Alexandria Gazette

MEMORY OF LA-FAYETTE
Correspondence of the N. Y. Jour. of Commerce.
Boston, Sept. 5, 1834.
Faneuil Hall has seen another of its splendid days-a day to be long remembered by all who sat beneath those "famous arches," "of old," as the orator described them on this occasion, "with all the ancient voices of American renown." Such an assembly, and such a spirit, and such performances, so worthy of them both, it has not been the fortune of many members of this generation to witness. The procession was the greatest spectacle of the kind we have had within my recollection-I do not mean for pageantry or show, but for respectability, and regularity, and especially for the all-pervading presence of a single spirit throughout it, and throughout the far greater multitude of all classes and ages, which thronged the streets through which it passed.
The oration occupied an hour and forty minutes, and was delivered, as usual with Mr. Everett, unaided by his manuscripts, so that he was wholly free to devote himself, as he did, with the utmost of his polished energy, to the delivery of what I doubt not will be universally pronounced, when it goes before the public, the most satisfactory and elegant comment the world has seen, on the character and memory of the illustrious dead. Apparently about an hour of it was omitted, though the audience listened with a breathless interest from the first word to the last, which might well have enabled the speaker to occupy more of their time. The day was magnificent, and the whole celebration incomparably fine.