The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1856-01-04
TIL e u n ION
AND
EASTERN JOURNAL.
frieay WorpiQg, ian. l., 1866.
Twelfth Volume. New Year.


This is the commencement of the twelfth
volume Of our paper, and the beginning Of O
new year. We wish all of our readers, with
out distinction of age, sex, or party, HAP
Ply NEw YEAR, and express the hope that al
of them may, through the year, be waited
by prosperous gales on the voyage Of life
that success may attend them in business
happiness DO theirs around the family hearth
stone, and pleasure wait upon them wher
minglipg IN the festivities of social life. TIT
Spaniards have this greeting when the New
Year comes in, May you live thousand
years and your shadow neverbc less" Thi,
is a pretty good wish because its latter brancl
seems to imply wishing to bcstow pcrenni
al youth, or a recupcrtive energy in the con
stitution which would keepsake thcmachine
Of life, make good itswear and tear and thus
make life kind of perpetual motion worth
talking about. We should not object t.
taking n lease oflifc for thousand year.
with such an understanding, nor to wishing
our readers, and all well disposed persons
like leases upon the same terms-and we re.
peat the Spanish greeting to all in the spiri
in which il is conceived.
Our paper this year we mean to make still
more worthy of support. We have COM
menced, as will be perceived, by donnine
he new dress referred to in our last, which
gives the paper respectable outward ap
pcarancc and it is our intention to make tn,
matter correspond to the manner. Weshal
give increased attention to the paper, hoping
to receive our reward in constantly length
ening subscription list.
We commence the year in good spirits
Through the darkness which obscures TIT
political horizon we discern the twilight o
approaching day-the day of freedom, fol
which the patriot works and waits-dqpair
ing not, but confident that although thcrt
may be checks in the progress Of truth tha1
sometimes her forward march may be slow
still it is onward. We are no pupils Of thai
school of moralists, who believe that thu
world is constantly growing worse, or that al
civilization becomes higher, men increase il
vice and corruption. There are times wher
there would seem to be grounds to Justify
such an inference, but looking steadily back
and noting the advances and retrocessions
for progress like the wave of the sea is per-
pctually approaching and rcceding, of any
great truth in morals, politics, or science
the error of this false supposition will b
discovered. There is great deal of Hunkcr.
ism we know, yet to be killed out, but the bat
teries which are turned against it, are heavy
and cannot fail of doing good service in it
determination.
This year is the Presidential year. Hav.
ing good deal of faith in the old fashioned
merits of Washington, Jefferson, and their
compecrs, we shallsupporta goodman for the
presidential Office, who stands upon the good
old republican platform they constructed.
Who that man will be, time will determine.
Our paper has always supported the union
of these States as the surest guard for the
safety of liberty and in its support it will be
found hereafter. twill not fail in dcnounc-
ing all attempts to subvcrt it whether made
at the South or North by men who claim
openly that slavery is national blessing,
and must be extended, or who, while declar-
ing it to be a curse, support measures to ex-
tend it, or advocate doctrines under which it
may be extended.
But not to extend remarks upon these
points. We did not commence to make
promises, though we have made some reso-
lutions which we have not expressed, rcla-
tive to improvements in our paper, which
we hope to carry out. The new year is n
good time to make good resolutions, we
trust that great many good ones will be
made, and most of them kept during the
year. The poor printer is not the only one
cellcd on to make them. Every man who
has been slothful in business, or otherwise
culpable should make them, and then study
to live up to them. five live up to the
resolutions we have made in regard to our
paper, our subscribers will have no reason
to complain that they do not get the worth
of their money-or will they be unwilling
to say good word for us to their neighbor
who wants good papcr-one that will
give him in addition to correct political
principles, the earliest news, and most val
liable information in the wide field of busi-
ness, morals, and politics.