Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1919-01-22


landed proprietor in the county. The
inns are very different from those in
Europe; the host and hostess sit at
the table with you and do the honors
of comfortable meal; and when you
depart you pay without being obliged
to beat them down. If you dislike 60
ing to inns you may always find
country houses in which you will be
received, as a good American, with
the same attention that you might ex-
pect in a friends house in Europe.
From the agreeable life l lead in
this country, from the sympathy
which makes me feel as much at ease
with the inhabitants as if I had
known them for twenty years, the
similarity between their manner of
thinking and my own, my love for
glory and for liberty, you may imag-
inc l am very happy: but you are not
with me, my dearest love.
Embrace most tenderly my Hen
riette: may l add, our children? The
father of these poor children is a
wanderer, but he is, nevertheless, a
good husband also, for he loves his
wife most tenderly. Adieu, then, my
dearest love.
The night is far advanced, the heat
intense, and l am devoured by mos
quitoes; but the best countries, as
you perceive, have their inconve-
niences."
Lafayette, after trip of nine
hundred miles, first in carriages, then
by mishaps on horse back,and as he
wrote Madame Lafayette, he expect
ed to finally arrive on foot, he reach
ed Washington where he offered in
person to Congress. 1t was here he
met George Washington, and formed
the tie that united two friends whose
condolences were to be cemented by
the strongest interests. This became
an immortal friendship in the trying
years that followed, a source of SOL
ace to both.
The capture of Burgoyne's splen-
did army in the North raised the
courage and the credit in the country
and the news borne across the ocean
cemented the French Alliance, with
out which, American independence
would have been impossible. The
French people, warm hearted and
generous, captivated by Franklin,
were unbounded in their sympathy,
while the large loans granted by the
French government, when they them
selves, hardly knew where to turn
for court expenses, were the very
sinews of war to our lighting CAUSE
At Valley Forge, Washlngton's
wretched army lay starving ana
freezing, while only twenty two miles
away the British soldiers reveled IN
Injury Lafayette here shared theil
nrivations. He begged Of Washington
the privilege of returning to France
to obtain aid for it was indeed a time
to trv mems souls. He urged the I'M
mediate sending of $4,000 troop
and the necessary fleet. In April lls'
he returned to America announelni
the success of his mission. The arr
val of the French fleet was a sourc
of great JOY to Lafayette. 1t repre-
sented before the world, the alilanc
of the country of his birth and tina
of his adoption.
He was thorough and SINGER
American in our struggle for llbert:
and his heart warmed with FrencI
n mans pride in the magnifcence
: his country's aid when victory no o
: cred like protecting anger over u
American Banner. Congress- al"a
+ ready to do honor to his name' gran
/ ed him an indefinite furlough ana e
'S tended their thanks for his zeai al
services. 1t was ordered that 1he l.
e. gate Alliance be held to carry him
n France. Lafayette had left Franc
ST less than two years before agar
the wishes of King and country
IL now returned an honored hero.
Do we owe France dept! les
~ thousand times. The debt to france
more than we can ever pay oeca'
~ ~ it is the price of our nations e&'
' :. ence But we can do our best 10
d at least fraction of the debt wh
y. w. made US free, and it is peculiarly
". ting that we have the. God given
~ -, portunity now to give our Dest' /
+bo Fra0cp OF Lar aye