The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-10-11
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Senior Emilio Castelar, sent the follow.
ing letter to the widow Of M. TIMERS:
Saint Sebastien, sept.7, l87K7-The
blow which has been aimed at you by
Providence, madame, has wounded my
heart with deep affection. By the sor'
row that feel as the friend of his last
days ! realize all the sorrow you feel,
you the companion of his life, when
looking upon the inanimate remains of
the immortal dead.
In the first explosion Of my grief /
cried ont against that fatality which tore
him from us at a moment when he was
indispensable. And have appealed to
the energy of my soul in order to ascer-
tain whether living spirit like his ever
dies, because the organization which 1t
contained returns to the earth.
In many respects he remains yet with
us, in the thoughts which he conceived,
in the works he wrote, in the enterprises
he completed in the splendor Of his in
telligence and in the leaven Of life that
characterized all his acts. He lives, but
not as we have known and loved him in
this world, which appears more sad and
obscure when deprived Of his presence
and counsel.
France loses her first statesman, liber-
ty her most prudent defender, the Re-
public its recognized leader, Europe a
glorious name which holds foremost
title upon the Continent, humanity one
of its lights which by their brightness
paled the stars of heaven, less luminous
than great souls. FinanCier, historian,
philosopher, taCticiau, statesman, artist,
endowed with extraordinary eloquence,
with pen as creative as his work an
organizer OF the highest order, possess
ing practical sense of the finest kind,
having profound knowledge of events
and ideas-he belonged to that priv
ileged family of universal men, to that
Titanic race which we thought had dis
appeared with the advent Of Renais-
aance.
Nations are great, their illustrious sons
are greater; but l cannot deny that
France suffers deep modification in her
destiny by this sudden loss.
The human spirit is great and pro.
found, but we should not fail to reCog-
nize that it has fallen upon US as thick
shadow since the extinction Of this
light. 1t should be said that weighs less
in the universe when it has mixed with
its ashes and atoms brain which could
engender such grand and numerous
thoughts.
desired, Madam, to write you letter
which should convey to you little con-
ISOLATION; but ! should only augment the
grief in recalling the immensity of your
misfortune. But if it is true that sorrow
shared is sorrow ameliorated, yours, so
intense, exten1s from one end of the
civilized world to the other, wherever
there is q heart that beats for country
and liberty. The last words Of your il
lustrious husband, listened to with 30
much enthusiasm and meditated to-day
with such great concern, will remain as
the testament of our epoch and be
qneathed to other epochs in the future,
for the reason that, far from counseling
the domination of one nation over the
other, they counsel to noble France a
domination over herself.
All these considerations will be suffi-
cient to gil your soul with the religion
of his memory, and to elevate your glo-
rious mourning to the height Of Sdcer-
doce. If you have seen him fall from the
ripeness of his glory into the shadow of
death, reflection, dominating your sor-
rowful thoughts, will reveal him to you,
living in the pages of history by the re-
membrance of his services, and received
into the bosom of God by the merit Of
1his virtues. l beg you, Madame, to &C
eept the expression of my respect and OF
my sincere sorrow.
EMILIO CASTELAR,.