Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-01-08
The New Year.

The commencement of new year is the pro-
per season for reflection. 1t is fitting time to
gather I'D certain hints or recoIlections Of the
world we live in, almost, after all couAterpart
of each individual Life. Someoceurrenees there
have been in the year that is just closed. that
cannot easily be forgotten. and it is natural
whilst glancipg back over the past to make new
resolutions and plans. for the future. To the
youth, flushed with the visions of hope, brighr
as that which glowed in the rapt brain OF the
artist rs ne drew forth from the canvass the beau
,y of morning clouds, reposing upon purple bill
tops kindling into glory with the raising SUM-
the opening year will have no biting frost. no
blasting storm, no cloud of despair. "To man.
hood. fully embarked upon the sea. to whom
experience has disclosed rocks, quick-sands and
whirlpools. the picture will be chastened, and
in forecasting his voyage. allowance will be
made for storms, and rnfriendly currents. Old
age looking down through the dim receding
past, reposes upon what ljes beyond the Ocean,
towhose shores he hastens, and upon whose sur
face rests the shadows of eternity. May youth
in Its hopes, manhood in its expectations. and
age in its faith enter upon and enjoy Happy
New Year. -H
The year has seen happily the conclusion Of a
desolating war. The contest which a year since
was raging in Europe. and filling the wales Of
France and England and the villages of Russia
with mourning and despair, is over. Red hand
i IL II Irsv, anI
gloomily Withdrawn from the scene. Unless
it is to break the yoke of tyranny, and restore
men their rights, may he long remain with
drawn. Yet scarcely has the struggle which
fnay be said to have begun and ended under the
walls of Sebastopol, been concluded by trea-
| ty of peace, when rumors Of approaching revo-
luton come to us from the nations of Continen-
tai Europe. Agitation throughout Italy; the
scarcely suppressed uprising ofthe Neapolitonsi
France tossing in feverish dream of mad spec
ulaticn-prccurser of crash which may in
elude a throne in the ruin it will bring; war ac-
tually declared by England against Persia; and
war threatened by Prussia against Switzerland
these are some of the events present or prom
ised which the Old Year has closed upon in the
Old World
As for our own land. ii is painful indeed TO
recall many things which have occurred. May
another year leave no similar record OF turmoil
outrage, yea of open war between freedom and
barbarism, the latter upheld and smiled upon
the executive of the American people. The
year has seen a wonderful advance in the SEN
timents of the lovers of liberty in these United
States. 1t is full of hope for our future. 1t is
pregnant with promise of time coming, free
| from the sin and shame of oppression in all the
broad land our fathers gave US, dedicated to
freedom forever. The year though it saw de-
feat for the friends of humanity in the country
at the ballot-box, saw also the first determined
stand ever yet made by them against the en-
croachments of system at war with the genirs
OF our institutions, On that ground they will
stand firmly rooted, and the foes of freedom car
never prevail against them.
The year is before US. The past is a sealed
book. In all our relations in life may we each
in our day do cur duty and the year will be
what we wish for all IS we here enter upon it
A Happy New Year.