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 ington had been founded and partly built, and the na- 

 tional capital had been moved there from Philadelphia. 

 The years had had their tragedies : Hamilton had fall- 

 en at the hands of Burr, and Burr's unbridled ambition 

 had been his own undoing; Dorothy Payne, after be- 

 coming Airs. Todd had become Dolly Madison, and 

 had reigned through Jefferson's and her husband's ad- 

 ministrations. She was no longer First Lady of the 

 Land, but she still held her place as ''Queen of Ameri- 

 can Society." 



A new^ generation had come upon the scene. New 

 leaders claimed popular atention and interest. Some 

 of them were exceptionally able men. There wer^, 

 for instance. Clay, Calhoun, Randolph and Webster. 

 Lafayette was to lay the corner stone of Bunker Hill 

 Monument, and to hear the great New Englander de- 

 liver, on that occasion, one of his finest orations. 



The reception of Lafayette, on his last visit, v. as 

 as spontaneously enthusiastic as that which Joffrc and 

 Viviani are receiving today. New York was com- 

 paratively small then, but it seemed to witnesses of 

 the scene at the Battery, that when the guest of the na- 

 tion arrived the Avhole population was there to welcome 

 him. The city was decorated, much as it has been 

 with a great display of bunting, the Stars and Stripes 

 and the Tricolor being everywhere intertwined. The 

 landing initiated a series of ovations which extended 

 over the length and breadth of the country. Lafayette, 

 in response to popular demands, made a tour through 

 the twenty-four states then in the Union, covering al- 



