Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-01-01
THE NEW YEAR.

With this day, begins the business and the
pleasure of new year. With some, it will be
devoted to the squaring of accounts, the settle
ment Of quarrels, and the repentance of sins
Others viii find in it an appropriate and benef-
cent season of enjoyment, from the fact that
the old year has been generally SO prosperous,
and that the new one. promises to be much
more SO. The fragments of fortunes that had
gone up like balloons and collapsed in the air,
during the perilous year of 1857, are beginning
to be recovered, ard our hills and valleys,
which were for a while silent, are becoming
musical again with the humming of successful
industry. Property has not recovered its
buoyancy; house lots are provokingly low;
the hopes and schemes of many of us are still
under the darkest Of clouds. But there is a
margin, for, at least, a memorandum of cour-
age, III the standing promise of a good time
coming, and in the fact that that gold is purest
which has passed fiery trial Therefore, we
renew the salutation of the seasonal HAPPY
New YEAR to all those fortunate people who
are our readers, and to the rest of mankind,
who ought to be.
The old year-if we may generalize its re-
suits in a paragraph-has been a very COM
mon-place affair. We have had the usual de-
velopments of knavery and crime; the period
ical-casualties to life and limb; the customary
discoveries of science and triumphs of art; the
established roll of rascality among public men
and over all, and above all, full catalogue Of
good deeds shining in a naughty world The
only occasion on which the surface of the world
has been disturbed, was when that unfortunate
agglomeration of gutta-percha and copper, call
ed the cable, for short, was sunk to the bottom
of the sea. For little while, the world threw
aside its rutches, and leaped exulting like the
bounding roe. Everybody had a song in his
moutll--an epithalamium over the marriage of
the two worlds. The most brilliant editorials
were written on the great event of the century,
which We fear will not be appreciated till the
judgment day. We were promised the luxury
of snow in dog-days and of lilies in November
An immediate impulse was to be given to the
hardware business, especially in the depart
nlent of pruning-hooks and ploughshares. But
our expectations were destined to be early
blighted. While the continents were blazing
With exultation, the poor cable, down among
pc fishes, was gasping with faint accents of
IN. And when we recovered our equilibri-
the poor thing was quite dead. With this
eption, our sailing has been upon summers
with some squalls, but no great storms
viii be remembered in history. Happy it
hat in the mystery and benefcence of that
violence, which over-rules the destnies and
fates of men, the events which we are ac-
pmed to reckon evil are the essential in
~ 6nfeIrtalities of progress, and the abundant
contributors to the worlds welfare.
AT the suspicious beginning of this new
birth of time, to one who believes in the i'm
perishable virtue of the human heart in the ul-
Ultimate triumph of virtuous principles, and in
ID neyer-failing benevolence of Almighty
JGod, there is every cause for encouragement
I and hope. What if vice still runs like river
in the purleus of our social estate? What if
crimes of individuals and of States seem to
I thcken about us like cloud What if oppres-
sion still lifts its naughty and defiant head, and
Pshakes its invincible locks in the face of a
Fmid world The sacred instinct of reform
A left We still cherish that hatred of wrong
Wing which every year developes itself in just
US, and drives the wrong-doer to conceal
ment and disguise And, in the growth of
political and moral sentiment against tyranny
Of every kind, manifesting itself through all
theAoracles Of public opinion, and terrifying
tself in every demonstration at the ballot box,
pc read the prophesy of the destruction Of
hat system of villainy and crime which hangs
pun our interests, our morality and our Chris
faith, like the leaden cloaks of which
ante speaks, on the weary tenants of Male
plge. There are days of joy, and there are
ys of wrath. There are seasons for build
K up, and there are seasons for destruction
the economy of nature, there is place for
nerva, and place for Nemesis. 1t is part
haf task, to direct the blows of the avenger
yainst the evil things which somehow or other
nd their way into the world. There has been
lace prepared for image breakers, as well
image makers. Those who are poor build
$, may be the best of destroyers. Their
ices are complemental. They could no
pre- live apart, than the Siamese twins By
labors of both together, with cautious
nds, and conscience their guide, the world
by yet be fashioned into harmon " We are
lat point to day, at which they should cal
ate their course and "take new start in the
rid"
IN ExpIRATTON or A YEAR oftan hr;nos