New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-01-04
THE MONTHS AHEAD.

Eighteen hundred and hfy.sg is now fairly launched,
her sails set watches hxed and the beginning to
whien about her PROV, with increasing speed she
dashes from port into the broad tumultuous sea that lies
between her havens Of departure and repose y vas
a gallant launch, and less glorious departure
sail after another aook out from the yards and
beea with the strong breeze that first gave her mo
ton There clouds the HORIZON which may gather
into tenpests there is thick scud flying aloft which
may naugurate storm but behind and piercing through
eloudwrack and storm, We can see sunshine anu .he
promise favorng breezes as waited along the shp
Of Columbus when they skrted the lowying SHORES u
the golden Azores pushed the prows of Balboa Wheh
he looked down with all his wondering men from .he
heights of Panama and saw the waters OF the P!aoiu
cifc mapped out before him
AZ was well and truly said BY Patrick Henry We have
but one light by which our be guided and that
s the light Of experience Our Judgment OF to-nerfow
and the many subsequent that 81 " maRe up
the great hereafter, be properly formed only from
the history yesterday and its predecessors Our udg
ent must take experience for Its master and work
ont the problem in accordance with its teachings So,
OF the year that is chrysalis we opine only
from what we know Of other years. that, having passed
through the same stage Of preliminary being have
emerged at last into full fe with every wing in motion
every pulse at play.
Years are like the hazards the fortunes and the
results of their being. Every luxury at the cradle may
end in pine coffin and charity burial Poverty,
wants. at tho outset is like to attain competence at the
close. Our richest and monarchs Of Change have
sprung from nothngwithout ancestors without fortune
Our most solid and profitable houses have had their birth
capital less than any present clerks hire So it is
in all things-manual intellectual spiritual The great
law progress which keeps in their spheres and
the whole armament in place. applies to the least well
the largest to the blade Of grass we'll the orbit
Of the Great oaks from little grow while the
oaks themselves return to the dust whence they sprung
The Of little things if properly managed is the cradle
of great shall rise fortunes empires
whence history itself shall be horn So, in the puerty
Of the may lie the of thought and execution
which after ages shall hail. and which shall be erected
great pyramids whose tops will hold up the heavens
We, who now are, have new leaf in the ledger of
time opened before US, which, when closed, shall be
golden with the glory Of our deeds, or blurred and
blotted with misdeeds to extent which no time
can efface fundamentally IT is lined and
PACED for brilliant chapter than any of its prede
The pen OF time has already dated it, and the
four first pages inscribed What is the inscription
How will it to those stern judges who await its finale
and sit in than literary censorship upon it's
ton
is natural fitting that hope should reign over the
initiation Of the New Year but she should to
her assistance judgment and with
out which abe is ostjudgment what to do and reaolu
ton to it. The duality Of these twain, when merged
in complete individuality, makes men, makes history
and is omnipotent little lower than the angels They
deites Of kindly presence; who when sincerely
invoked lend their aid to the seeker and act
powerful and solvent insurance company than
be among any those whose charters errene
and finite They make great resolves, great deeds good
will, good performance and place immortality as crown
on the head of the deserving. r.s...
1T was an oden custom of those who went down to the