The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1843-11-09

A Coon DAUGHTER.-- good daughter! there
are other ministers Of love more conspicuous, but
none in which genfler, lovaliat spirit dwells,
and none to which the hearts warm requitals
more ioyfully respond TAsre d no such thing
las comparative estimate q . parents love for one
Tor another child. There Is little which he need
to coyet, to whom the treasure Of good child
has been given. But sons occupations and
pleasure carry him abroad, and he resides more
among temptations, which hardly permit the
affection that is following him, perhaps over
half the globe, to be wholly unmingled with
anxiety, until the time when he comes to relin-
qaish the shelter of his fathers roof for one of
his own while a good daughter is the steady
light of her parents house. Her idea is indis-
sOlubly connected with that of his happy Preside.
She is his morning sunlight and his evening
star. The grace and vivacity and tenderness Of
her sex have their place in the mighty sway
which she holds over his spirit. The lessons Of
recorded wisdom which he reads with her eyes
comes to his mind with new charm as blended
with the beloved melody of her voice. He
scarcely knows WEAKNESS which her song does
not make him forget, or gloom which is proof
against the young brightness of her smile She
is the pride and ornament of his hospitality, and
the gentle nurse Of his sickness and the constant
agent of those numberless acts of kindness
which one chiefly cares to have rendered
because they are unpretending, but expressive
proofs Of love. And then what cheerful
sharer she is, and what an able lghtener Of her
mothers cares What an ever-present delight
and triumph to mothers affections Oh, how
little do those daughters know of the power
which God has committed to them, and the
happiness God would have them enjoy, who do
not every time that parents eyes rests upon
them bring rapture to a parents heart! A true
love will almost certainly always greet their APP
preaching footsteps. That they will hardly
ALLEVIATE But their ambition should be not to
have it love merely which feelings implanted
by nature excite, but one made intense and over
flowing, by appreciation Of worthy conduct and
she is strangely blind to her own happiness, as
well as -undutiful, in whom the perpetual APP
peals Of parental dsinterestedness do not call
forth the prompt and full echo Of ilal devotion.
A BEAUTIFUL THoUGHT.-How few men SEEM
ed to have formed a conception OF the original
dignity of their nature or exalted design of their
creation. Regarding themselves only as the
creatures of time, endowed merely with the ami
NAL passions and intellectual faculties, their pro-
jects, aims, and expectations are circumscribed
by the narrow outline of human life. They
forget that instability and decay are written, as
with sunbeam, upon all earthly objects-that
this world, with all its pageantry and pomp and
power is crumbling to the dust-that the pre-
sent life is scarcely deserving thought, ex-
cepting as it forms the introduction to another,
and that he alone acts either prudent or ra-
tional part, who frames his plans with direct
reference to that future and endless state Of be-
ing. Sin has so blinded the understanding and
perverted the will and debased the affections,
that men never fail. to invest some temporal
good with fancied perfection, and idly imagine
that the attainment Of il would satisfy the de-