The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-12-20

was born In 1916, eldest son of
uleorge Washington Lafayette, nam
Ga by his grandfather for his Illus,
lFlons eompanion-inarms. His
alher was u soldier, entering tho
French army in 1895, and rs aide
10 General Grouehy making the
campaigns Of Austria, Prussia and
Poland, lle was elected 10 the
chamber Of deputies 10 1929 and
again 10 1927 by tho voters Of the
constituency for which his son now
sits In tho national assembly, This
department no continued 10 repre-,
sent I'LL lsis, lilo was man Of
equal courage, equal probIty, bat
not equal talents with tho old gen
eral whose carly career forms u part
Of our history, One Of tho most
honorable things ever done by our
government was vote In 1894 OF
100000 in recompense Of his sor-
vices, Before tho death of hla
father the subject of the present
sketch had already entered public
liic, Educated partly NJ tho Poly,
technic school, which no entered In
1888, he finished his studies ut Metz,
and In 1885 no received his commits
sion as IN officer In tho artillery.
llc made several campaigns in Al
giors, whore no won tho epaulettes
Of captain and the decoration of
tho legion ofhonor, in 1871, Though
supporter OF hereditary constitu-
tional monarchy, as his father and
grandfather had been before him,
he, like them, was u liberal, He
accordingly associated himself with
the advocates Of reform, and took
place in the reform banquets in the
latter part Of lSi7, After the rev.
olution Of February, lSl9, no was
named by the provisional govern
mcnt commissary general Of tho
republic in the department OF Seine.
et.Marne, whore he was elected rep.
resentative to the constituent
assembly, second on tho list Of nine,
his father, George Washington La
fayette, being first. In tho consti-
tucnt assembly he ordinarily voted
with the third party, which was
republican, and after the election Of
the 10th of December took his seat
on the benches of the opposition to
tho policy of the ElyseO. He was
reelected to the assembly by the
same department, but this time last
on the list. After the coup d'etat
no retired to private life. During
the empire he maintained n discreet
silence. Imperialism was not tho
form of government of his choice,
bnt with the good sense character
isLic of his family, he made no fac
tious opposition. No Frenchman,
indeed, ever had u more rust concept
ton of what is expressed in they
language by the justc milicu th h
the Lafayette family. Equally H.
emies to despotism and to the }ex-
cesses Of freedom, they have always
stood aoof from countenancing
either the one or the other But
when the elections Of February,
1871, called him to place his SER
vices at the call Of his country, he
accepted u nomination from his
fellow, citizens Of the SeineeJ- Marine,
and was elected to the national
assembly the second upon list Of
seven, and by n vote of 34,O32 He
was, upon the meeting OF The assem-
bly, at Bordeaux, enrolled among
the members of the party Of the
republican left; was chosen by his
section as one of it's vice presidents,
and by n vote of ATT out of 499
elected y member of the permanent
parliamentary commission, which
holds its sittings during the recesses
of the assembly. His votes, though
generally, are not always of II
strictly party character. He sup
ported the measure for the prelim.
inaries of peace, the law regulating
the relations of the departments,
the proposition of NJ. Rivet which
conferred executive powers on M.
Theirs during the life Of the assem-
bly, the law relating to customv
house duties, the tax Hpon raw
materials imported, and the return
of the assembly to Paris. He voted
for the government on the question
of the temporal power against the
valuation Of the election OF the
Orleans princes, for the constituent
power OF the assembly, the measure
fixing the official residence OF the
ministry ut Versailles, and the
maintenance of the existing treaties
of commerce Except his vote ON
the ratification of the elections OF
the Orleans princes to the assembly,
none Of the public acts Of VI dc
Lafayette arc open to the charge OF
liberalism.
While all the American people
concur heartily in the expression OF
the national feelings by Minister
Washhurne, one more thought might
have found utterancc After the
lapse of half u century the Ameri-
can people would be glad to wei
come once more u Lafayette upon
American soil a visit to the great
republic could not fail torecall us to
the DAYS whcn his grandfather nidcd
us in the hour Of need, and but for
whose aid independence then at
least would have miscarried 1t
might do something towards setting
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