American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1824-10-08

The following address, with certain resolutions of the
citizens of Newcastle, Delaware, in honor of General LA
IFAYEfTE, as the distinguished benefactor of our
conry-whose devotion 10 attain its freedom and indie
pendence had been unrvaed and unexampled was de-
hvered presenting him with those resolutions, on
Thursday the 50th ut. in the city of Phladcp hia, by
GEORGE READ, accompanied by JAMES lDDLEtwo of the
members Of the committee Of arrangement, delegated for
the purpose.
"General LA FAYETTE,
Participating il the spontaneous feelings of love and
gratitude OF ten millions Of teemen-he citizens Of New
CASTLE though their committee offer their congratulations
to you your arrival in the United States. II surely will
not be deemed in the aduatory strain of compliment it,
in presenting ourselves your notice. we hail the surv-
vor OF our revolutionary Generals with exutaon and Joy
on his reappearance among after absence OF forty
yeas-whose brow has been encirced with chaplet of
mPershabe renown for noble and disinteresed achieve
mens in the war of revoution-the memorable srug
gle that gave TO nation freedom and independence
which we trust will confer undimnished happiness in
ceedng and remote ages, on our postery, who will hold
IN grateful remembrance the glorious of LA FAYETE
as long as its fruits shall be enjoyed and its blessings be
felt In adyerng to that period Of your life when Young
and manly enthusiasm for liberty, with which you in
spred, elevated you above the ordinary feelings of human
y and devoted to the emancipation of the new world la
Tents and courage of the first order, lost in admra
ton, and are compelled TO believe that forui
tous occurrence, but proyidenta dspensatlon, which
raised up character emlnenty adapted TO the crisis
1t was not TO swell The triumph Of victorious army TO
attract to yourself the use Of success, that you crossed
am Ocean which separated you three thousand miles from
your home but on the contrary to unite your future for
tune with the fate Of people, forming small and distant
dependency OF mighty empire, from which multiplied
and unredessed wrongs had compelled this people to
YER The doubtful and protracted having been at
length brought to successful termination by the yaor
and perseverance of Washington yourself and the com
patriots OF our revolutionary army you returned amid the
audts Of grateful people, 10 France there reap fresh
auies in of difficulty and danger without parallel
in the annals of the world. Your constancy and rmness
weahered the storm. The perfection Of your character
has displayed selfn your attachment 10 well regua ed
system of liberty, equally from the Of des
potlsm and the excess Of anarchy.
May you live long, sir, to enjoy that fame and high dis
ncton winch you have well merted by your personal
sacrifices and the purity and excellence Of those virtues
that the chief ornaments of your public and private
life"
To which General LA FAYETTE returned very fatter-
ing answer, expressive of the high satisfaction he felt and
how much he was grathed with the sentiments ned
in the resolutions conveyed in their impressive language
That the eloquent address which had been delivered,
raught with sentiments of affection and attachment and
recurring in honorable the part he bore in
the revolutionary war, called for his sincere acknow-
Judgments and thanks which he begged them convey
the czcns OF Newcastle and to them that he would
ever entertain grateful remembrance of-and that he
wished them every degree of prosperity which the free
dom and independence they enjoyed entitled them 10
hope for. October 2, 1924.