Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . eneral of the revolution who waspresent at this ceremony. Colonel FrancisK. Huger participated in the patrioticservices—the man who, when a lad, walkedwith Lafayette over his fathers grounds
Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . eneral of the revolution who waspresent at this ceremony. Colonel FrancisK. Huger participated in the patrioticservices—the man who, when a lad, walkedwith Lafayette over his fathers grounds,and who, some thirty years before thisseventeenth of June, risked his life inattempting to aid the escape of Lafayettefrom the castle of Olniutz. The people ofCharlestown not only welcomed Huger,but gave him a seat by the side of Lafay-ette, in the carriage which moved in theprocession, and also one near him at thefestive board. Daniel Webster was theorator for the day ; it was the fiftieth anni-versary of the battle; and everything con-spired to render the day memorable. Asthe procession passed, Lafayette was con-tinually hailed with demonstrations of love GREAT AND MEMORABLE EVENTS. 279 and gratitude. The was sev-eral miles long, and, on arriving at the his-toric spot, the impressive rite of laying thecorner-stone was performed by the grandmaster of the Freemasons, the president of. LAFAYETTES BIRTHPLA<;K. the Monument Association, and GeneralLafajette, in the presence of a vast con-course of people. The assembly thenmoved to a spacious amphitheatre, wherethe oration was pronounced bj- ISIr. Web-ster, before as great a multitude as wasever, perhaps, assembled within the soundof a human voice. There was one place—Kaskaskia, on theroute of Lafayettes tour, at which, thoughno preparations had been made to receivehim, he paused a short time; and here itwas that a most affecting incident oc-curred. Curiosity induced one of his com-panions to go and look at an I
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