The Arkansas advocate., 1830-12-08


 American; and if to these insulting scenes add their disgraeelul conduct in relation to our just claims on France, it will be found that they are by no means entitled to the sympathy of this people.
 OBSERVER 1.-the reader should think himself sui iiciently familiar with the eventful life of Lafayette not to require a copy oiI his blography-we yet believe pera- al of the short memoir We this day ia4 before him will,i spite of this feeling, nave sufficient attractions to induce q change in the opinion. texiYiag lile impression Of so many important traas- actions and trying scenes in which ge.ir eral Lafayette has borne q part, 1t will ilGdle anew his personal adm.Fauoi. and respect, and his gratitude and ven. eratlon as q lover oi mankind. 1t viii, to the American reader, be a i.siiite4 source of qualification. to find that h. to whom the Republic has been so much indebted, and to whom all hersons have been proudtomanifest their recollection of his generous efforts in their behaii, is, now that time has obliterated the feelings Of national dislike excited b@ those efforts, so estimated ill the lmpar- tiaI judgments of those who cannot l. any wise be swayed by selfish trejutt- ca fsk bestowed on the veteran friend oi ilber- l ty in the sketch we have quoted, are from an English pen; and when to tns language of 2 London .jourHallst, " ( l add the equally warm expressions used ] by the authors of the letters from Far is, and those employed bJ the speakers at the public meetings ill England, as well as the cheers with whieA lis name has been hailed on such occasions, We shall have satisfactory proof that tne e timatlon which stranger might ascrlbe to blind partiality, is in fact only hom= age to worth and virtue, paid rom tne sober dictates of justice and truth. Gen. Lafayette, by the course he has pursued in the recent astonishing meas ures at Paris, has placed the adamanti C keystone of the golden arch of hls fame. Two years before the throne attempted the prostration of the rights of the peo- pie, and thus called forth once more this asserter of the claims of freemen. M. David, a sculptor of Paris, had exc cuted bust of Lafayette, as mark of i the aflectionate regard and admiration felt towards the general by himself and the young Parisians. This testimonial was presented to the congress of the C- nited States, to receive q place in the capitol by the side of a monument of Washington. The letter which accom- panied the gifts expresses so justly the characterof the hero, and so strikingly exhibits those feelings to which, under the most trying circumstances, truth has set it's seal, that we cannot refrain from repeating some of its paragraphs:
 "'The youth of the French nation is tilied with admiration for the virtues of the 5yoata and eld age Of him of whom send you likeness. They envy the glory that Was acquired upon the Amer ican soil, by the side of the immortal Washington, and the defence of your noble rights. They envy that glory which has been acquired on the soil of France, in the midst of the troubles of Paris and Versailles. where, in breastina the storm, he wanted courage as little in the struggles of debate, as he did in eontending with the sword. They en- " that glory which covers the front bleached by age, butstill sparkling with the fire of liberty and Of patriotisln.'' How nobly has the testimony so ele- queniiy expressed since eenvindicated; and how doubly enhanced is thd glorg thus e'apiea, by the splended events in which the youth of France proved the sincerity of these declarations, when sharing with the veteran his last and most iilustrlous actions in the career of honorable fame.
 1 The sentiments manifested in the let ter of N. David so long before the late unexpected crisisare conclusive Of what perhaps needed no such proof, that the combined energy in conflict and moder- |