Chapter I: Front Matter

LAFAYETTE IN AMERICA
IN 1824 AND 1825;
OR,
JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE
TO THE
UNITED STATES:

BY A. LEVASSEUR,

SECRETARY TO GENERAL LAFAYETTE DURING HIS JOURNEY.

VOL. II.

PHILADELPHIA:

CAREY AND LEA.

1829.

Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to wit:

Be it remembered, That on the sixth day of November, in the
fifty-fourth year of the independence of the United States of
America, A. D. 1829, Carey and Lea, of the said district, have
deposited in this Office the title of a Book, the right whereof they
claim as proprietors in the words following, to wit:

“Lafayette in America in 1824 and 1825; or Journal of a Voyage to
the United States: by A. Levasseur, Secretary to General Lafayette
during his journey. Translated by John D. Godman, M. D.”

In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States,
entitled “An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the
copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of
such copies during the times therein mentioned.” And also to the
act, entitled, “An act supplementary to an act, entitled, ‘An act
for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of the
maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such
copies during the times therein mentioned,’ and extending the
benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching
historical and other prints.”

(Signed) D. CALDWELL,
_Clerk of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania_.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.
P.

Maryland Cattle Show—Indian Deputation introduced to Gen.
Lafayette—President’s Message—Extraordinary honours paid to the
Nation’s Guest—National recompense presented by Congress 9

CHAPTER II.

Election of the President—Public character of the President—Public
Officers—Congress—Grand public dinner on the 1st of January 22

CHAPTER III.

Departure from Washington—American Feelings—Sea-Lion—Family of Free
Negroes—Raleigh—Fayetteville—North Carolina 29

CHAPTER IV.

Entrance into South Carolina—Route from Cheraw to Cambden—Monument
erected to Baron de Kalb—Road from Cambden to
Charleston—Rejoicing in Charleston—Colonel Huger—History,
Institutions, and Manners, of the South Carolinians 38

CHAPTER V.

Fort Moultrie—Edisto Island—Alligators—Savannah—Funeral
Monuments—Augusta—State of Georgia 55

CHAPTER VI.

Departure from Milledgeville—Macon—Indian Agency—Meeting with
Indians during a Storm—Hamley—M’Intosh’s Tribe—Uchee Creek—Big
Warrior—Captain Lewis—Line Creek—Montgomery—Farewell of
M’Intosh—Cahawba-State of Alabama—Mobile 70

CHAPTER VII.

Departure from Mobile—Gulf of Mexico—Passage of the Belize—Landing
at the entrenchments near New Orleans—Entrance into the
city—Entertainments and public Ceremonies—Battle of New Orleans 87

CHAPTER VIII.

History and Constitution of Louisiana—Baton-Rouge—Natchez—State of
Mississippi—Voyage to St. Louis—Reception of General Lafayette in
that city 102

CHAPTER IX.

Changes produced in the navigation of the Mississippi since the
introduction of Steam—Arrival at Kaskaskia—The Canadians and
Indians—Singular meeting with a young Indian educated among the
Whites, and returned to savage life—Indian Ballad—State of
Illinois—Departure from Kaskaskia—Separation of General Lafayette
and the Louisiana deputation 129

CHAPTER X.

Cumberland River—Arrival at Nashville—Tennessee Militia—Residence
of General Jackson—Shipwreck on the Ohio—Louisville—Journey from
Louisville to Cincinnati by land—State of Kentucky—Anecdote 150

CHAPTER XI.

Arrival at Cincinnati—Entertainments given by that city—Swiss of
Vevay—State of Ohio—The Vinton family—Journey from Wheeling to
Uniontown—Speech of Mr. Gallatin—New Geneva—Braddock’s
field—General Washington’s first feat of arms—Pittsburgh 172

CHAPTER XII.

Route from Pittsburg to Erie—Commodore Perry’s Victory—Night Scene
at Fredonia—The Indian Chief at Buffalo—Falls of Niagara—Visit to
Fort Niagara—Appearance of Lockport—Passage from Lockport to
Rochester—Aqueduct over the Genessee River—Route by land from
Rochester to Syracuse—Passage from Syracuse to Schenectady, Rome,
and Utica—Grand Canal 184

CHAPTER XIII.

Return to Boston—Reception of Lafayette by the Legislature of
Massachusetts—Celebration of the anniversary of Bunker’s
hill—History of the Revolution familiar to the
Americans—Departure from Boston 200

CHAPTER XIV.

Rapid and hasty visit to the states of New Hampshire, Maine, and
Vermont—Return to New York—Celebration of the Anniversary of
American Independence—American vessels of war—Patriotism and
disinterestedness of the Seamen of New York 208

CHAPTER XV.

Letter of Mr. Keratry on the Anniversary of Bunker’s hill—Fair
Mount Water Works at Philadelphia—Germantown—Mr. Watson’s
Historical Box—Field of the Battle of Brandywine—Invocation of
the Rev. William Latta—Clergy of Lancaster—Return to Baltimore,
lighted by a fire 223

CHAPTER XVI.

Return to Washington—Character of the new President—Visit to the
ex-president, become a farmer and justice of the peace—Government
offers Lafayette a ship of war to return in to France—Presents
made to Bolivar through Lafayette—New homage from the city of New
York—Farewell of the President to the Nation’s Guest—Departure
from Washington city—Embarkation in the
Brandywine—Voyage—Testimonies of attachment and regret of the
crew of the Brandywine to Lafayette—Reception at Havre—some hours
at Rouen—Reception of Lafayette at La Grange by the inhabitants
of his vicinity 241

LAFAYETTE IN AMERICA.