Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1857-01-10
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is selected as oue of the finest specimens Of
finished composition in the English Ian
guage. /. As model in cpistolary style
2. For simplicity. 8. For grammatical ac-
euracy T. For beauty Of Thought and ex-
preston. 5. For Saxon words and forms
of expression, always predominant in this
standard writer Of the English language.
s. For religious sentiment, pcrvading a
frank expression on common objects
RICHMOND. Oct. 10. 1850, 5 o'clk, a. m.
"lny Dear Friend, W Whether it be ia
vor or an annoyance, you eve this letter to
my habit of early riding, from the hour
marked at the top Of the pag,e, you will nat
urally conclude that ny companions are not
now engaging my attention, as we have not
calculated on being early travellers to-day.
"This city has pheasant seat. 1t is
high the James river runs below it; and
when went out an hour ago, nothing was
heard but the roar of the fills The air is
tranquil, and its temperature mild. 1t is
morning, and morning sweet and refresh
ing and delightful.
Everybody knows the morning in its
metsphorieal sense, applied to SO many oc-
casions. The health. strength, and beauty
Of early years, lead US to call that period
the morning Of life" OF a lovely young
woman, we say, .she is as bright as the
morning." and no one doubts why Lucifer
is called "son Of the morning."
but the morning ITSELF few people, in
habitarts of cities, know anything about
Among all our good people, rot one in a
thousand sees the sun rise once a year
They know nothing of the morning Their
idea of it is, that part OF the day which
comes along after cup of tea or piece of
toast. With them, morning is not new
issuing Of light a new bursting forth of the
sun, new waking up of all that has life
from Il sort of temporary death. to behold
again the works of God, the heaven and the
earth. 1t is only part of the domestic day
belonging to reading newspapers, answer
ing notes. sending the children to school
and giving orders for dinner The first
streak of light, the earliest p,ri ling of the
East which the lark springs uo TO greet,
and the deeper and deeper eolering into or
ange and red, till at length the glorious sun
is seen. regent of day'--this, they never
enjoy, for they never see it.
beautiful descriptions of morning abound
in all languages, but they are strongest per-
haps iii the East, where the sun isfrequent-
" the object of worship. King David speaks
of taking to himself tho wings Of the morn
ing This is highly poetieal and beautiful.
The wings of the morning are the beams of
the rising sun. 1t is said that ''thc sun of
Righteousness shall arise with healing III his
wings morning that shall scatter life
and health and JOY throughout the Universe.
Milton has fine descriptions Of the morning,
but not so many as Shakespeare, from whose
writings poees of the most beautiful image
ry, all founded on the glory Of the morning,
might be filled
Il never thought Adam had much the
advantage Of us for having seen the world
when it was now. The manifestation of the
power of God, like his mercies, are "new
every morning, and fresh every moment"
We see as fine risings Of the sun as .Adam
ever saw and its risings are as much mir
scle now as they were i'll his days, and l
think great deal more so because it is
now part of the miracle, that for thou
sands and thousands of years he has come
to his appointed time without the variation
ola millionth part Of a seoul. Adam could
not tell how this might be
Il know the morning | am acquainted
with it, and l love it. love it, flesh and
sweet as it is-a daily new creation break
ing forth, and calling all that have life and
breath and being to a new alteration, new
enjoyments, and new gratitude
CAS- ever, your friend,
"DANIEL WEBSTER