Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1856-01-03
& HAPPY NEW YEAR

of mankind, Old Time for 1855, went
cut with terrible strugglc-gathering
around him snow and ice, covered with
boar frost for funeral pile, he seemed to
pass into state Of collapse that left the
surface devoid of all life for days before bis
hour come, and passed away like victim
of malignant cholera, Well, he has seen
enough during the past year to make him
shudder, and the blood freeze in his veins,
and he has witnessed as strang things IA
the sun ever shone upon.
He has seen an alliance of England and
France, which the great Emperor Napole-
on said could never take place except. to keep
Russia from Constantinople, and even that
alliance would ultimately lead to the expul-
sion from India by, those same Russians
Napoleon was right, doubtless, ard we shall
see. He has seen carnage, suffering and
death; grinding ambition about Sebastopol
to make good men weep and hypocrltical
professions in Albion and Gallia that disgust
all honesty. He has seen Turkey lauded
for her generosity to Kossuth, and Russia
making the Black Sea useful-which it
never was to England before, and western
Europe bubbling with internal commotion
from oppression banded to-not to protect
the independence of Turkey-but open
safety valve for the escape of the gases
that would explode themselves, and with
a hope to get the oyster and leave Turkey
and Russia the she'll.
He has seen the gaze begun that will
divide Turkey in Europe bet"seen Russia
and the western Powers, and make I-"rkey
in Asia the outposts for the struggle vet to
come on the sands of Hindoostan first and
on the plains of Syria last, which wipes
England from tho map of nations. and
and beams on Russia the light of civiliza-
ton.
He has seen Japan opened to foreign
trade and her curiosities and valuable
productions sent to the marts of the
west. He has: seen Chin. to tering TO
a change Of Dynasty, which will open
the empire to the industry and completion
ofwestern genius. He has seen the ice
bound nerth penetrated to the open sea a
round the pole by Capt Kane, and the fate
of the noble and long lost Sir. John Frank
lin revealed.
He hiss seen the seed sown for a great
and mighty republic in Australia, and the
wilds of Central America passed by free
men Of the north, who will make it Gar
den of Eden from whence sweetness and
beauty and delicious luxury will flow to
the uttermost part of the Earth.
He has seen blood stained Mexico pass
through another fiery ordeal and stand
erect once more under new government,
TO view the devastation around her, and
try once more to hold her place among the
nations.
He has seen our own beautiful land
blighted and cursed by the temporary
reign Of fanaticism and blood-Freedom
wrested from the hands of brothers by
brothers-and he has seen that fanaticism
crushed by the might of truth, and the ia
evitable result of natures laws.
He has seen the strength of free govern
ment te ted to the utmost by all the ele-
ment of discord, and beheld it rise superior
TO the giant strength, that aims to crush it
and he looked with hope upon the passing
cloud of strife, that it might never return.
He has seen the steps taken to unite the
Atlantic and ss,siAc by iron bands. over
which commerce will ride in triumph and
shout rejoicing thro' the wild plains and
amid the snow-clad mountains, so long "
ing in natures proudest silence. FARE
WELL old '55. The world may never see
anothery year so eventful and changing, and
we hope we shall all live TO see your sue
cessor. now so gleeful and young, laid away
OF the and Of ic raca