Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1878, by LANE S. HART, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. IN 1824, when General Lafayette arrived at Philadelphia, and was nobly welcomed as “The Nation’s Guest,” the writer of this book was staying several weeks at the hospitable home of his amiable and kind relative, Mrs. BETSY ROSS. The arrival of Lafayette excited and brightened her extraordinary memory, as she very cheerfully entertained all her friends, by relating the most interesting facts of the Revolution, and its FLAG of Victory. Her words we well remember. She objected, as a member of the society of “Friends,” to sit for her portrait, neverth…
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