. The home of Washington; or, Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical, and pictorial . for Mount Yemon,a private citizen, accompanied by Mi-s. Washington, hergrand-daughter, Eleanor Parke Custis, and George Washing-ton Lafayette, son of the marquis, who was then an exile fromFrance, and in prison. Young Lafayette was then betweenseventeen and eighteen years of age, and was accompanied byhis preceptor, M. Frestel, who composed a part of the familythen on its way to Mount Vernon. Tlie misfortunes of Lafayette, whom Washington loved sodevotedly, and the condition of his intere
. The home of Washington; or, Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical, and pictorial . for Mount Yemon,a private citizen, accompanied by Mi-s. Washington, hergrand-daughter, Eleanor Parke Custis, and George Washing-ton Lafayette, son of the marquis, who was then an exile fromFrance, and in prison. Young Lafayette was then betweenseventeen and eighteen years of age, and was accompanied byhis preceptor, M. Frestel, who composed a part of the familythen on its way to Mount Vernon. Tlie misfortunes of Lafayette, whom Washington loved sodevotedly, and the condition of his interesting family, hadgiven him more painful anxiety, during the latter part of hisadministration, than any other circumstance. Lafayette, as we have seen, was one of the prime leaders inthe revolution in France during its first stages. He was anactive advocate of civil liberty, but conservative in a countrywhere and when representatives and constituents were alikeradical. When the revolution was at its height, he was atthe head of the Constitutionalists^ who advised moderation. 300 MOUNT YERNON /f/7////^.. GEORGE WASHINGTON LAFAYETTE. Because of this, he, of all the leaders, was left almost was forsaken by timid friends, who trembled at the frownsof the Terrorists, and was menaced by his violent politicalenemies. He dared to oppose the factions, of whatever creed,and for this he drew upon his head the anathemas of theJacobins, the emigrants, and the royalists. Even his army,hitherto faithful, had become disaffected toward him, throughthe machinations of his enemies, and nothing remained for himbut to flee. He left his army encamped at Sedan, and, incompany with a few faithful friends, set off for Holland, toseek an asylum there or in the United States. At the first Austrian post he and his friends were at firstdetained, and then made prisoners. Soon afterward they AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS. 301 were sent to the dungeons of Wesel and Magdeburg, andultimately to those of Olmutz,
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