Lafayette's visit to Germantown, July 20, 1825; an address delivered before the Pennsylvania Genealogical Society, March 1, 1909, the Pennsylvania Historical Society, May 10, 1909, the Site and Relic Society of Germantown, May 20, 1910, the City History Society of Philadelphia, January 11, 1911 . t himself, or be pushed for-ward by his friends, as a companion in of them had served under Lafayette inhis favorite light infantry;—here the pilot whohad brought him into port, or the officer towhom he had given a sword, or the companionof the cold and suffering of Valley Forge,would be rec
Lafayette's visit to Germantown, July 20, 1825; an address delivered before the Pennsylvania Genealogical Society, March 1, 1909, the Pennsylvania Historical Society, May 10, 1909, the Site and Relic Society of Germantown, May 20, 1910, the City History Society of Philadelphia, January 11, 1911 . t himself, or be pushed for-ward by his friends, as a companion in of them had served under Lafayette inhis favorite light infantry;—here the pilot whohad brought him into port, or the officer towhom he had given a sword, or the companionof the cold and suffering of Valley Forge,would be recognized by Lafayette and as oftencalled by name. He was indeed a link joiningthe America of 3,000,000 souls of the strug-gling Colonies to the Union of twenty-four statesand 10,000,000 prosperous people. Every-where he went the leading men of the countrysought him out and welcomed him. In Boston,on his second visit, Daniel Webster, the oratorof the laying of the corner-stone of the BunkerHill Monument on the 50th Anniversary of theBattle, addressed him with all the warmth ofhis affectionate rhetoric. In the halls of Con-gress Henry Clay, speaker of the House,conveyed the nations respect and New England he met and renewed his earlyfriendship with the venerable ex-President,. A. Pi^irison 6, C-c-,BaszorL <=::^€WyZd€^ , (X- CV/C^ TO GERMANTOWN 19 John Adams; and at Monticello he did whathas fallen to the lot of but few men—dinedwith three ex-Presidents, Jefferson, Madisonand Monroe. James Monroe, as President,welcomed him in the White House, and againPresident John Quincy Adams received himthere on the return from his tour. In 1824, Lafayette presented a fine portlyfigure, nearly six feet high, his sixty-seven yearslightly worn, his only apparent infirmity beinga slight limp, popularly attributed to his woundat Brandy wine, but in reality caused by a brokenhip, the result of a fall on the ice in face is said to have been without a wrinkle,and
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