The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-19

became a major general in the army
of the United States, having rendered
his services as volunteer without
pension or allowance, Before the con-
stitution was adopted Lafayette had
been by legislative act declared cit
izen OF Virginia, the highest honor a
free state can pay to any man; and
upon his death by order of the presi'
dent Of the United States the same hon.
ors were rendered by the nation as had
been observed on the death of Wash
ington His love for our state was
touchingly shown when he named a
daughter Virginia. And I am proud to
relate that when offered his choice of
commands in the continental army he
selected division, composed entirely
Of Virginians 1t was he, at tho head
who drove CORVALLIS into the unten-
able position at Yorktown and held him
there until the coming of Washington
and Rochambeau by land, and of de
Grasse and st. Simon by sea, Corn
wallis bad said of him, 'The boy cannot
escape me-; but it was due to the
splendid strategy of the boy that the
entire British army on the glorious DC"
tobcr day in 1871 was forced to march
out in humble submission between the
lines of French and Americans and
laid down its arms.'
Fame of the Artist.
Mr.. Mann related how Frenchman
had been chosen to perpetuate the
form of the illustrious Washington in
imperishable marble.
"The war drums Of the revolution
had hardly ceased to sound before the
statue to Washington he said. "De-
string to honor the greatest Of her sons,
she knew when she enshrined in the
place of highest honor in her capitol,
that splendid figure OF man, that she
was handing down to generations then
aud now unborn an inspiration that
would rebound always to the good OF
the commonwealth.
State Senators Don P Halsey and
G.. w. King of Virginia also made adj
dresses on behalf of the state of Vir-
ginia,
ambassador Jusserand, in the alb
sence Of the French minister of foreign
affairs, M. Pichop, accepted the statue
on behalf of the French government,
He declared that the friendship Of Cen
eral Washington and Of the American
people constituted one Of the glories of
France. 1T was, therefore, singularly
appropriate that this statue, the "third
erected on French soil, by our ancient
allies. should be placed in the palace
consecrated TO all our glories.''
He pointed out that here General
Washington would be surrounded by his
French companions in arms, the Mar
quis de Lafayette, Connt Rochambeau
and Admirals d 'Estaing. De Grasse and
Suffern. in the very building where the
treaty of peace between Great Britain
and the United States was signed in
1888.
In conclusion he referred to the
Franco. American friendship, unbroken
during the existence of the American
republic and the work of time which
| had transf formed into friends of both
| France and America the foes of 1888
| AT the request of the state of Vir
ginia list of the American officers
and soldiers who fought in the revolu
tion was sealed lin the pedestal of the
statue, the Marquis de Segurn, whose
ancestors fought with the American wal
during the revolution, performing the
ceremony. ambassador and Mrs Ba
con will give dinner tonight in honor
of Colonel Mann and his colleagues anG
| their wives. President Fallieres will
entertain them at dinner at Rambouil
let August %,