The people appeared delirious with joy and with anxiety to hail him, grasp him by the hand, and shower attentions and honors upon him.

The gratitude and love of all persons, of every age, sex, and condition, seemed hardly to be restrained within bounds of propriety.

As he passed through the country, every city, village, and hamlet, poured out its inhabitants en masse, to meet him.

Celebrations, processions, dinners, illuminations, bonfires, parties, balls, serenades, and rejoicings of every description, attended his way, from the moment he set foot on the American soil, until his embarkation to return to his native France.
The hearts of the people in the most distant parts of the Western Hemisphere were warmed and touched with the honors paid him in the United States.

A letter written at that time from Buenos Ayres, says--"I have just received newspapers from the United States, informing me of the magnificent reception of Gen.