Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1853-01-06
CARRIERS ADDRESS
TO THE PATRONS OF THE
FREMONT WEEKLY FREEM AN,
JANUARY /, 1853.

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; As man and the earth grows gray,
For Six thousand years are well nigh gone,
Since the sun shone on this world
} A sbapeless mass without form and void,
From the hand of its Maker hurled.
III.
But form was given, and shape, and strength
And the Earth was the home of men,
And scenes both curious and dark, and wilt
Have come and have gone since then.
And matter for sport and matter for grief,
AS man has been master or slave,
Has sure been enough, to occupy well,
Poor mortals this side of the grave.
But farwell now to dead old Past,
And its records, time worn and dim,
We've enough to think of the year just gone
Without thinking just now of him.
And while the sound of a knell is heard
And the chant of the newborn year,
Let us think of the deeds of old so
! While in view of his frozen bier.
Now we speak of mighty deeds,
Such as needless mortal heads;
For many such we have passed through,
In the rare old days of so,
There were many meetings of old and young
Religious, political songs were sung,
And speeches for bunkum, and speeches fol
pelf,
By worn out candidates laid on the SHELF
All in the incest confusion.
There were party meetings, and party broilS-
Leaders all grabbing to sieze the spoils,
Promising this and denouncing that,
All for the sake of the offices fat,
Which the dear people most safely kept,
And with a vigilance that never slept
Guarded the prize till their eyes were dim,
With ghosts of Gardiners and Galpbins grim,
And were led to wrong conclusion.
And elections came, and elections went
Political circulars out we're sent
To gather the clans of the party now,
To meet at their affairs, and VOW a vow,
To fight together-to quit private broils,-
To be bound together by party spoils:
"A powerful boud,'' as an ancient said,
Blessings fall on his hoary head,
For s';ch all honest assertion.
But let that pass, for the deed was done
The battle as fought and the vict'ry won.
: ONE were elected and some were not,
And among the latter was General Scott.
Well! he was certainly "done up brown"
And once more caught with his "breeches
down;"
And ever since that last sad defeat,
Whiggery's lips have hung down "a feet"
At It's most awful dispersion.
And Pierce and King have taken the helm.
Four years to guide this republican realm;
But principles live, though Party be slain
Truth crushed to earth must soon rise again"
And the ladies too, they have went it strong,
And in conventions, both loud and long
Have battled for "Bloomers' and "Womans
Rights,
And the privilege of seeing home, sparkling
nights
Some fancy young man, not yet out of his
teens,
Troubled with love, but more troubled with
"gi eens;'
And for carrying out one of Miss Lucy's sug-
gestions,
To have the rich privilege of popping the
questions,
And leading to Hymen's,altar,
Him, whom the womens' rights leaders have
voted;
And proofs both from men and the good book
we're quoted,
To prove that US men are but pitiless shores, "
Fit but to do only menial chores;
And that they themselves are superior crea
lures.
Superior in mind as they sure are in features.
And they think themselves able to guide the
State,
Without the assistance of hel per or mate,
Who may be of the masculine gender.
Usurp their lost power recover their rights
Put down their husbands, and put on the
tights.
o! when this woman's Millennium comes,
And women shall rule in our councils and
homes,
Then, won't they go on ''bender ?"
Certain they will, and who shall say nay?
When the old cat is gone, then the mice can
all play
Won't the men then be led by a halter I?
Yet the ladies dear we must ever fancy,
Although some Julia, or Jane, or Nancy,
May think it quite right to wear Bloomers and
so so.
Let them dress as they please, don't they
please as in toto?
And we're bound to love them as sure as
we're born,
For aint they all angels? Oh yes! lin horn: }
But we hope the ladies will take no exceptions,
For, to tell the plain truth, we're not used to
deceptions,
And would not them now wish to fatter.
Yet some are thus bad, and they one day
will grieveit,
To say SO, and sometimes dear souls they be-
lieve it.
3ut pardon US now if a truth we dare utter
;aw you er'er an Angel eat bread and butter,
Iut now, Just to make some obsurdties clear,
LAST year was anciently called the Leap Year.
And 'mong the great many that hunted "a lark
Didn't some few take "a leap in the dark
In some matr monial matter.
his marrying and giving in marriage is