Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1856-01-03

Merry old "Christmas" and "New Year" are here,
With plenty of snow, good health and good cheer
ST. Nick has come down with abundance OF traps,
And We drink to the health of the jolly old chap,
And hope he may come ev'ry year and still see
Good cheer and good health for you and for me.
For the first time in life, we take from the Press.
And present to our friends New Years AddreE-
According to custom all the world over
Since printers were known--we boys IKE lover
Want something to say to our patrons that's civil;
In return, ask mite for the printers poor devil
So much for New Year. Now then for a story
Ofthings that's happen'd in the daysjust gone
How Anglo France has crown d herself with gory(D
In battling down Sevastopol so strong,
And gained no laurels only death full CORY
To thousands ofbrave soldersfghtng for the wrong,
Whose names will never reach our ears In story,
Or wake the minstrel's lay in famous song.
Old Russia-tho' she dug the graves of hundreds
OF brave magyars to keep Austria play her game
OfTyranny-yet at last she's bluudered
Into an unlucky war; tho its all the same
To her-she cam OF be out numbered
In slaves and soldiers, the last well known to fame
But vel hope she'll whip old France and England,
For they deserve it. England's hands are red
With blood of millions, in that fair warm sun land
Hndostan, by her hireling soldiers shed;
And while pretending to protect the Turk
Only in his sovereignty, she means to have
The Turkish Empire cut up like fat pork
And parcelled out for her and Frances slaves.
Far better now that old Constantinope
Should fall into the rude MuscOvites hands,
And ope the black sea to the trade Of people
Who'd send there commerce from all other lands,
Than see old England-hoar with crime and murder
Adj it to her immense ill-gotten gains;
For should old Russia fail, all law and order
Would soon be banished from all Europe's plains.
nth Tit's ho-rid devastation
Would spring to liz, between the Iyran' fo"en'
And sn-..d afar grim death and dcsolstion
;rho, bon r~h, leach N = blessed land of ours:
R.c,usc, nor Pruss' nor Al, s!ran nor rrenchman
But would come in to share the b .'ry sPons
OF Turkey severed; As a bloody H. 'Ecn,n"h
Carves the game that's taken in the to''s
Poor France, poor France. what o contra dal.cc
Is the figure her people are making!
Quick lively tune, night, morning and noon,
no odds whether sleeping or waking
She ca ne 'er take her ease, or ever have peace
Unless sor;,c heads she isbreaking
OF friends or IF foes-headlOng she goes,
While Liberty's heart is 2chihg'
Fair Italy is fairly crushed
BY Austria's Tyrant King;
And Austria has never blushed
At any bloody thing.
Oh. for Bonaparte once more,
To smitc her in days of wore,
To hurl her tyrant kingdom down
And give to Liberty her crown,
Poor Mexico, and bloody SPAIN
Both still alike-both full Of pain
And inward bruises-sore the strife
That's wearing out their weary life.
Intestine feuds and Revolution
Each day brings forth new evolution
OF some new General-Noble-Don-
Who means to have things carried on
To suit his notion; otherwise
He means to RevOutionize
The Government and bring about
Neic things-the old are all worn out.
But bloody works can prosper,
AS Spanard. to their cost will find.
The Cuban massacre makes Us foster
A little hatred-not the kind
That whets knife to kill a foe
But ola Yankee dispositions;
Which, you know, is never slow,
At territorial acquisition.
XII
Thus while the world has been 'topsy turvy,'
We too have been in bit of hobble;
The Abotionists sure have acted quite scurvy