Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-01-04
THE BABY SPY.
Eighteen Hundred and Fiftv-oue

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The year eighteen hundred and fifty has
gone away from the present 10 join, with lis
departed hours The eternal silence o. the past
The last moment OF the half cenluy that
trembed On the balance of Time as if I'M
willing 10 follow The ages into the chambers
of their sleep, has vanished for ever; and the
second half of the nineteenth century has now
| begun to number its days upon the tablets of
incidents and events We have climbed TO
the summit number of hundred years. Be.
hind US is Il dim crowd of memories, before US
a confusedly opening dieam.
| The real, with It's stern experiences srews
tie rough path of life over which we have trod
The ideal, with It's fowery hopes, and golden
promises, brightens tie green pastures of the
future which we are impatient TO tread.
| Eighteen hundred and fifty is now no more;
| it has sunk into tie great abyss of Eternity,
to seek forever deeper and deeper place of
| forgetiulness, as the years follow it, and press
it down, by their accommodating gravitation to
oblivion.
But 1850 has not wholly left us. There re-
main the immortal ideas which were born
during It's existence; and we feel, as all pos
| terty viii, the effects Of its acts and move
men's. In 1850, red hardeJ despotsm recoiled
| upon the nations Of Europe, which, in I646
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| The yrannies that shrunk afIrighted from the
moral indignation of tie peoples, revived a.
midst The thundeYs of war; and at This moment
the European revolution seems oyerthrown
| and enchained.
Eighteen hundred and fifty is memorable as
the year in which, the Roman Ponliff, by the
| aid of the bayonets of France, nsurped the
sovereignty Of the Roman States, after having,
in 1849, abdicated his throne, and left ii to the
| Roman people, who almost unanimously de-
creed a democracy and constituted the noblest
republic that ever dignifed the annals of poll
Tics. The ponlifical sovereignty exists in the
Vatican only. The republic waits for the
'fulness of lis time" in the bosoms of hope
ful, patient people.
The war between Denmark and Schleswig
Holstein' has placed another stain upon the
annals Of the past eyentful year; and, 10 one
unacquanled with European politics, the
cause Of that unnatural struggle is mystery.
Ii is the old story Of dynastic complications
and royal ambition. 1t is the struggle of the
Duchies to maintain their old laws; and of the
Danish king to aggrandse his family at the
expense of nations independence and, free
dom.
But alas! the deepest darkest Cain mark
that has been imprinted upon tho forehead of
the year that is gone, was placed there by
American hands, under the pretext of repub-
lcan constituionaty. The Fugitive Slave
Law shall ever be remembered with shame
and SORROW as the croWnng circumstance of
human tyranny, Us the darkest act of oppres-
sion that has been conceived or executed dur
ing the half century that has Just closed.
History shall dress herself III mourning weeds,
and hang weeping over the recollection OF this
foul deed, done in the name Of liberty, as long
as human legislation has name among men:
and 1850 will also he remembered by the OPP
| pressed Ethiopian race in Canada, as heir
| Hegira-the year Of their terrified flight from
their native land; and of their direfnl suffer-
ings beside the streams of the cold northwest,
whittier they have been driven in tie name
of law, because they had dared TO assume the
manhood Of being free. They had obeyed the
impulse of liberty, that gives energy and dig
nifty 10 the character of man, and for this they
were oullawed and hunted from their naive
soil by cruel edict thai one bushes TO name
as the act of republic!
But 1850 was not altogether a year Of I'M
mitigated woes, and pains, and chagrins
There are bright beauty spots 10 be discerned
on It's brow, as we look back upon it, through.
the mists of the past.
The Grnell Expedition, in search Of Sir
John Franklin, appears beautiful mani
feslaton Of the kindred spirit of good viii, tia, :
really animates the two branches Of the great
ADglo-Saxon race; and il renders 1850 WORTHY
to obliterate the memory of 1915, when Bri,on
and American grnppled ill The slough of deals
at New Orleans.
And then the Congress al Frankfort succeeded
it with lis powerful voice for Peace; and then
the depulation 10 Denmark and the Duchies
sublimely pointed the eyes of the world ia the
same direction. And it is thitherward tina,
the eyes Of humanity are now bent. The new
moral world, with all its noble, industrial and
refmmatofy agencies, comes rising up the sky
Of the future, and promises 10 1851 glorious
name among The years
"Let us aid it all we can,
Every woman, every man,
The good time coming