The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1860-01-05
JOHN HAYN
New Years Address by the Carrier of
THE JEFFE:RSO RSONIAN,
January l. 1850.

THE JEFF ERSONIAN
January l, 1850.
Kind Patrons all, again | come
Ere New Years day
To wish you all the happiness
That wishes can convey:
For am happy ard would see
You all as happy now as me.
To-day another old year dies,
And full of days;
His months have been allotted him
And meekly he obeys;
Like all his predecessors he
Has done his work acceptably.
Have you and as well fulfilled
Our mission too?
Have we done all required of US
The old year through!
All! much fear was wrongly done,
Whilst much required was not begun!
IT'S now too late to make amends
For moments lost,
But we may here resolve to-day,
What'er the cost,
That all The future shall unfold
a better life as we grow old.
How greatly we are blessed to-day!
Who shall our blessings all portray!
Through all the dangers Of the year
We've safely passed ana now are here
To retrospect the past to-day
And note the years departing ray!
And what the retrospect We view,
OF joys and sorroHs which We knew!
Which in its picture most convene
The lights or shades that paint the scene!
All! some we know will, weeping, say,
The year has borne from them away
The dearest idol of the heart
And left them life's severest smart!
How many hearts in deepest gloom,
To-day weep Ger some loved ones tomb
Whose presence but one year ago
Withheld the sorrows now they know!
If the old year with Us has passed
And not those darker shadows cast,
Oh! how should we to day rejoice,
With grateful heart and thankful voice
These woes IS hich have on others fell
Are waiting US, and who shall tell
But this New Year shall soon disclose
To US the depth OF human woes.
Our Country broad, from sea to sea,
Demands humble note from me;
And glad am | to find it yet
A Union whole though strifes beset,
And feelings hard 'twxt South and North
Have called harsh thoughts and feelings fortt
These local interests, from local view,
Their seeds of discord madly strew,
And patriotism is displaced
Our humble Country is disgraced-
BY sectional and party schemes
Which were not in our fathers dreams;
And we seem drifting swift to be
Wrecked like those of antiquity
o, Heaven forbid, with all it cost,
Our Country's hopes should yet be lost;
That we who have been lauded high
Should yet see freedom droop and die!
This need not be, and we will pray
That while Time lasts it never may.
We will not think it, Heaven, spare
A fate so terrible to bear;
For if zoe sink the truth is plain
That Freedom shall not rise again!
But we cannot, will not despair
Whilst martyrs to the truth there are;
Whilst there ere hearts and hands to be
True 10 mans rights, to liberty
And whilst improvements everywhere
TO Yankee progress witness bear;
Whilst all our institutions grow
Or those that shouId-and plainly show
That light is spreading, the new man,
With his new means, as best he can,
Is working out that problem here
Which all before him failed TO clear;
Whilst heaven is furnishing so free
The means to exalt us glorlousy,
We still will hope and pray to be
A nation of grand destiny
Our Town deserves passing thought,
For it is with our interest fraught;
And it contains our homes and hearts