LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de [Toast 23] Document autographe signé New York, 4 juillet 1825 14 lignes
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TOAST PRONONCÉ À NEW YORK LE 4 JUILLET 1825. EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE. TOAST IN NEW YORK ON 4th JULY, 1825. LAFAYETTE’S COPY “Gal Lafayette rose and expressed his respectful and affectionate sense of the honor conferred upon him by the individual toast to an old American soldier on the great anniversary day, of American and, he expected, of European and universal freedom, that new common state freedom founded on the sovereignty of the people, the rights of men, and self government. He afford the following sentiment : National independence and republican freedom : to what it can produce, this city of New York and the grand western canal may assure. L.F.’s volunteer toast. The Republics of South America and Mexico and Greece" “At Whitehall we were told of the boast of the English general, and we now found ourselves on the field of battle which humbled his pride ; we should have been exceedingly pleased to visit this theatre of one of the most-glorious events of the Revolution ; but the night was too far advanced (^) and some hours afterwards the sun of the Fourth of July rose radiantly to illuminate the 49th anniversary of the declaration of independence (^) The sermon, the subject of which was the solemnity of the day, was followed by the reading of the declaration of independence, which was listened to with profound attention" (Levasseur, Lafayette in America, II, p. 215)
