unotlenta I thesis Ilk those of his friends Walsh trillion nnd Tranklln Is I dally ttiltcd by I I any who honor hi memoryby ttrong I ers whn had known him and by those I mho ngrct that they were deprived of I that happiness 9 |
