With  his  son  and  a  private  secretary,  he  landed


in  New  York  (Aug.  15,1824),  visited  in  succes-
sion the  whole  twenty -four  states,  and  was
everywhere  received  with  demonstrations  of
love  and  respect.  He  would  have  been  received
with  equal  respect  and  enthusiasm  by  his  own
Iieople  on  his  return  had  not  the  government
interfered.  During  the  revolution  of  1830,  that
drove  Charles  X.  from  the  throne,  Lafayette  was
made  commander-in-chief  of  theNational  Guard,
in  which  capacity  he  did  great  public  service.  He
sacrificed  his  own  republican  preferences  for  the
sake  of  peace  and  order,  and  placed  Louis  Phil-
ippe on  the  throne.  He  died  the  acknowledged
chief  of  the  constitutional  party  on  the  Continent
of  Europe.  He  received  a  magnificent  public  fu-
neral, when  his  remains  were  conveyed  to  their
resting-place  in  the  cemetery  of  Pigpers,  a  pri-
vate burial-ground  of  several  families  of  the
nobility  of  Paris,  back  of  the  gai-dens  of  what
was  ouce  a  nunnery,  but  a  boarding-school  for
young  ladies  in  1850.     The  monument  is  about


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eight  feet  square,  and  composed  of  dark  sand-
stone, with  appropriate  inscriptions  iu  French.
The  cross  seen  in  the  picture  stands  over  the
grave  of  another.
Lafayette's  Voyage  to  America.  When
Lafayette  and  other  French  ofScers  were  ready
to  embark  for  America  (1777),  he  was  informed
that  the  credit  of  the  Continental  Congress  was
so  low  that  it  could  not  furnish  them  a  trans-
port. The  young  enthusiast  replied,  "Then  I
will  purchase  one  myself."  Heboughtand  secret-
ly freighted  -a  vessel,  called  the  Victory,  to  carry
himself,  the  veteran  Baron  de  Kalb,  and  ten  or
twelve  other  French  officers  across  the  Atlantic.
