Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1850-01-04
Friday, january 4, 1850.
THE CLOSE OF TIE YEAR.

LIE 11IOoE vi LIE EAR.
1t is fitting, on an occasion like the pres
Cnt, to pause and survey the past as well as
to cast searching glancc into the future
Time, with its ever revolving wheels, has made
the last revolution Of the first bali of the OH
century. No space of time has ever elapsed
more pregnant with bright prospects to the
race, than the fifty years which have just sha-
ken their last sands from the untIrned glass
of Eternity. At the commencement of the
present century, there were felt on the Con-
tnent of Europe those great upheayings Of
the. masses which have oycrthrown the Palaces
of kings, and buried the paraphanaa attend
ing crowns and Thrones in a grave already
too deep for the echo of the voice of Rosur-
recton.
The Tyrants tell US, in vain, that all the ar.
dent ASPIRATIONS of the millions Of Europe have
been stiiicd by the tread Of th-ir iron heels. The
violent commotions of the millions of men whl
have manifested their obedience to God by their
resistance to Tyrants, has subsidized only to
acquire the necessary impetus to roll Oh the
car OF social and combined order which shall
ride on the tCnth wave Of harmonic and pom
ular right which is destined to sublnerrc and
engulph the ennobled and selfish few sudden
ly and forever. Men, short-sighted in vision
are accustomed to think that Il first defeat. is
defeat frreyer. Seven times and again have
men been defeated in attempts to gain long
lost and almost forgotten rights, but the day
OF restitution is to comc-the ever revolving
wheel brings the masses to the places from
whence the robber lord has driven them.
France has made great progrcss in civil lib
erty tile last half century. although we can see
that there is more for her to gain, and although
the hopes and wishes Of the patriots of Europc.
have been overwhelmed i'll sea of trouble and
disaster Though Sardinia, and Sicily and Rome
and Western Germany and Hungary have Weld.
ed successfully to the traitor.buying gold and
powerful arms of their despotic enemies, vet
Is the fire of liberty not qucnchcd 1t Is rakcd
up indeed for a short night but It's glowing en-
bers will shine and blaze, and when the appropri-
ate morning comes, it will burn with fury that
the foods Of dcspotsm will moi then be able 10
qucnch.
What the last half Of the 10th century is to
devclope, is still concealed in The sybil leaves of
the future. Yet we are confident from the an
pcnrnncc of the oycrhangng sky orthc political
aud social ornament, that il is the mission of the
inhabitants Of the world who live from 1880 +,
1900, to usher IN the great and abiding doctrines
OF radical democracy, and reveal TO the unsatjsti-
ed desires OF men, the full fruilon of the pcacc.
plenty harmony, and happiness which shall
spring from development of all the faculties in
possession OF the race, as they shall be manifcs-
ted In the workings of wisdom and love in the
combined orders Of men.
The year just closed has indeed been year of
sadness and gloom to thousnnd sorrow stricken
hearts whose friends have been fclenllcsslymow-
cd down by the dcsolating scytho Of the pes,i-
lcncc. Pale Death has knocked alike at the M
loces of the rich and the cottages of the moor
lie has gathered in the sarno unsetisicd rrnyc
the EX-Prcsdent OF great nation and the forgot
ten outcast from lar-oif and unknown land.
The great lcycler has been busy in his wo k.
and from the shore Of the Atlantic is the ton of
inc sierra NeNGCa---tVery WlCrc the sandy
mound of new made grave bears Witness both
to his industry and his dosolating march. But
1t Is not proper for Us to munnur or repinc AZ the
operation OF Coils undertaking and mscrutabIe
laws. he docth all things well. and the true
cmid of God viii rather rejoice as he reflects on
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