Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical and pictorial . n the throne of France. The National Assembly, by unanimous vote, now electedLafayette commander-in chief of the National Guard of allFrance, a cor]>s of more than four millions of armed accepted the appointment, but, imitating the example ofWashington, he refused all remuneration for his services, not-Avithstanding 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


Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical and pictorial . n the throne of France. The National Assembly, by unanimous vote, now electedLafayette commander-in chief of the National Guard of allFrance, a cor]>s of more than four millions of armed accepted the appointment, but, imitating the example ofWashington, he refused all remuneration for his services, not-Avithstanding 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 people shouted Vive le roi! and for a moment the revolution seemed to beat an end. The key of the Bastile was placed in tlie hands of Lafayette,and in March following he sent it to Thomas Paine, then inLondon, to be forw^aided as a present to Washington, togetherwith a neat drawing, in pencil, representing the destruction of AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS. 991. 222 MOUNT VERNON the prison. A copy of that sketch is given on page these Lafayette enclosed a letter to Washington, datedthe ITth of March, in which he gave him a general pictnre ofaffairs in France, and added : After I have confessed all this, I will tell yon, with the samecandor, that we have made an admirable and almost incredibledestrnction of all abnses and prejndices; that every thing notdirectly nsefnl to or coming from the people 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 wliole, this revolution,- in which nothing will be wantingbut energy of government, as it was in America, will im-plant liberty and make it flonrish throughout the world;while we must wait for a convention, in a fe


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