Note 119 — LAFAYETTE, THE FAITHFUL ONE.

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.