. The home of Washington; or, Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical, and pictorial . m upon the throne of France. The National Assembly, by unanimous vote, now electedLafayette commander-in-chief of the National Guard of allFrance, a corps of more than four millions of armed accepted the appointment, but, imitating the example ofWashington, he refused all remuneration for his services, not-withstanding a salary of fifty thousand dollars a year wasvoted. The king approved of his appointment, and the mon-arch, being deserted by his bad advisers, threw himself up
. The home of Washington; or, Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical, and pictorial . m upon the throne of France. The National Assembly, by unanimous vote, now electedLafayette commander-in-chief of the National Guard of allFrance, a corps of more than four millions of armed accepted the appointment, but, imitating the example ofWashington, he refused all remuneration for his services, not-withstanding a salary of fifty thousand dollars a year wasvoted. The king approved of his appointment, and the mon-arch, being deserted by his bad advisers, threw himself uponthe National Assembly. He has hitherto been deceived,Lafayette proclaimed to the people, but he now sees themerit and justice of the popular cause. The peoj^le sliouted Vive le roi! and for a moment the revolution seemed to beat an end. The key of the Bastile was placed in the hands of Lafayette,and in March following he sent it to Thomas Paine, then inLondon, to be forwarded as a present to Washington, togetherwith a neat drawing, in pencil, representing the destruction of AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS. 235. 236 MOUNT YERNON the prison. A copy ol that sketch is given on page $> these Lafayette enclosed a letter to Washington, datedthe lYth of March, in which he gave him a general picture ofaffairs in France, and added: Aftei I have confessed all this, I will tell jon, with tlie samecandor, that we have made an admirable and almost incredibledestruction of all abuses and prejudices; that eveiy thing notdirectly useful to or coming from the peoj)le has been levelled;that in the topographical, moral, and political situation ofFrance, we have made more changes in ten months than themost sanguine patriots could have imagined; that our internaltroubles and anarchy are much exaggerated; and that, uponthe whole, this revolution, in which nothing will be wantingbut energy of government, as it was in America, will im-plant liberty and make it flourish throughout the world;while we m
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