patronage, the extension of trial by wait upon the General with an explana- At length, after a year spent in these receptions and festivities, he took leave of the country, with the parting benediction of the President at Washington, embarking in a national vessel, the Brandywine, on the Potomac. His last farewell was to the home of Washington. On his return to France, in the autumn of 1825, Lafayette carried with him the prestige of his importance in America. He became more prominent in the Chamber of Deputies. He was the available leader of the popular party, as the rule of Charles X. revived the despotic principles of their race. Among the reforms which he advocated, were a diminution of ministerial 'Cutter's Life of Lafayette, p. 363. The Duke of Orleans was king, but in various parts of Europe, and secured to France, so far as he could, the advantage of a popular government. His moderation was particularly shown in protecting the accused ministers of Charles X., during their trial, from the vengeance of the people. As his reward from the government for this service, the office which he held as commander-in-chief of the National Guard was proposed to be abolished. He understood the slight, and resigned the command; continuing, however, to hold his seat in the Chamber of Deputies. Lafayette survived but a few years the accession of Louis Philippe. One of the last scenes in which he was prominently before the public, was at the funeral of General Lamarque, in 1832, when a popular manifestation was attempted. The people removed his horses from his coach, and would have dragged him in triumph to the Hôtel de Ville, but he had no taste for irregular movements of this kind, and quietly managed to get conducted to his home, while the government was calling out all its forces to suppress an insurrection, of which he was supposed to be at the head. He survived this event about two years. Another funeral which he attended, of a colleague of the Chamber of Deputies, was the cause of his death, from the exposure to which he was subjected. He took a cold, which settled on his lungs, and after an illness of more than two months, aggravated by a relapse, died in Paris, May 20, 1834, in his seventyseventh year. He was buried in a humble, quiet cemetery, in an out-ofthe-way part of the city, by the side of his beloved wife. A plain, reclining slab, with a simple inscription, marks his grave. There are few Americans who visit Paris, who do not turn for a few moments from its pomp and gaieties to visit this unpretending spot. The news of the death of Lafayette was received in the United States with unaffected emotions of sorrow. Signal notice was taken of the event in Congress. A committee of twenty-five members of the House of Representatives, one from each State, was ap pointed to confer with a committee of the Senate, to express "the deep sensibility of the nation by some token of respect and affection." Resolutions of respect and condolence were passed, and Ex-President John Quincy Adams was requested to deliver a funeral oration before both houses at the next session. The oration was accordingly pronounced in the hall of the House of Representatives, the last day of December, 1834. The name of Lafayette has long been coupled with that of Washington, and there certainly was much akin in their temperaments to justify their remark able friendship. Both were men of justice, modesty, untiring usefulness and activity combined with great moderation. We need not carry the parallel further, or seek to estimate the difficulties by which the character of each was tested. We may rest content with the good fortune of our country that Washingtor s was the most suc cessful, the most symmetrical life. ROGER SHERMAN. The education of the boy was limited, being confined to the ordinary ROGER SHERMAN, of whom Connecti- | son, William, we are told, was a farmer cut is justly proud, as the companion in moderate circumstances. He resided in legal ability and fame of Oliver at Newton, Massachusetts, where, on Ellsworth, one who, in acuteness, force the nineteenth of April, 1721, his son of character and conscientious fidelity, Roger was born. illustrates the foremost virtues of her soil, was of an old English family, traced to the days of the Tudors. The rudimentary instruction of the country Shermans of Yaxley, in the County of Suffolk, sent, in 1634, three emigrants to America. Two of them were brothers-Samuel, one of the early settlers of Connecticut, and John, the great divine and eminent mathematician, whose praise was in all the churches and at Harvard, and who carried his simple lessons of piety, on the wings of his popular almanac, to the humblest households. Their cousin, Captain John Sherman, as he was called, settled in Watertown, Massachusetts. "He was," says a recent New England historian, "a soldier of high courage, and that his education had not been neglected, his beautifully legible and clerkly hand, which still perpetuates the records of Watertown in Massachusetts, as well as the phraseology of the records themselves, bear ample testimony." He was the great-grandfather of Roger Sherman. His grand 1 'Hollister's History of Connecticut, II. 439. schools of the time; not so the learning he derived from observation and the exercise of his naturally sagacious intellect. He was self-taught, so far as that phrase can be applied in a world where we are all mutually dependent as well for instruction and knowledge as for other things. The contrast, perhaps, between his early education and the intellectual profession in which he gained his reputation, has enhanced the sense of his acquisitions. He died a famous member of the bench, reverenced for his services to the Constitution. He begun life as an apprentice to a shoemaker, and pursued the trade long enough to be ranked high in the list of worthies who have transcended their calling, and been honored as sons of St. Crispin. The death of his father, in 1741, threw the care of his mother and younger brothers and sisters upon him when he was nineteen, and it is recorded to his credit that he made libe |