The magazine of American history with notes and queries (1877) (14764409934)

Identifier: magazineofamericv18stev (find matches)

Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries

Year: 1877 (1870s)

Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp

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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes

Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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in a style of the greatest elegance. The dishes were envelopedwith evergreens and scattering flowers, like some fairys enchanted garden ;and when this verdant veil was removed, the scene was changed as sud-denly as at the dissolving of a spell. On inquiry being made by one of thecity delegation after the repast, for the bill of expenses, the reply was thatthere was nothing to pay ; that Connecticut had heard much of the cheap-ness of traveling on the New York canal, and how, out there in the West,a man could ride cheaper than he could walk, and was anxious to give aspecimen of traveling on her own turnpikes. At New Haven, the same writer tells us, Lafayette was received in themorning by Governor Wolcott and the mayor and corporation of the city,with whom, after the presentation ceremonies, he breakfasted. He hadbeen expected the day before, and the city had been brilliantly illuminatedthat evening. Now the disappointed throng were made happy in greeting 464 OUR COUNTRY FIFTY YEARS AGO

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s S OUR COUNTRY FIFTY YEARS AGO 465 him. Immediately after breakfast he proceeded to the green in a car-riage, and he was drawn—will you think it?—by the people. He alsovisited the college, and was everywhere received with the greatest delight.The old and the young, the beautiful and the brave, arrived to be intro-duced, and to have the honor of shaking him by the hand. He was toproceed to Saybrook in the afternoon, on his way to Boston. ... AtProvidence Lafayette alighted in front of the state-house and was re-ceived in a peculiarly interesting manner. The poplar avenue leading tothe building was lined on each side with nearly two hundred misses, arrayedin white, protected by a file of soldiers on each side, and holding in theirhands bunches of flowers which, as the general passed on, they strewed inhis path. It was a gala day in Boston, on the 24th of August, when Lafayettewas received in that renowned city. Among the decorated arches thrownacross her streets the Centinel descri

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