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Dear to the Muse thrice dear to Nationality to the whole human race precious to this Union precious to Democracy unspeakably and forever precious their first great Martyr Chief. Camden, N.J., U.S. America, March 17th, 1876. DEAR FRIEND: Yours of the 28th Feb. receiv'd, and indeed welcom'd.
One of his traits was that while he knew all, and welcom'd all sorts of great genre literature, all lands and times, from all writers and artists, and not only tolerated each, and defended every attack'd literary person with a skill or heart-catholicism that I never saw equal'd invariably advocated and excused them he kept an idiosyncrasy and identity of his own very mark'd, and without special tinge or undue color from any source.
One of the calm, pleasantly cool, exquisitely clear and cloudless, early spring nights the atmosphere again that rare vitreous blue-black, welcom'd by astronomers. Just at 8, evening, the scene overhead of certainly solemnest beauty, never surpass'd. Venus nearly down in the west, of a size and lustre as if trying to outshow herself, before departing.
It is beautified with a numerous Train of Swans, and other sorts of Water-Fowl, not common, though extraordinary pleasing to the Eye. The forward Spring welcom'd us with her innumerable Train of small Choristers, which inhabit those fair Banks; the Hills redoubling, and adding Sweetness to their melodious Tunes by their shrill Echoes.
I had also personally seen and heard, various years afterward, how Andrew Jackson, Clay, Webster, Hungarian Kossuth, Filibuster Walker, the Prince of Wales on his visit, and other celebres, native and foreign, had been welcom'd there all that indescribable human roar and magnetism, unlike any other sound in the universe the glad exulting thunder-shouts of countless unloos'd throats of men!
He struggled for a time against the evil influence, but it press'd upon him harder and harder. He had heard of a people in the western world a new and swarming land where the stranger was welcom'd, and peace and the protection of the strong arm thrown around him.
When it came upon earth, 'twas to choose a career, The brightest and best that is left to a TEAR; To hallow delight, and bestow the relief Denied by despair to the fulness of grief. Few repell'd it some bless'd it wherever it came; Whether soft'ning their sorrow, or soothing their shame; And the joyful themselves, though its name they might fear, Oft welcom'd the calming approach of the TEAR!
She was known by the name of the Peacemaker. She was well toward eighty years old, of happy and sunny temperament, had always lived on a farm, and was very neighborly, sensible and discreet, an invariable and welcom'd favorite, especially with young married women. She had numerous children and grandchildren. She was uneducated, but possess'd a native dignity.
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