[99] Ibid., p. 242. [100] Mémoires, Tom. III. p. 412; Tom. IV. p. 229. [101] Lettre à Madame d’Hénin, Magdebourg, 13 Mars, 1793: Mémoires, Tom. IV. p. 224; Sparks’s Life of Gouverneur Morris, Vol. I. p. 410; Washington’s Writings, ed. Sparks, Vol. IX. p. 163, note. [102] Mémoires, Tom. III. pp. 72 and 401, note. [103] Speech of Gen. Fitzpatrick in the House of Commons, December 16, 1796: Hansard’s Parliamentary History, Vol. XXXII. col. 1353. [104] “M. de la Fayette est de ces hommes que nous devons aimer, et lors de sa captivité je me présentai à l’Empereur pour réclamer sa liberté, que je n’ai pas eu le bonheur d’obtenir.” This is the report, by Joseph Bonaparte, of the conversation of Lord Cornwallis at the dinner-table of the former, in 1802.--_Mémoires du Roi Joseph_, Tom. I. pp. 86, 87. [105] In this effort Washington responded to the appeal of Madame de Lafayette by letter to himself. “In this abyss of misery,” she wrote, “the idea of owing to the United States and to Washington the life and liberty of M. de Lafayette kindles a ray of hope in my heart. I hope everything from the goodness of the people with whom he has set an example of that Liberty of which he is now made the victim.”--_Letter of October 8, 1792_: Washington’s Writings, ed. Sparks, Vol. X. p. 316, note. [106] Exhibiting this chivalrous incident, Mr. Sumner had in mind our fugitive slaves and the generous souls who did not shrink from helping them. [107] Letter to the Marchioness de Lafayette, January 31, 1793: Writings, ed. Sparks, Vol. X. p. 315. [108] Letter dated Lemkuhlen, 27 Janvier, 1798: Mémoires, Tom. IV. p. 403. [109] Letter of 20th April, 1798: Ibid., p. 432. [110] Ibid., Tom. V. p. 71. [111] Mémoires, Tom. V. p. 198. [112] May 20, 1802. Ibid., pp. 199, 200. [113] Mémoires, Tom. V. pp. 257, 258, 261. [114] Letter to Mr. Madison, 22d April, 1805, MS. [115] Biographie Universelle (Michaud), Supplément, Tom. LXIX. p. 382, art. LAFAYETTE. [116] Speech in the Chamber of Deputies, June 4, 1819: Mémoires, Tom. VI. pp. 50, 51. [117] Speech in the Chamber of Deputies, May 27, 1820: Ibid., p. 83. [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.