September 16, 1824
Local Visit
September 16, 1824
Local Visit
Why
Lafayette Endures: Big Moves & Intimate Gestures. A Profound Commitment to Truth.
“All are created equal…”
“Liberté, égalité, fraternité”
TRUTH
“ ”
“…all means all…”
Lewis Hayden intimate GESTURES BIG moves
American & French Revolution Race, Gender, Faith Named Persons
American & French Revolution Race, Gender, Faith Named
Persons
LAFAYETTE LODGE NO. 22 MASONS, AMENIA
LAFAYETTE LODGE No. 18 IOOF,
American Revolution (1775-1782)
French Revolution (1789-1797)
1824 Visit
Diverse Appeal Generations. Race. Gender. Faith.
DCHS COLLECTIONS
JAMES ARMISTEAD
“James gave essential service… 1784 …intelligence from the enemy”
February 5, 1783: “Let us unite in purchasing a small estate…”
February 6, 1786: “I have purchased a plantation in Cayenne and am going to free my Negroes…”
Thomas Clarkson 1827
“Where are my friends the Oneida?”
Henry Cornelius 1825
LOUIS XVI 1789
1792 -1797
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Andrew Jackson
John Quincy Adams
1824
1824 1864
DCHS COLLECTIONS
September 16
SEPT. 16
SEPT. 19
Poughkeepsie
Poughkeepsie
ELITE
Henry Livingston to Lafayette September 16, 1824
“I heard repeatedly the story from my mother’s lips that the gallant Frenchman not only took [her and] each [young girl] by the hand, but even stooped to kiss them as they passed him.”
John Howard Brown, Rhinebeck
September 19, 1916
OUTCAST
Henry Livingston
BLACK
intimate GESTURES
Lewis Hayden
Thomas & Jane Williams
28th US Colored Troops
b. ca. 1827 Union Vale ~ d. 1865 Virginia
Lafayette Williams
INDIGENOUS
Georgia
Creek Nation loses millions of acres Andrew Jackson become military hero 1824
WORKING CLASS
“…an old revolutionary soldier…”
“…bearing the marks of poverty and hardship…”
“…his countenance lighted up, and was evidently inspired with a new glow of life…”
CATHOLICS
“The question whether Lafayette ever gave this warning is the falsely attributed to Lafayette by Samuel Morse “If ever the liberties of the United States are destroyed they will be by Romish Priests.”
Jared Sparks
20TH CENTURY
1915
Victor Chapman
“… at the usual 4th of July ceremony at Lafayette’s grave…Chapman’s name was linked with that of Lafayette and the bond of good feeling between the sister republics…”
Victor Chapman
WOMEN
Bertha Arnold 1918
Evelyn Wainright
Lafayette, we are here!
We, the women of the United States, denied the liberty which you helped to gain, and for which we have asked in vain for sixty years, turn to you to plead for us. Speak, Lafayette! Dead these hundred years but still living in the hearts of the American people. Speak again to plead for us, mightier far than the sword she holds out to you?
Evelyn Wainright
Bertha Arnold
LINES ON LAFAYETTE DAY, 1920
By John Jay Chapman
Swiftly, the years flash by: our holiday Seems like the pivot of a circling show About which phantoms dance, joys come and go, While beckoning dangers call our thoughts away. The quietude of each recurring scene Recalls the tempests that have raged between.
We and the world are war-shocked and, we feel More of the jolts and jars of Fortune’s wheel Than men were made for. We need refuges, Deep-anchored rocks that in the foamy seas Rise llike cathedrals, —steadfast, calm, secure,
Fell on the Earth in crashes, long and loud, And we stood doubtful, buried in a cloud, — Like sheep, upon a hill, The piteous victims of divided will;
Nicholas Fish 1758-1833
Hamilton Fish III 1888-1981
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2 0 6 1 7 7 6 250 th July 4, 2026 Truth Big Moves Intimate Gestures
