There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

In the autumn of 1844 he moved to Scotland and became editor of the Glasgow Argus resigning in 1847. During the American Civil War he returned there as a correspondent for the Times in which capacity he discovered and disclosed the Fenian conspiracy. In the autumn of 1839 he spent a month's holiday in Scotland witnessing the Eglintoun Tournament which he described in the Chronicle and making acquaintances in Edinburgh.

Charles Mackay (26 March 1812 – 24 December 1889) was a Scottish poet journalist author anthologist novelist and songwriter remembered mainly for his book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.