The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1859-12-31
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sxTURDxE DECEMBER 81. 1859.


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WI have come to the close Of am
other year, and the day very properly
calls up reflections asto its history. Time
flies swiftly, defying Iinteruption; but
he writes his scroll y he flies, and that
scroll Is indelibIe.
Abroad, war for atime spread havoc
md desolation over the fairest fields Of
IEarope. The memories 81 our own ne
we're called up in Italy. But the cards
were in the wrong hands. The cry
was liberty, but despots held the
trumps. The bloody fields Of SoIferino
and Magenta made many widows and d
fen marshals; but Italy Is still ip bond
age. That great war has abruptly
ended, which many anticipated would
have revolutionized all Europe, and
even beyond that political boundary.
r. the struggle indeed pastP has the
storm forever subsided2 Or is there
but d brief lull to the terrible tempest
Gould we look into the records Of the
coming year, We would anticipate the
renewal Of the struggle, but in other
hands. Victor Emmanuel IS King of
SARDINIA. Garibaldi i the peoples
chief; and Garibaldi Is . patriot and
[ s. ii . misnomer over yonder? dem
ocrnt. Here in America he is gener-
ally looked upon as the italian WASH
ington. The war may have ended for
the present; but Garibaldi slumbers
not; and Garibaldi Is the dreaded and
implaeabls enemy Of tyrants
CHINA 100 has had her finger ii the
war-dish. But mnltitudinous IS the
celestials are, their wars have not sp-
pearcd 70 agitate the whole world as do
those 0f other nations. Al few lombard
ments, . few running river fights, q
feW gaTriaons slaughtered, and there
the matter seems for the present 70
end. ...
.sssl s..'s s,-gss1 Psgetrs.. 2 w.
nate IN reducing her own population.
The institutions Of that country were
planted in the blood Of innocence, and
fhs Almighty arenger Of human wrongs
has in reserve for her, and already has
begun to mete ont q fearful retribu-
ton 9
IRRLANDl We almost weep when
ne think Of her. The queen Of beauty
81 all the islands Of the sea, she still
remains . yassaito 4 foreign power.
Her revolutions have hitherto failed,
because they were premature and bad
y arranged. But the day Of freedom
viii yet dawn upon Ireland, and at-
tain It's meridian too. Ireland has
many friends IN America who will yel
tell . story IN her favor.
AS for other nations, although moi
engaged IN actual war, they have be.
come universally armed neutralities
not fighting, but ready
In the UNITED STATES, political hob,
nobing has been the order Of the day
The WHIrE HorsE Is the great object
The campaign to come has great at,
fractions. Every natiye-born has j
rightto look for the honOr;and the unfor,
tunate Irish are in sack-cloth becaus.
they were moi, like jackson, landed onoul
shores two or three months before they
were born. OF the two great parties
who control the political interests off the
nation, we are Of opinion that the Re
publican takes the wiser course. Their
defeat in the last campaign seems to
have united them. The Democrats
are divided. OF all the men who
shared the Utah-parOnage Of the
White House, but three Or four have
been faithful 70 their party; Governor
Cumming, Col. Stambaugh, Gen. VIII
son, and, We believe, Dr.. Forney. The
Others have spit upon the hand that fed
them. But who is to blame? The
selections should have been jjudioiously
made. Utah petitioned for the ap-
peintmsDt Of honest men, whether
Catholic, Episcopalian, Presbyterian OF
Mormon, to tiil the federal offices.
D&ble-faced sYcophants we're .ap-
pointed in many instances, aud let the
odium settle where il belongs. Y