The true Democrat., 1857-02-10
A Beautiful Letter.

The following letter of Daniel Webster is
 selected, as one of the finest specimens of 8 q finished composition in the English language
 Asa model in epistolary style. 9 For sim rlicity. g. For grammatical accuracy. f. For beauty of thought and expression. g. For Saxon words and forms of expression, always ,-odominant in this standard writer of the En.
 nusb language. 6. For religious sentiment,
 ,,orvading frank expression on common sub-
 jects:
 E Richmond, Oct. 15, 1850,
 o'clock, A. NJ.
 uu, Dear Ffend:-Whether it be favor
 onnovance, you owe this letter to my early
 ;ana From the hour marked at the ton of
 .ha roge rou will naturally conclude that my
 companions are not now engaging my attention.
 os we have not calculated on being early tra- sveers to-day.
 F @This city has pleasant seat.' Itis high. ,le James river runs below it; and when [ ept out an hour ago, nothing was heard but the roaring of the falls. The air is very tran ouil. and its temperament mild. Itis mort.ing. End morning sweet and refreshing and de- gbdul.
 @ Everybody knows the morning in it's me- taphorcal sense applied to 50 many occasions 1he health and strength and beauty of early searS lead us to call that period the morning pf life:' Of,a lovely young woman we say, sle is bright as the morning.
 But the morning itself, few people, inha- plants Of cities, know anything about. Among 3ll our good people, not one out of a thousand bees the sun rise once in year. They know pothing of the morning. their idea of it is that 3 is that part of the day which comes after a tup of coffee or piece of toast. With them morning Is not new issuing of bgft, new bursting forth of the sun, new waking up of all that has life from sort of temporary death, to behold the works of God. De heavens and the earth. It is only part of De domestic day. belonging to reading the Newspapers, answering notes, sending the chil- 1ren to school, and giving orders for dinner lhe first streak of light, the earliest purpling 70 the east, which the lark springs up to greet. Ad the deeper aud deeper cooring into orange end red, till at length the glorious sun is seen. Regent of day'-this they never enjoy, for they bever see 1t.
 " Beautiful descriptions of morning abound D all languages, but they are strongest perhaps | the east, where the sun is frequently the ob- fct of worship. King David speaks of talk hgto himself the wings of the morning. This & highly poetical and beautiful The wings of Rs morning are the beams of the rising sun. ' is said that the Sun of Righteousness shall dse with healing in its wings-a morning that ball scatter life and health and joy throughout De universe. Milton has fine descriptions of !he morning, but not so many as Shakespeare, kom whose writings pages the most delight |n imagery, all founded on the glory of the norning might be filled.
 "I never thought Adam had much the ad- 1antage of Us for having seen the world when was new. The manifestations of the power ,t God, like his mercies, are new every morn ng and fresh every moment We see as fine nslng ot the sun as ever Adam saw; and it's rislngs are as much of miracle now as they were in his day, and I think a great deal more 70; because 1t is now part of the miracle that tr thousands and thousands of years he has come to his appointed time without the varia- tpn of the mllionth part of second. Adam ovuld not tell how this was.
 #"l know the morning: am acquainted with t and love it. I love it, fresh and sweet as As-a daily new creation breaking forth, and oing all that have life and breath and being a new adoration, new enjoyment, and new gra- htlde. As ever, your friend,
 " DANIEL. WEBSTER"