[118] Speech in the Chamber of Deputies, July 9, 1829: Mémoires, Tom. VI. p. 313. Biographie Universelle (Michaud), Supplément, Tom. LXIX. p. 388, art. Lafayette.
[119] Mémoires, Tom. VI. pp. 185, 220. There is also a correspondence with Colonel Seaton, of the National Intelligencer, on this interesting subject. A letter to the latter, dated January 1, 1827, has seen the light since this address, where, alluding to the District of Columbia, Lafayette says: “The state of Slavery, especially in that emporium of foreign visitors and European ministers, is a most lamentable drawback on the example of independence and freedom presented to the world by the United States.”—William Winston Seaton, a Biographical Sketch, p. 267.
[120] Mrs. Jameson’s Sacred and Legendary Art, pp. 424-427.
[121] Ordre du Jour du 29 Juillet, 1830: Mémoires, Tom. VI. p. 391.
[122] Ordre du Jour du 19 Décembre, 1830: Mémoires, Tom. VI. p. 491.
[123] Lettre à Thomas Clarkson, 11 Mai, 1823: Ibid., p. 159.
[124] Mémoires, Tom. VI. p. 222.
[125] Ibid., p. 754, note.
[126] Lettre à M. Murray, Président de la Société d’Émancipation des Noirs, à Glasgow, 1 Mai, 1834: Mémoires, Tom. VI. p. 763, note.
[127] Funeral Oration over the first who fell in the Peloponnesian War: Thucydides, Hist., Book II. c. 43.