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We have before US . most interesting letter from
an American Lady, written at +" Lagrange, Decem-
ber 9th, 1896" where she had, for some time, been
on 4 visit 10 the venerable and excellent Lafayette.
We have much pleasure in submitting the following
extracts. They rub out foul caumny which, We
are al loss 10 know upon wha, authority, has been
extensively circulated against the American people


Dem. Press.


by the American papers see, q letter said TO
DC written BY very respecisble gentleman, giving
an account OF visi, TO Lagrange: among numer
Gus errors in lhia production, there is one which has
given General Lafayette real pain. 1t 10 where the
writer says, he is iniormed that nine applications Is
had been made to the General for money, the pre-
cedlng week. by young men from the United States.
Last night, the General said, with much animation,
that this was as great mistake, as ever WAS made,
and that he had never had single application OF
that nature that tbs Young Americans Who had
called upon him, had uniformly conducted them.
selves with the creates, proprie.y, and tha, there
was no Foundation Whatever, for the report.


~ have, says the letter writer, seen enough oI
other parts OF the world to teach me 10 ioye nv own
country more, and TO estlmats its advantages high
er' every day. Ours may emphatieally be called
the Land OF Liberty. The truth il, we have &c
much freedom and so little opper tunity Of contrast
ing our condition with other ceuntries, that We dc
not sufficiently appreciate our happnsss. The yea
tor and love OF county, feel, makes me anxou,
that the above declaration of our beloved Genera
may be given in reEu,aon Of the libel which ha,
been published"