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day. We hoped from him yet much more for the welfare 
and the honor of our country. Yet we will not call his 
death untimely. He had lived to see the would-be destroy- 
ers of the republic melting away, like the night dew as the 
sun grows high, — to behold his country, amid struggles which 
his enemies had fondly deemed her death-throes, putting 
_ forth new tokens of life, and inaugurating a new era for her 
science as well as for her liberties. After years of discour- 
agement and disappointment, he had seen his own services 
recognized. While the institution in the other hemisphere 
whose successful foundation was due to his own ability and 
endeavor had become permanent and active, he had enjoyed 
the yet greater satisfaction of seeing the cloud disperse 
which had so long overshadowed that other institution which 
had been one of the dearest objects of his life, and whose 
reputation his earliest and his latest labors have alike iden- 
tified with his own. When charlatanism and disloyalty were 
' no longer predominant there, we may imagine the just pride 
with which he had entered its doors and assumed command. 
When he departed, the new day-star which has risen upon 
our nation was high enough in heaven to show him the 
auguries of the morning, yet it had not sufficed to throw 
_ those dark shadows which we must yet encounter, or to dis- 
E play the unwelcome forms which yet remain for our eyes. 
No lingering disease wasted his manly powers, nor was his 
active mind fettered in the dungeon of an exhausted body. 
His brain was full of large ideas, his heart teeming with 
kindly affections, when “ God’s finger touched him, and he 
slept.” 
