Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1853-01-06
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Gladness and mirth, with hope and festive cheer,
Proclaim a welcome to the Newborn Year,
Plenty and health and happiness it brings
And brightest promise o'er the future filings.
Let us, while thus auspicious dawns the new,
The memories of the bye-gone year review,
Marx well its wisdom, and its foIlies trace,
What good aserns 1t, and what sins disgrace.
Safe throsgh the war of party we have passed,
It's fierce contentious are allayed at last;
The foes to order. enemies of right,
Conspired together in one common fight
"Progress'-their watchword chaos Cor their end,
Havoc and plunder as their means attend.
Agrarian, Fire-eateF, and Fanatics,
Red Republicans, Flibusters,---ail erratics---
All things discordant raised general cry
To raise the ignobIe, and abase the high.
They won the day, and let them have the field,
To law aDd numbers, Wings! you ever yield.
Courage and onward all your armcr wear,
IT'S Clay himself who bids you ''ne'er despair.''
In after-time, when perils threat the State,
That potent spirit still shall guide its fate,
And once again when summoned to the fight,
You then shall conquer with his tomb in sight.
But far greater peril TO the State
Than factiOus contests and fierce party hate,
To menace order and our race, began
When Women rose against the ''rights of Man -
'Sing Heavenly Muse, in what Inflated hour
Sprung the fierce strife, from what offended power,
When lovely woman threw aside her brooms,
The distaf banished-seized the pantaloons,
And armed in "BloomeF'' sounds to dire alarms
OF war, and throws her babies from her arms.
So loud the tumult---and so ragged the fight
That man was fain to yield to "woman's right
To tend her "small ones' with bis fond caresses,
And elothe himself in madam's cast-off dresses.
While she---in grave conventions to preside
Forsakes the duties Of the hresiGe--
To teach the world how abler she by far
Than man, to guide the Senate and the bar.
Our own dull town---so far behind the age
Caught the infection of this female rage,
And do ctors feared, in agony of neart,
The fair ones---rivals in the "bealing art"
But all these dangers now have disappeared,
And woman gentle is no longer feared;
With this new-yeaF, in triumph has began
"The Age of Reason, and the Rights of Man."
Our stump orations, TO the people tell
The glorious mission, which we must fulfill;
''War with all nations p'---"every land is ours -
"No pent up Utica contracts powers'-
"Homes for the homeess',--"for the landIess land p
This is the course that Progress does command;
But these, and such as these, have had their day,
They did their work. and now have passed away.
Such quackish notions having run their race,
We hope that healthy ones will take their place.
In the past year, the whole republic mourned
The best and ablest of her statesmen gone.
The giant minds, who loved her long and well,
Whose lives her best and brightest history tell.
BOth---fulI of honors, to the grave went down,
And grateful millions cherish their renown.
Their names and virtues---monu uments shall stand
The rich inheritance of their native land;
To them point with pride---their works, and fam
Their country's genius, 10 the world proclaim.