The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-27

Haste not! rest notl calmly wait,
Meekly bears the storms of fate ,
Duty be thy polar guide .rr
e Do the right, whate'er betlde!
nj Haste not-rest not--confiicts past,
sa God shall crown thy work at last
From Col Benton's Thirty years in, the Senate.
,f LAST VISIT OF LAFAYETTE.
M In TIE summer of the year 1924, Gen.
LAFAYETTE, accompanied by his son, Mr..
George Washington Lafayette, and under
an invitation from the Picsid,nt, revisit
ed the United States, after a lapse of for
y.years. He was received withunboun-
ded honor, affection, and gratitu le,by the
American people. TO the survivors of
the Revolution, it was the rturn OF a
brother; to the new generation, born since
that time, it was the apparition of a -isto-
rical character, familiar from the cradle;
combining all the titles 10 love, admra-
ton, gratitude, enthusiasm, which could
act upon the heart, and the imagination of
the young and ardent. Hevisited every
State in the Union, doubled in number
since, as the friend and pupil OF Wash
ington, he had split his blood and lavish
ed his fortune for their independence
His progress through the States was a
triumphal procession, such as no Roman
ever led up-a procession not through Il
city but overs continent--followed, not
by captives, in chains Of iron, but by a
nation in the bonds OF affection. To him
it was an unexpected and overpowering
reception. He expected kindness but not
enthusiasm He expected to meet sur
viying friends, not to rouse young gen
Grafton. AS he approached the harbor of
New York he made inquiry of some
young acquaintance to know whether he
could find hack to convey him to some
hotel? Illustrious man, as modest as IL
lustriousl Little did he know, that all
America was on foot to receive him--to
take. possession of him the moment he
touched her soil--to fetch and carry him
to feast and applaud him-to make
him the guest of the cities, states, and the
nation, as long as lie could be detained.
Many were the happy meeting, which he
had had with old comrades, survivors for
near a half a century, of their early hard
ships and dangers; and most grateful to
his heart it was to see them, SO many of
them, exceptions to the maxim which de-
nies to the beginners of revolutions the
good fortune to conclude them, (and of
which maxim his own country had just
been so sad an disqualification, and to
see his own old comrades conclude the
one they began and lived to enjoy its
fruits and honors. Three of his old as
sociates he found expresidents, Adams,
Jefferson and Madison, J. enjoying the re-
spect and.affection of their country, after
having reached its highest honors. An
other, and the last one Time would admit
to the Presidency, M. Monroe, now in
the Presidential chair, and inviting him
to visit the land of his adoption. Many
associates seen in the two Houses of Con-
gress-many in the State Governments,
and many more in all the walks of pri-
vate life, patriarchal sires, respected for
L. Il G.
patriotic service.
1t was a grateful spectacle, and the
more impressive from the calamitous fate
which he had seen attend so many of the
revolutionary patriots of the Old World.
But the enthusiasm of the young genera
ton astonished and excited him, and gave
him new view of himself-and such as
he would be seen in after ages. Before
them, he was in the presence of posteii-
ty; and in their applause and admiration
he saw his own future place is his history
passing down to the latest time as one of
the most perfect and beautiful characters
which one Of the most eventful periods of
the word had produced. Mr. Clay, as
speaker of the House of Representatives,
and the organ of their congratulations to
Lafayette, (when he was received in the
Hall Of the House, very felicitously sez-
ed the idea of his present conformation
with posterity rnd adorned and amplifed
itwith the graces Of oratory. He said:
1'The vain wish has sometimes been in
dulged that Providence would allow the
patriotic, after death, to return to his
country, and to contemplate the mmed-
ate changes which had taken place-to
view the forest felled, the cities built, the
mountains leveled, the canals cut, the
progress OF the arts, the advancement Of
learning, and the increase of population
General, your visit to the United States
is the realization of the consoling object
of that wish hitherto vain You are in
the midst of posterity Everywhere you
must have been struck with the greai
changes, physical and moral, which have
occurred since you left us. Even this city