The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1845-01-16
For the Voice of Freedom.
NEW YEAR THOUGHTS.
Pittsfeld, Jan. 4, 1915.


Awake my thought! bid memory rise to greet the
newborn year;
Bid past nisdeeds the tribute bring of repentant
tear;
Let high resolves and noble aims thy future actions
move;
Be truth thy search with all thy zeal-thy only
passion love,
With mingled emotions we hail the
ushering year. Very pleasantly and joy
fully with us has passed the year; whose
months and weeks; and days; and hours
have gone 10 mingle their numerous
scenes; with the myriads of years that
have preceded them. Not so pe!chance
has it glided along with every one. Who
eau tell? the broken hearts-the disap-
pointed hopes-the crushed asPirings--
the unsatisied longings of spirit that have
been passed unheeded by, by the gilIy
and thoughlless sons of earth during the
short period of three hundred and sixty
five days, whose requium is now sung +;
and 10 which we so gayly, and unthnk>
ngIy give the parting hand. Aod shall
thy sacred moments, opening, year be pro.
famed by sacfiIegious man? Shall the 70
tary Of pleasure commence anew his
course OF ruin? Shall the opprrssor Of
weakness sill continue TO break down
aud lrample in the dust his brolher2 Shall
The buyer and seller of the souls of men,
slil Jorge chains, and lacerate The bodies
of tender infants and feeble women g.
Shall proud man, clothed in little briet
authority transact such deeds before high
heaven as make the angels weep2 For
bid it God of truth and justice Ares
the devotee Of folly in his course! Say
The hand of the oppressor Let the trader
in human flesh cease from his nefarious
business; eau Sc those that are in authority
10 revere the tru,hl Emancipate the peo-
pie from the thralIdom of superstition and
man worship that has so long para yzed
The minds of millions, and LEI the freed
captves soar aloft on the wings of truth
aud reason, and expa.ate with inexplica>
bic delight, in the beatfc regions of en-
ighened intellect, and the gIoriors frui-
lion of moral perfection Stop, thou
dreamest! all are not prepared-the wheel
of society will continue to revove on its
axisas heretofore. Even now the jing ling
of the merry sounding bell greets thy ear;
showing that the worshipper Of the God
tess have commenced anew their phantom
chase. Every zephyr that rises from the
sunny land Of the south bears TO the ears
of the God OF Sdbaoth the walls Of the
oppressed Humanity will yet weep over
the d'abolica deeds OF her misguided sons.
But during thy fleeing cycle in despite Of
every opposing circumsance-Trulh
shall gain ground mighty revolutions
shall convuIse The nations the powers
that be shall be shaken. The judgment
OF renovation is set--ihc fires of nvestiga.
ton are already kindIed--lhe books of his
nature are opened before man. Upon
their contents shall the living sentence be
passed--the death {and belly of intoler-
ance and bigotry shall soon deliver up the
dead carcasses Of superstition and idolatry
| that are in Them. Through the heaven oil
regenerated society shall flow the healing
stream of peace--upon its banks shall
grow the tree of neutrality-suspicious. shall
bear the fruit of Iove-and happiness unal-
! loved shall crown the labors of redeemed
man. Then will be brought TO pass that
saving; "lhe wilderness and the solitary
place are glad, and the desert blossoms as
the rose" G. w. w.