The Spirit of Lafayette

James Mott Hallowell (1865-? ) was an American author and Former Assistant Attorney-General of Massachusetts. He wrote The Spirit of Lafayette (1918). "A few years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence a hostile Mohawk chief met in council a representative of the young American republics for the purpose of concluding a treaty of peace. The representative of young democracy was a soldier of France, the Marquis de Lafayette. Primitive America on the one hand, ancient Europe on the other! "Father," said the Indian, "we have heard thy voice and we rejoice that thou hast visited thy children to give to them good and necessary advice."