Lafayette's Adventures in the War of Independence

On April 15th, Lafayette's party aborted the Nachiz and began a thousand-mile trip up the Mississippi River to St. Louis. For the next two weeks, they steamed through near total wilderness, with Louisiana, Arkansas, and Missouri on their left, and Mississippi, Tennessee, and Kentucky on their right. On May 5th, they visited Andrew Jackson. They were greeted by Illinois Governor Edward Coles, who moved to Illinois from Virginia specifically to free his slaves. Levesseur was told residents around the Mississippi River, often meet with much more interesting traces of the greatest antiquity,. indicating that this world which we call New was the seat of civilization, perhaps long interior,