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Identifier: magazineofamericv18stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
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of the newspapers said : The publicmind is so highly excited by the arrival of Lafayette, that ten thousandpersons have visited his portrait at the coffee-house. The current ac-counts of the landing and reception of Lafayette in New York on the 15thand 16th of August, 1824, read like fairy stories. The 15th was Sunday, andLafayette was conducted from his ship to the residence of the Vice-Presi-dent, on Staten Island. On Monday all business in the city was suspended,and thousands of people crowded the streets and housetops from thetowns in the vicinity, to witness the pageant and catch glimpses of theillustrious French general. The evening journals went to press early,and then closed their offices for the day. On the 17th they chronicled theproceedings in brilliant and effective style. The most interesting sight,said the Evening Post, was the reception of the general by his old com-panions in arms—Colonel Marinus Willett, now in his eighty-fifth year; 460 OUR COUNTRY FIFTY YEARS AGO
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j 0, « *. «j w s ^ s t/3 5 5 1 X w 4 h %1 55 W k O Q t5 OUR COUNTRY FIFTY YEARS AGO af,i General (Philip) Van Cortlandt, General Clarkson, Colonel Varick, ColonelPiatt, Colonel Trumbull, and several members of the Cincinnati. Heembraced them all affectionately, and Colonel Willett again and a gain.He knew and remembered them all. It was a reunion of a long-separatedfamily. After the ceremony of embracing and congratulations was over,he (Lafayette) sat down alongside Colonel Willett, who grew youngagain and fought his battles all oer. Do you remember, said he, atthe battle of Monmouth, I was volunteer aide to General Scott ? I sawyou in the heat of battle. You were but a boy, but you were a serious,sedate lad. Ay, ay ; I remember well. And on the Mohawk, I sent youfifty Indians, and you wrote me that they set up such a yell that theyfrightened the British horse, and they ran one way and the Indiansanother! Innumerable anecdotes of the Revolution and reminiscenceswere rehearsed during

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