In the South American revolutions against Spain, American sailors generally and, indeed, the American people as a whole, ardently sympathized with those who sought to establish for themselves free and independent governments.
Beveridge notes the American public's support for South American independence movements, reflecting on national sentiment during that era.
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No! but snatched from time, To bloom afresh in yonder sphere sublime.
To Marshall reared--the great, the good, the wise; Born for all ages, honored in all skies; His was the fame to mortals rarely given, Begun on earth, but fixed in aim on heaven.
There was about him so little of 'the insolence of office,' and so much of the benignity of the man, that his presence always produced ... the most delightful impressions.
These had power To charm through life and cheer his dying hour.
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