Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1845-1851, 1846-01-03
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New YEARS. Address
or THE CARRIER OF TIE
SEMI-WEEKLY INDIANA STATE SENTINEL.
Coon GENTLEs, once again we come,
Fer time Is always fleeing,
Again present our annual song
To you our verse greeting.
To time now rcckond with the past
| We must add one year more.
For eighteen hundred forty-fye
5 gone after torty-foul.
IT is with our life much like the year
In early childhood we appear
Mere useless creatures, scarcely able
Fen for our little wants To grabbe;
And were I not for the friendly care
OF those who liy'd before us,
In Deaths dark vault we'd disappear
The clods would be thrown Ger US
Just so I is with the newborn year:
All nature : cold, and dull, and drcar,
And had we not III Autumn sav'd
Enough TO eat and drink
We'd be like Natures self, il lu
sorry fix, think
The SUMNER comes, and represents
Man IN the prime of life
Then man IL all his strength appears,
And fruits aud flowers are rife;
Then AUTUMN comes - the time when men
Gather III Ill their stores
or corn aud roots, because they'd spoil
10 leave them out of doors.
But AUrumN's like an aged man
Who's lived beyond his prime:
The sere leaf falls, - his locks are grey
Each bears the marks of time.
WINTER succeeds, and then the year
Draws quickly towards its close.
No more the fields their fruits produce
The, re whcned DER with SHOWS
Just 50 it Is with aged man
His earthly work IS done,
In weakness he exists awhile
Then, like the year, he 5 gone
Now does it not excite your great surprise
10 hear Us news-boys gravey morazc!
And yet why should we not :! II is quite the 90
For all folk to be moral now, you know;
And We who carry news, dispense, I is clear,
Lots of morality throughout the year,
And feel ourselves 10 be about as able
Ethics TO teach, az many men who gable
About the matter still, from dav To day.
The difference Is, they get the better pay.
II in morality you wish to grow
Take IN the papers there instructions flow,
TO each adapted. whaisoecr his state,
Or wise, or simple or lively Sedlte,
Or blest with wealth, and Of LIES good things sure
Or, like your humble servants. rather poor.
Nor say the newsboys occupation s van;--
Tie trudgcs through the heat, the frost, the rain
For you, all clad IN SNOW he braves the storm,
That you may read Of politics, reform,
OF measure, good and bad that may be brewing
In legislative halls, and all that : doing
Wheree this earth proud man has set his foot on;
Yon also find the price of beef and mutton,
OF sugar taow, flour, butter, beer =
y ou find that this l. cheap and that is dear:
In short, whaic'cr s worth knowing upon EARTH
The carrier brings the news on I TO your hearth
Long, long ago, newspapers were made,
certain Prophet we told, thus SAID:
"Nlany shall run 10 and fro
ain tn earth. time have ceased,
"And (thr ugh that means of course I is meant)
knowledge shall be increased"
Now reader, 1t our views,
Tins text refers To- carriers Of the news
And We must be important folk, you know,
When Prophets spoke of US 50 long ago.
For who besides our elves runs up and down,
DiiliIsing know ledge throughout cvry town.
knowleds c # what cur friends and foes are doing
knowledge IN short, of all that S worth the knowing
But, gentle reader, we are not such elves
To say too much in favor of ourselves,
And haply you might have wish TO hear
Some Renaissance Of Tie by-gonc year.
Well, I was year like other years, we find
Mark'd with some facts affecting humankind
1t found our Legislature, sedatc,
Engaged III solemn and profound debate
On questions grave, connected with the State.
Senator to Washington to send,
The Wings strOvc much, but could not gain their end
The Demos said, mo, thank We" They were right
10 put til election of, and send up Bright.
And ., may Jesse ID. credit prove
In the great Assembly, to the State we love
The Seasons and went, as I would appear,
Much as they do III ev'ry other year.
But, when the AUTUMN came, ii was so hot,
Disease prevai'd the country round wot;
Death tried his best good citizens TO kill,
But be was hailcd by the Doctors skill
They and Jack Frost together have aaycd
The sickness We wish the Doctors paid
For Doctors, if they Kill, or if they cure,
l.ise u, are best pleas'd when their fee is sure
Mexico made boast, some time ago,
And puckered up her mouth her teeth to show,
And SAID, ''You Jonathan, you shan't annex, rs
= If you own'd IT, our fine country, Texas
- For Texas Is place which can't spare;
" You must not set foot. d. We mind me, there.
Z. If you attemp. TO take from right
" Depend upon it, Jonathan, well fight"
Jonathan very cooy thus replied:
AT all your threats I'm not much terrified,
% If fight you will, you'll get into mess:
May, fight your hardest, we'll fight too, guess
." For, If the Texans viii with us unite,
TO say they shall not, would not b. Peslitc,
. Besides, we've nearly closed negotiation,
And all our gus 90 strong for annexation"
Mexico from her threatnlng tone came down.
And now fair Texas we may call
Far westward lies a region, passing far,
Whose shores wasd by mild Pacifc's waves
finer country, travellers declare
No mountains bound, no no ocean lares
There must We plant our stars and stripes so gay
There must the Sons of Freedom make their home
If England deem that there she'll have the sway,
And If she'll fight for Z, why then let her como -