Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-12-31

And seems 10 creep decrepit with his age;
Behold him when past by; what then is seen,
Buthis broad pinions. swifter than the Winds
Another year has gone, and it seems
but as yesterday, when on its first day.
we wished our readers a Happy New
Year," Some writer has said, men re-
joice when the sun has risen; they rejoice
also, when it goes down; while they are
unconscious Of the decay in their W
lives. Men rejoice on seeing the face of
a new season, as at the arrival If one
greatly desired. Nevertheless, the revo-
luton Of one season is the decay Of man.
Fragments Of driftwood meeting in the
wide ocean, continue together for q little
space-thus parents, wives, children,
friends aud riches, remain with US a short
time, then separate. Ia the year which
has past, lies have been formed and bro
ken; loves. hopes, sorrows, mirlh and
anourning, have each borne sway; The
song of the bride, and the voice of the
Bridegroom have been heard, and the
stern reaper, Death, been busy in the
great haryest-feld of life.
The past year has not been prolific in
great events. 1t has seen peace declar-
ed In the Crimea, between the great pow
ers of Edrope-the English Lion and the
French Eagles, Aoai as peacefully, side
by side with the Russian Bear, as rest
the Allied and the Russian soldiers, in
their narrow beds, beneath the walls Of
Sebastopol. Save this, there has been
no single event of absorbing interest to
the world at large, unless il be the com.
mencement of the Ocean Telegraph,
which is to cement more FIRMLY, The peace
fol bonds which unite Great Britain and
the United States.
In our own land, the mastering Of The
opposing forces of Slavery and Freedom,
The fuller development of the growing
danger from the grasPing plans of the
slave power; the exhibitions Of IFS tenn
per in Kansas; its bold defiance of all
law and right; the strange assumption of
power by the Vigilance Committee 10 Cal
i%forHis; ,he attempts 10 buy Cuba, and
conquer Central America; the election
49,
of a President, after the holly contested
canvass; the terrible losses at Sea, and
on the Western Lakes; a terribly cold
winter, and a very dry summer-these
were events which have awakened great
est interest among the citizens of the u.
nited States.
In our own quiet village, its people
have seen the opening of the c. & NJ.
Rail Road through the town; the COM
pletion and occupancy of The new High
School; the usual number of marriages.
births and deaths; the arrival of new cit
liens, and departure of old ones for the
Great West; some sickness and poverty,
but as a whole, a year of ordinary pros
perity.
And while bidding farewell TO The old,
in advance, we heartily wish to each one
Of our readers, a "HAPPY New YEAR"
The Democrat and the Kansas Fund.
The Democrat Of last week is full Of
sympathy for TIVE classes Of PERSONS
First, the Kansas settlers, who, it says,
have not received the funds subscribed
for them in The States, aud second. for
those benevolent persons who have given
their money to allesiate the suferings of
the free state men.
1T publishes a letter from J A. Har-
sey, in which he "for himself and nine
ty-nine others. complains that the funds
subscribed to 3 .Chicagosociety for Kan
sas relief, have not reached the appro
pirate destination. and t~hereppon
neighbor assumes that ali who have
subscribed for Kansas aid have been
swindled out Of their money and that no
good has been done with it.
The pretended sympathy with the
Kansas settlers will be rated at its tue
value By all who re remember how persist
enily the Democrat has denied, for a year
past, that there was any suffering in
Kansas. The paper which never pub
lished the accounts of the Border Rufis an
invasiens. which never informed its read
ers of the sacking of Lawrence, which
steadily upheld the border rufian rule.
under the name of claw and ORDER" till
The. last week Of the Presidential cam
paign. viii impose upon no oDe, by now
pretending to feel deeply for the poor
settlers. whose beuses have been burned,
whose cattle and crops have been de-
stre5es. and Fho have been, under the
Demoerstie policy, reduced TO the verge
of starvation and dePlh.
Neither do We tbiuk it will gain much
credit BY affecting TO pity those who have
given money for The aid of the settlers,
after assaiGag the Republicans so long
with eSery situpera;ion. as supporting
'Gsason" in Kansas, and r%egilins them
and the settlers. as the enemies OF the
country. il viii not be likely to iEp'se
upon any ene by crocodile tears oyer
what It calls the losses Of benevolent per.
o who have been cheated out of theii
money. The Republicans a take care
oftbeir own money. and ask no sympa'
ihy.