Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-06-23
From the Roston Patriot.

Gen. La FAYErrE, with his usual
punctuality and efficiency, reached the
Hon. Mr.. LOWS, in this city, on
Wednesday afternoon, at about o.
clock, and after resting very short
time, waited on His Excellency the
Governor, the Mayor, and the Presi-
dent of the Bunker Hill Monument AS
ISOLATION. In the evening visited some
private friends and received commit
tee Of the Hon. Legislature, inviting
him to meet the State Authorities the
following morning.
The ceremony was highly imposing.
At the hour appointed the Senate came
into the Chamber of the House of Re-
representatives., and soon alter his Ex-
cellency the Governor and the Coun-
Gil Gen. La Fayette was then intro
duced by the Joint Committee of Ar
engagements, and received by the Gov
ernor with the following appropriate
and eloquent congratulatory address:
"Gen. La FAYETTE: The immediate
representatives of the people of Massa
chusetts, in the Executive and Legis-
lative Departments cfthe Government,
have assembled on this occasion to Of
fer you their cordial congratulations
OH your return in health and safety to
the capital of this Commonwealth, and
in the name Of their constituents, to
repeat to you the assurances OF res
pectful and aficctionate interest with
which they shall ever regard your pre-
sence among them.
| Your arrival in the country, on this
happy visit to your American brethren,
was greeted by them with express
sions of the liveliest satisfaction and
iov; YOUR own observation since will
bear faithful witness how true were
their hearts to the language Of saluta-
ton with which they first welcomed
| you.
The population which has crowded
your pathway, the prosperity which
has smiled along your progress, in
your tour through the Union, are but
the fruits of events, in which you large
ly and gloriously participated. The
remembrance of your early sacrifices in
the cause Of this country, has excited
the deepest sense of public obligation,
and the breasts of millions Of freemen
will never cease to swell with gratitude
in the recognition of your services,
most generously and effectually render
ed to an oppressed and suffering peo-
pie. A nation, just to itself, cannot be
Indifferent to the fame Of its Be7efac-
tors, and while Liberty is dear to the
enjoyment of Americans, the names OF
those who fought in its defence, will
be associated with every memorial oil
the scenes through which it became
triumphant!
! In offering to ysou, Geheral, the con-
/ CALCULATIONS of the government, upon
your present visit, have the highest
personal qualification, in further exc
cutting the pleasure Of the Legislature,
by rendering to you "the hospitalities
of the Commonwealth" during its con-
tinuance."
To this the general made the follow
ing reply, in that style of simple and
unaffected eloquence for which he is so
remarkable:
"Sir: The honor conferred upon me
by the immediate representatives OF
the State of Massachusetts,, in the legis-
lative and executive branches, at the
same time it fills my heart with the
most lively and the deepest sentiments
Of gratitude, recalls to my mind recol-
lections equally grateful and endearing,
and while am SO kindly welcomed by
your excellency in this splendid State
House, | remember the remote times
when similar favors have been received
on the floor of Faneuil-hall, the conse-
Grated cradle of American, and fond
ly hope, of universal liberty.
In the long and happy series of vi
sits through the several parts OF the
Union, to which you have been pleas
ed to aIlude, Bunker's Hill has ever
been my polar star, and now rejoice
to be arrived in time to join on the
grand half secular jubilee, with my
companions in arms, as being together
the representatives of the early and
mistaken devotion of our revolutionary
army, of the patriotic wishes Of such
as are still on this land, of the dying
prayers of those who are no more
And permit me here, sir, most deeply
to mourn the recent loss of my two
friends, your respected predecessors,
who had so heartily joined in the late
welcome | have had the happiness, al
ter long absence, to receive from the
people Of this state, and this beloved
city Of Boston, which | have never en-
tered without feeling the warmest emo
tons of affection and gratitude
While have had continually to adj
mire the rapid wonders of creation and