A complete history of the Marquis de Lafayette, major-general in the American army in the war of the revolution. Embracing an account of his tour through the United States, to the time of his departure, September, 1825. By an officer in the late army.

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pected It in vain, if the enlightened will of the assembly had
not created the power entrusted to the national guards, and
if their united and harmonious efforts had not reinstated the
order which the first movements of liberty had destroyed.
" Gentlemen," he exclaimed, " you well knew the necessities
of France, and the will of Frenchmen, when you destroyed
the gothic fabric of our government and laws, and respected
only their monarchical principle: Europe then discovered
that a good king could be the protector of a free, as he had
been the ground of comfort to an oppressed, people.-The
rights of man are declared; the sovereignty of the people
acknowledged; their power is representative; and the bases
of public order are established. Hasten, then, to give energy
to the power of the state. The people owe to you the glory
of a new constitution: but they require and expect that peace
and tranquillity which cannot exist without a firm and effectual organization of gGvernment. —Wc, gentlemen, devoted
to the revolution, and united in the name of liberty, the
guarantees alike of individual and common rights and safety;
we, called by the most imperative duty from all parts of the
kingdom, founding our confidence on jrour wisdom, and our
hopes on your services, —we will bear, without hesitation, to
the altar of the country, the oath which you may dictate to
its soldiers.-Yes, gentlemen, our arms shall be stretched
forth together, and at the same instant, our brothers from all
parts of France, shall utter the oath which will unite them
together. May the solemnity of that great day be the signal
of the conciliation of parties, of the oblivion of resentments,
and of the establishment of public peace and happiness. —
And fear not that this holy enthusiasm will hurry us beyond
the proper and prescribed limits of public order. Under the
protection of the law, the standard of liberty shall never become the rallying point of licentiousness and disorder. Gentlemen, we swear to you to respect the law which it is our
duty to defend,-we swear, by our honour as freemen;and Frenchmen do not promise in vain."- The address of