Why Lafayette Endures

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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

1 8 2 6 1 7 7 6 50 th July 4, 1826

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.”

September 19, 1916

Janet Livingston Montgomery
Edward Livingston
Thomas Barton
Cora Livingston Barton
“Alexander Gilson: my faithful friend and Servant…” Cora Barton

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 becomes a 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…”

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

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 1888-1991

1 8 2 6 1 7 7 6 50 th July 4, 1826

2 0 6 1 7 7 6 250 th July 4, 2026 Truth Big Moves Intimate Gestures

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