Castelar will mourn the departure of a companion in arms in the peaceful battles of reform, as Cavour might have felt through the cable from him for emancipation an electric touch.
South America, with her strange mixture of barbarism with liberation, will be conscious of owing some honor to the obsequies of a sympathizer with all that is generous in her aspirations.
Hayti will deplore the decease of a supporter of her rights more powerful than any on her own shores.
A flutter of pain and sorrow will pass through that whole flock of islands alighted, as in the great harbor of our land, betwixt the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea.
So it will be because not only a man, a citizen of the Commonwealth and foremost trustee in the Congress of the country, but a cosmopolite is dead, deserving that name as truly as any man who, since the settlement of these colonies, has lived within their bounds.
What is the reason of the wide consequence of this event?
Not in the man's extraordinary original power.
Nature did not intend aught intellectually pre-eminent in his constitution.
It had no organic strength to strike out new paths in action or expression.
It fell into ways other agents had broken.