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HE travels of Lafayette through the United States in 1824 and 1825, TH as the honored guest of the nation, if sketched in minute detail, would introduce the reader to all the distinguished men of America at that time, and present an exhibition of art, education, industry, agriculture, manufactures, the picturesque features of the country, and the condition of affairs in general, as found in no other popular record. It will be remembered that Lafayette made his celebrated tour through the length and breadth of our land six years before the ground was broken, with a silver spade, for the first railroad (at Schenectady, July 29, 1830) in the state of New York. That he came at a period in American history when capital had, simultaneously with the marvelous leap forward in a grand career of national prosperity, distributed itself in channels of the utmost present and future interest and importance; when the development of industries, schemes of benevolence, the education of the laboring classes, and enterprises of internal improvement were overlapping each other in the public mind, and were the all-absorbing topics of conversation in business circles, in the drawing-room, and at the banquet table. Lafayette saw the man of wealth measured according to his intelligent pushing at the wheel of progress, and found intellectual activity and achievement the prevailing fashion. New York, for instance, had within eight years raised and applied to the support of common schools over nine millions of dollars, together with large sums bestowed upon colleges, and for the advancement of science and literature; and her Erie Canal-the greatest work of internal improvement the world had then known-was nearly completed. Lafayette was astonished at the changes time had wrought in forty years. "Albany as I have known it, and Albany as it is now a comparative standard between royal guardianship and the self-government of the people: may this difference be more and more illustrated at home, and understood abroad," was the toast he offered at the banquet given in his honor by the citizens of the capital of the Empire State. Albany as he had known it VOL. XVIII.-No. 6.-31 |