Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1832-12-11
GENERAL LAFAYETTE AND THE UNION OF
DIR COUNTRY

gentleman who has just returned from Paris has ia
vored US with the following Of letter General
Lafayette, addressed 10 him under date Of 25,h September
The Enquirer has stated the 4h instant that the letter
recently published from the veterans pen was probably
wnuen 10 Mr. kives This is mistake. 1t is believed
to have been addressed TO Mr. Morse President the
American Academy of Design, who out in the same
packet with MIR. Rives; but the Generals sentiments on
this subject uniform and decided The reader will
md The Joocing extracts TO be of the spirit and
tendency as those lately published. 90 wish Says our
correspondent that in my power add TO Them
numerous extracts which cut out from the French Jour
nails of every variety OF political compile xion all predict.
Ing, with the perfect confidence The faith of the
manifesto OF the South Carolina Delegation and other pro-
ceedngs in that State that dix ans rUnion Ame-
rcainc sera dssoute Sc &c. ndee when left France
had become, in consequence of those wild disorga
nlzng projects, sort OF postuiafe among European states
men, which II was in vain dispute with them, that eve
~ thing was going headong into confusion and anarchy
in this country How much this belief taking the place
Of tho respect and consideration which had been inspired
ior our government by the and energy the pre-
sent administration especially calculated niure
our interests abroad we'll retard the progress of
free principles, need not tell YOU"
EXTRACT Of letter from Gen. Lafayette to citizen
Of The u. S. dated Sept 25th, 1892.
You VIII be returned at an interesting period: not
tbal consider the dissience that has lime ex-
ised and lately violently broke out under so threat
enng point OF view has been represented in Europe
Those federal jcaouses, early up revolutionary
times and since the constitution, after hesitation in
some States has been adopted namely in the case of the
Hartford Convention have had too many opportunities
TO Witness and yet, was observed in INV farewell an
swer to the President in 1926 the good psrio
tsm OF the American people has proved dehniye
and adequate arbifer ia all difficulties. &c. hope it will
be the case (wbont entering the arguments of the
present debae0 when parties shall seriously reflect ON
the eve OF final decision what the effective and ines
tmable advantages of the UnionwIa would be the con-
sequences OF separation, OF continuance in the
warm collision that has unfortunately taken place You
may on your arrival bear witness TO the exultaion that
has been excited this side Of the Atlantic not only
among the enemies OF American grandeur, industry and
prosperity, but also among the advcrsaics Of Republican
institutions. =.
For Coils sake my dear cir, tell friends and fell
iow.cl'izens OF every party particularly those in public
station That IN this critical situation Of European politics.
every speech or that threatens collision separa-
ton, or disorders farther than what is the appendsge Of
republican debate In free country, is eagerly made
argument against the diffusion of popular principles
throughout this European part Of the world and suppos.
ing separation ef The Uion, (thich God orbid tcos
~ J~urify TO dke place, do ,Uai at least, THE
LAST OF THOSE WHO FOUGHT AND BLED IN THE Re-
VoLvrioNARY WAR, HAS BREATHED HIS ULTIMATE