The Arkansas advocate., 1835-01-02
NEW YEARS ADDRESS or the ARKANSAS ADVOCATE to his Patrons.

or the Carrier of the ARKANSAS ADVOCATE, to his
  PATRONS AND FRIENDS! the Ieess year has fled Into the soundess realm of vanished ages, And its dim form is numbered with the dead, Around whose ehones the boundless rages Of dark Eternity-ye Hstory's pages Shall chronicle il, after gone After the fires, which each weak form encages' Of passion and existence shall be done And the damp grayecods shall be piled our bones upon Since las, we met you some have passed away Of our old friends, into that dark abyss Of Death and Sleep: their eyan5scent day Hath had its sunset yet we trust there IS Full many one whom old remembrances Have bound 0 with chain ot seel In love and kindness Shall we ever cease To love, respect and honor them, until The icy hand of Death cur crawling lleblood chill It is summer in wntry life
 Of toil and disconten, whene'er we meet, (As men meet sunshne,) ,)-n our constant stlle 'Gainst power and its corruption-wih the sweet Kind smile of friends It nerves the weary feet With vigor-and we rush along Even an eagle rushes, strong and feet And, the red light from bis pumes is flung, Our pages scatter truth the multitude among. Oh Liberty. thou child of many hopes Nursed in the cradle of the human heart While Europe in her gimmerng darkness groPes, Wilt thou from us, thy chosen ones depart Still be us, as thou hast been and art, The spirit which breathei 0h, teach Us still Thy arrowy truths unquaiingy to dar-- Until the yrant and oppressor reel, And all, that Freedom which they pretend to ieei' Methinks, thy Sunrise is lighting up The far horizon of yon hemisphere With golden lightning. Over the hoary top Of the high mountains see not appear The smiles of Liberty ?--while erouching Fear And Slavery perish under toerng thrones! How long, Oh Liberty! before we hear Instead of an insulted peoples moans The crushed and writhing yrans uterng their groans Is not thy spirit living still in France? Ay, and will waken in storm and fire. Earthquake amid cities and thrones will dance, And Freedoms altar be the funeral pyre Of monarchy and all his offspring dire. In England, Germany, laa Spain And Switzerland, thy spirit doth inspire The mutitude-and though full long in vain They struggle through the goom yet saverys night shall wans And shall ace sleep, while all the earth awakes' Shall slaves while on the Alpine cones, And yineclad hills of Europe brightly breaks The morning light of Libery?-Wha thrones Are worse than those which, fathers boness The demagogue would build What chains so gans As those the sef-made Heot scarcely owns Till they e deeply-til the live pains crawl Into has craven soul, who caused hmI to fall Mems freedom may be wrested from their hands, And they may uourn--bu not like those who throw Their heritage away-who clasp the bands On their own limbs, and crouch themselves and go, Like tmorous fawns to their overthrow. Shall we thus fall ?-It is not difficult
 To think that free not being To shatter down by brief hour of guilt, The edihce of Freedom which our fathers built Watch then. Distrust the who claim to love The people better than themselves Dstrust And mark them always. They would tread, above Your necks to powe-let them be accursed. Mark well the demagogue-and ye thrust Him back to his obscury again.
 Ave- tread again into their parent dust These lovers of the people. They would gain Dominion you, by Flaterys syren strain. Perhaps the Car4isr has said enough, And should not farther your time intrude- His rhyming at the best, is harsh and rough Yet he has tried. in his wayward mood And languague not intentionally rude To speak the tuih--even as the sheet he bears Weekly around, to earn his daily food. And little for the vorlds applause he cares, If you shall cheer him while his weary way he fares Others are striving one long has strven, To crowd him from your fayor-ye, if truth, Honestly spoken-and no favor given To demagoguing expressions ruth, May win applause and honor-then, in sooth. The print he bears shall still sustain its ground The Carrier shall bear, he doth, The weekly shee-Tmes circle roll around And still the ADVOCATE be Ill the vanguard found. What shall the Carrier wishl after the tongue Ifsr chesfw rdsu inc heart hasle