Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-07-21
LAFAYETTE

The papers received this morning from Paris
furnish the answer of Csc. w. LAFAYETTE to
the deputaton of American citizens, who ad-
dressed to him letter of coincidence on account
of the decease of his father, which will be found
below.
They also furnish the reason why Mr. Liv-
ingston, American Minister, did not appear at
the funeral II seems that he was, at the time
of the death of Lafayette, on visit TO Holland
Below is also a correspondence between G.
w. Lafayette and Mr.. Barton, American Charge
dies Affaires, representing the interests of the
United States.
Reply Of George W. Lafayette 10 the American
Comn,ihee.
PARIS, May 90, 1881.
GENTLEMEN-I have received with feelings of
the most respectful gratitude the letter which
YOU did me the honor to address to me the mo-
ment after my family and myself had lost the
venerable and tenderly loved parent whom Hea-
ven had given us. Alter having filled with glo
nv the old age of him who had had the happi-
ness of consecrating to them his earliest years.
the Citizens of the United States are going also
to weep with us over his grave; and these tears
will be for his memory precious reward for
his fidelity to the convictions he brought back
with him from the classic soil of liberty. These
tears will be eagerly caught by his children and
by his grand children; they will give them cour-
age to sustain their misfortune, and struggle to
march with firm and assured step in the path
which he has always followed who knew how
TO merit them.
Gentlemen your sympathy mitigates our af-
Fiction; it sheds q salutary balm on our hearts,
now broken with grief
Receive the homage of our respectful graft
tude. GEORGE w. LAFAYETTE.
Letter lprihen By George w. Lafayette to Mr.
Barton, Charge dAfaires Of the U. States.
PARIS, May 81, 1884.
SIR-He who had obtained from Franklin the
authority of first drawing his sword in the de-
fence of liberty under the American Standard
in 1776, the adopted son. of Washington, the
commander of the American light infantry at
Yorktown; he, whom in 1924 and 1926 an en-
tire nation honored with triumph without ex-
ample in history, my father, General Lafayette,
is no more! Tomorrow, his son, his grand
sons those to whom alliances, blessed by him
SELF have given the right of being his children,
are to conduct him to his last abode.
The French people loved him, and the fune-
raj car which will transport him to the spot
where already reposes the partner of his life,
will be, We confidently expect, surrounded by a
numerous crowd of good citizens.
Permit me, Sir to ask of you, in the name of
my family, the representative Of our second
country, to participate in our grefs, in the
name of that country of which we are in a
manner children. One of the corners Of the
pail which will cover my father is destined for
YOU Sir; and your fellow citizens assembled
around you will find, venture to hope, in the
price we attach to their presence on this mourn
full occasion, the proof of our gratitude for the
veneration for the memory of my father, of
which this morning they have been so good as
to make me the depositary.
Be pleased to accept, Sir, the assurance of
my most distinguished consideration.
GEORGE w. LAFAYETTE.