...an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life. APPENDIX. APPENDIX. No. I. p. 11. MARCH OF THE DETACHMENT UNDER THE MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE TO VIRGINIA....

...you. I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and honourable as your former ones have been glorious and honourable.' Not at all...to which, in its simplicity of greatness, the mind vainly stretches back through the wreck-strewed ages of the past ; and it was not till several minutes...

...an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life." He then advanced and delivered into the hands of the President his commission, with a copy of his address, and when he had...

...an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my .commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life." WASHINGTON'S DiAUGUllAL ADDRESS. In accordance with previous arrangements, General Washington met Congress...

...Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of action — and here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.' The delight with which Washington returned to private life is very vividly manifested in those of his...

...an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life. H. The following highly interesting letter was received from the Hon. Andrew Stewart, of Pennsylvania,...

...an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life." The President returned the following answer : " SIR, — The United States, in Congress assembled,...

...an affectionate farewell to this angnst body, under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life." The next day he returned to Mount Vernou. He wrote to Lafayette : " At length I am U come a private...

...an affectionate farewell to this august body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission and take my leave of all the employments of public life." The next morning he left for his farm, having for eight years and a half served his country without...

...bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life." " Few tragedies ever drew so many tears from so many beautiful eyes," says a writer who was present,...