Washington, Monday morning, June 3, 1850, six o'clock.
MY DEAR SIR,—The "book," has arrived in parcels, the last
coming to hand yesterday. Your kindness to me is so overwhelming, that I dare
not trust myself to speak of its merits; nor have I been able to keep it in my
hands long enough to read the whole of it. Your old pupil, Mr. Edward Curtis,
now here, seized it as soon as the second part arrived, read it all, and speaks
of it with unqualified approbation, indeed, with admiration. From his hands Mr.
Ashmun got it last evening, and has it now. I shall have it again, I suppose,
in an hour or two. I remember, my dear Sir, that as I stepped into the carriage
to leave you, at your own door, you said, putting your hands together, and
looking up to the sun, "I see the scriptural argument like a path of
light." This path, you have shown to others. The attitude of slavery, in
the Old Testament, is the part I have read, and it appears to me absolutely
conclusive. How much error have you dissipated; how much shallow reasoning
exposed!
Of the book itself, I shall write you again in a few days; but now, to
matters of business.
D. WEBSTER.
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