Lafayette embraced them with tears of joy. Then looking around the tent, and seeing some of Washington’s equipment, he exclaimed in a subdued voice:-- “I remember! I remember!” Later in the day, a procession was formed, which as it passed through the streets of Baltimore, displayed in a place of honour the crimson silk banner of Count Pulaski, embroidered for him by the Moravian Nuns of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. In Boston, Lafayette in a barouche drawn by four beautiful white horses, was escorted by a brilliant procession through the streets. At the Common, he passed between two lines of school-children, girls in white, and boys in blue and white; and a lovely little girl crowned him with a wreath of blossoms. Across Washington Street, were thrown two arches decorated with flags, and inscribed with the words:-- WELCOME, LAFAYETTE! _The Fathers in glory shall sleep, That gathered with thee to the fight, But the Sons will eternally keep The Tablet of Gratitude bright. We bow not the neck, and we bend not the knee, But our hearts, Lafayette, we surrender to thee._ And when he entered Lexington, he passed beneath an arch on which was written in flowers: _Welcome! Friend of America! To the Birthplace of American Liberty._ SEPTEMBER 24 JOHN MARSHALL THE EXPOUNDER OF THE CONSTITUTION _I had grown up at a time ... when the maxim, “United we stand, divided we fall,” was the maxim of every orthodox American; and I had imbibed these sentiments so thoroughly that they constituted a part of my being._ JOHN MARSHALL. _He had a deep sense of moral and religious obligation, and a love of truth, constant, enduring, unflinching. It naturally gave rise to a sincerity of thought, purpose, expression and conduct, which, though never severe, was always open, manly, and straightforward._ _Yet it was combined with such a gentle and bland demeanour, that it never gave offense. But it was, on the contrary, most persuasive in its appeals to the understanding._ _Justice_ JOSEPH STORY JOHN MARSHALL was born in Virginia, September 24, 1755 Became an officer in a Company of Minute Men, 1775 Was Envoy to France, 1797 Was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1801 He died, July 6, 1835 THE BOY OF THE FRONTIER _In a Log Cabin_ Through the ancient and unbroken forests, toward the Monongahela River, Braddock made his slow and painful way. Weeks passed, then months. But the Colonists felt no impatience because everybody knew what would happen when his scarlet columns should finally meet and throw themselves upon the enemy. Yet this meeting when it came, proved to be one of the lesser tragedies of history, and had a deep and fateful effect upon American public opinion, and upon the life and future of the American People.