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Title: The Spirit of Lafayette

Author: James Mott Hallowell

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THE SPIRIT OF LAFAYETTE

THE SPIRIT OF
LAFAYETTE

BY
JAMES MOTT HALLOWELL
_Former Assistant Attorney-General
of Massachusetts_

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GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1918

_Copyright, 1918, by_
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

_All rights reserved, including that of
translation into foreign languages,
including the Scandinavian_

DEDICATED TO
THE AMERICAN SOLDIER IN FRANCE
WHO HAS ANSWERED THE
CALL OF LAFAYETTE

THE SPIRIT OF LAFAYETTE

The Spirit of Lafayette

I

A few years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence a
hostile Mohawk chief met in council a representative of the young
American republics for the purpose of concluding a treaty of peace. The
representative of young democracy was a soldier of France, the Marquis
de Lafayette. Primitive America on the one hand, ancient Europe on the
other! "Father," said the Indian, "we have heard thy voice and we
rejoice that thou hast visited thy children to give to them good and
necessary advice. Thou hast said that we have done wrong in opening our
ears to wicked men, and closing our hearts to thy counsels. Father, it
is all true; we have left the good path; we have wandered away from it
and have been enveloped in a black cloud. We have now returned that thou
mayest find in us good and faithful children. We rejoice to hear thy
voice among us. It seems that the Great Spirit has directed thy
footsteps to this council of friendship to smoke the calumet of p