[98] Ibid., pp. 237, 238.
[99] Ibid., p. 242.
[100] Mémoires, Tom. III. p. 412; Tom. IV. p. 229.
[101] Lettre à Madame d’Hénin, Magdebourg, 13 Mars, 1793: Mémoires, Tom. IV. p. 224; Sparks’s Life of Gouverneur Morris, Vol. I. p. 410; Washington’s Writings, ed. Sparks, Vol. IX. p. 163, note.
[102] Mémoires, Tom. III. pp. 72 and 401, note.
[103] Speech of Gen. Fitzpatrick in the House of Commons, December 16, 1796: Hansard’s Parliamentary History, Vol. XXXII. col. 1353.
[104] “M. de la Fayette est de ces hommes que nous devons aimer, et lors de sa captivité je me présentai à l’Empereur pour réclamer sa liberté, que je n’ai pas eu le bonheur d’obtenir.” This is the report, by Joseph Bonaparte, of the conversation of Lord Cornwallis at the dinner-table of the former, in 1802.—Mémoires du Roi Joseph, Tom. I. pp. 86, 87.
[105] In this effort Washington responded to the appeal of Madame de Lafayette by letter to himself. “In this abyss of misery,” she wrote, “the idea of owing to the United States and to Washington the life and liberty of M. de Lafayette kindles a ray of hope in my heart. I hope everything from the goodness of the people with whom he has set an example of that Liberty of which he is now made the victim.”—Letter of October 8, 1792: Washington’s Writings, ed. Sparks, Vol. X. p. 316, note.
[106] Exhibiting this chivalrous incident, Mr. Sumner had in mind our fugitive slaves and the generous souls who did not shrink from helping them.
[107] Letter to the Marchioness de Lafayette, January 31, 1793: Writings, ed. Sparks, Vol. X. p. 315.