Speaking of Anzoategui's death, he said: "I would
have preferred the loss of two battles to the loss of Anzoategui." No more
beautiful way could be found to be generous while being just.
We have called Bolivar a gentleman; we might rather call him a knight.
He loved an ideal and lived for that ideal, and that ideal was his last
thought before he went to his rest.
He was judged in Europe and North America in very flattering terms. Daniel
Webster, J.H. Perkins and Joseph Story, in the name of the Bunker Hill
Monument Association, wrote Bolivar the following:
"When we read of the enormous sacrifice of personal fortune, the
calmness in difficult situations, the exercise without misusing
a power greater than imperial power, the repeated refusal of
dictatorship, the simplicity of your Republican habits and the
submission to the constitution and law which has so gloriously
distinguished the career of Your Excellency, we believe that we see the
image of our venerated Washington. At the same time that we admire and
respect his virtues, we feel moved by the greatest sympathy to pay
equal homage to the hero and Liberator of the South."
Martin Van Buren wrote:
"What better example could be presented of human glory than that
the great chieftain who, after having successfully resisted foreign
aggression and extinguished domestic commotion, also conquered the
weakness to which noble hearts have been subjected at all times.
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