Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1860-01-07
Communicated.
THE NE w YEAR.

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Let our situation in life be as il may,
whether We are young or cid. rich or poor
merry or gay, Or otherwise whether the
old year, now rolled forever away from us,
s'rewed our pathway with flowers and
made US to exult in peace, prosperity and
plenty, or in the Providence Of God we
hive been made to travel on the prickly
thorns Of adversely. No matter. Should
not ours be the song Of gratitude The
car Of Time moves gradually and with
rapidity. and soon will carry US to the
brink Of Jordan. when her pillows must
be passed, and ours will be world OF
spirits.
In view Of this, is not the commence
ment Of the new year mos, appropriate
time to form good resolutions and lay good
plans for the future, and keep them and
carry them out2 If this course were
rightly persisted in, what an amount of
expense would be saved, and what vast
amount of pain and suffering would be
avoided. The grog shops which now dis
grace our town and Villages, and pour
their burning lava over the country, would
be abandoned and converted into some.
thing useful and beneficial The besotted
and bloated drunkard would them return
to the rational and rejecting person. The
distressed woman, whose face is furrowed
by poverty, trnuble and sorrow, OCCASION
ed by the inebriate husband, would now
be lit up by smiles and cheerfulness. The
many young men now lounging about and
becoming prodigal, would be engaged in
some remunerative business. To our
townsmen and country farmers, ] say
emphatically-may this be happy year.
May our farmers enlarge their farms, and
others open up new ones, for where can
we find richer, more productive, and
pleas,anter lands to cultivate on the foot
stool Of God, than the rich alluyial bot
toms of the Missouri 2 Then turn up her
virgin soil, boys; use temperance and com
mon industry, and will guarantee a lux
uriaat harvest--tor the Bible, book divine,
whose treasures are precious says-"The
hand of the diligent maksth rich" And
who among the pent up farmers in tie
east, burthened with heavy rents and re-
pairs, aud all others who are willing to
take hold of the plow handles aud not
look back, who will volunteer now, while
land and good situations can b. obtained
At low figures. and assist in develop ping
the vast riches that now Law hid in the
soil Of the beautiful prairies surrounding
Sngeant's Bluffs--vhich place by the bye
is the location OF an institution Of lear
ming, under the care of the NJ. 4. Church
But to the subject Townsmen who are
employed in some lauiab!e enterprise,
psrsevere you will conquer, never fear
Remember one and all, this is to be an
eventful year-a Chief Executive mast by
oar assistance be chosen look we'll to your
ballots
But what shall say to the la lies. Here
my pen stops for wan. of appropriate Ian
guage to place them in that position in
society of which they are worthy, must
borrow tho language Of the dead-bu,
whose memory will forever remain vived
ia the heart Of every true American citi
zsn. The Hon. John Quincy Adams---in
his poetry describing the quaitie, of II
good wife, to the ladies OF an Eastern city
he said Let our ladies Especially The
UNMARRIED strive to pattern
~ want, who does not want wife,
Af-etionsts and fair;
To lace si the Of life
And all its joys to share.
With temper sweet. with reading will,
With firm, yet piacied miad-
To love M with all my faults,
With sen time MT refined.
HONESTY.
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