He dwelt upon the peculiar pleasure with which the presence of Mr.Gallatin was always hailed, and the peculiar interest it gave to the proceedings of the society, and many an eye was dimmed, as he recalled the venerable form, the beautifully classic head, the countenance ever beaming with intelligence, and summed up the long and useful career of the departed sage in these impressive words:-- "The name of Albert Gallatin is emphatically a name of history.

Few men have lived in any age whose biographies have been so intimately connected with the history of their country.

Living in one of the most interesting periods of the world, a period of great events, of the discussion of great principles and the settlement of great interests, almost the whole of his long and active life was passed in public service amidst those events and in those discussions....
For nearly half a century he was almost constantly employed in the public service; almost every department of that service has received the benefit of his extraordinary talents and his varied and extensive and accurate knowledge.

Whether in legislation, in finance, or in diplomacy, he has been equally distinguished in all.
In all or in either he has had few equals and still fewer superiors." To Jeremy Bentham Mr.Gallatin acknowledged himself indebted, as his master in the art of legislation; but from whatever ground he drew his maxims of government, they were reduced to harmony in the crucible of his own intelligence by the processes of that brain which Spurzheim pronounced capital,[31] and Dumont held to be the best head in America.
In that massive and profound structure lay faculties of organization and administration which mark the Latin and Italian mind in its highest form of intellectual development.
His moral excellence was no less conspicuous than his intellectual power.

He had a profound sense of justice, a love of liberty, and an unfaltering belief in the capacity of the human race for self-rule.
Versed in the learning of centuries, and familiar with every experiment of government, he was full of the liberal spirit of his age.