Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-09-10

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our country, took his departure from
the Seat Of Government on Wednes-
day, on his return to his native cohn.
try. Our readers are already apprized
of the preparations which had been
made and recommended by the autho-
rites and the people of this District to
evince their respect for this venerated
individual. All business was suspend
ed in the City during the day; the shops
and Banks were closed, and every thing
indicated the deep feeling which perva-
ded the community on this interesting
occasion.
At an early hour, the Corps of Ma
rines, The Volunteer Companies OF the
First Brigade Of the District, and those
of the Alexandria Brigade, were on the
ground designated on the Presidents
Square, where they were joined by Gov.
SPRIGe's and Capt. DuNLoP's troops OF
Cavalry from the State of Maryland; the
whole formed and in waiting 10 take up
the escort.
The Boards of Aldermen ana the
Common Councils Of the three cities OF
the District, headed by their respective
Mayors, entered the Presidents House
about half past eleven O'Clock. The
Marshals Of the day had assembled
there a short time previous. The fare
well addresses Of these several NUM-
cipal Bodies, having been communicate
ed to the General by a messenger, a.
bout 10 O'Clock they were all summoned
to the Hall, and having been arranged
in a circle by the Marshals, the Presi-
dent of the United States appeared be-
fore the entrance which leads TO the
Drawing Room, supported on each
side by the Heads Of Departments and
Officers, Civil and Military: Several
Members of Congress, at present in the
District, and other distinguished citi-
zens, also, formed part Of this group
The company having waited some mi
nutes in silence, a side door was open
ed, and Gen. La FAYETTE entered the
Hall; attended by the Marshal of the
District, and one Of the Sons Of the
President, and presented himself in the
vacant space within the circle, and at a
suitable distance, to receive the ADJ
dress of the President. MIR ADAMS,
then, with much dignity, but with evil
dent emotion, delivered, in a clear, dis
tinc,, and very impressive manner, the
following Address:
GENERAL LAFAYETTE: 1t has beer the good
of many Of my distinguished fellow
during the course of the year now
upon your arrival at their respective
places of abode, to greet you with the well
come ofthe Nation The less pleasing task
now devolves upon me, of bidding you, in the
name of the Nation, Adieu.
1t were no longer seasonable, and would be
to recapitulate the remarkable
incidents of your early life-incidents which
your name, fortunes, and reputa-
lion, in imperishable connection with the indie
pendence and History of the North American
Union.
The part which you'performed at that inn
'ortant junction, was marked with characters
70 peculiar, that, realizing the fsirest fable Of
antiquity, its parallel could scarcely be found
n the authentic records of human history.
You deliberately and perseveringy prefer
ed toll, danger, the endurance of every hard
hip, and the privation Of every comfort, in
Of a holy cause, to inglorious ease,
nd the allurements of rank, ~af1uence, and
lnrestrained youth, at the most splendid and
ascinating Court of Europe.
That this choice was not less wise than
nagnanimous, the sanction ofhalf a century.
nd the CALCULATIONS of un%numbered voices,
unable to express the gratitude Of the
cart with which your visit to this hemisphere
las been welcomed, afford ample demonstra-
When the contest of freedom, to which you
lad repaired as a voluntary champion, had
losed, by the complete triumph other cause
n this country of your adoption, you returned
o fulfil the duties of the philanthropist and
patriot in the land of your nativity. There,
n a consistent and undertaking career Of forty
ears, YOU have maintained, through every
,icissitude of alternate success and disappoint-
nent, the same glorious cause to which the
irst years of your active life had been devo-
ed-the improvement of the moral and poll
ical condition ofman.
Throughout that long succession Of time,
he People Of the United States, for whom,
md with whom, you hadfought the battles of
liberty, have been living in the full possession
IF its fruits, one ofthe happiest among the ia
nily of nations. Spreading in population; en-
in territory; acting and suffering &C
sording to the condition Of their nature; and
laying the foundations Of the greatest, and,
humbly hope, the most beneficent power
that ever regulated the concerns Of man upon
In that lapse Of forty years, the generation
of men with whom you co-oPerated in the