The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1860-01-05
KENOsHA WISCONSIN, THURSDAY JANUARY s. 1860
twentieth Annual Address of the Carrier
OF the " KenoSha Telegraph" to its Pat

IWsnttoth Annual Address of the Carrier
OF the Kenosha Telegraph" to its Pat
rons.
A Happy New Year," to one and TO all !
May peace joy and happiness dwell with you all
In storm and in sunshine, in light and in shade
The tour of the news-boy must weekly be made
Oh happy is he, when he carries his rhymes,
And gets from his patrons pocket of dimes
The old year has gone with its joys and its sor
rows,
The New Year has come with its golden to-
morrows.
some brilliant cloud castles have vanished in ail
Some lonely crushed hearts have gone down to
despair.
Oh! Time, the tomb.builder, thou elf with the
glass
How many more years will be given to US 7
How much of earth's sorrows shall fall to our
share?
How much of its pleasure, how much of it's care I
But Time il no Sphynx, to mako riddles in vain,
The mysterious future he only makes plain.
Let US then the past survey,
What its lessons to US say.
First the Nation claims attention:
What's been done that's worth the mention
What is doing now in Congress
Every one can give > rough guess
Double, double, toll and trouble,
Fire burn and Congrsss-bubble,"
Men of pith and men of JUNCTION (.
Deem it their divnest function, y
Night and day and heuIly too,
10 bray, and howl, and bugA-boo. d.
Helper! Helper Helper Helper
Yells each Southern hsty yelper,
They'll whack the Union all TO smash
Make an everlasting cash, %
In this blessed Union, Union.
Douglas star has set in night
Attorney Black has got him tight
Squatter Sovereignty is done 't
Good for nothing--lscks back bone.
Old John Brown has gone to glory,
History will tell the story,
How he bed and how he died,
How he failed and how he died.
Make way for Liberty he cried,
Made way for Liberty % and died.4 Ha
By fairy hands his kne Is rung,
BY forms unseen his dirge is sung;
There Honor comes pilgrim gray,
To bless the turf that wraps his clay,
And Freedom shall awhile repair,
10 dwell weeping hermit, there
Prophet Muse, fsretell us what events are near Z
What of good shall 1860 bring us-whas of chseri
Shall giant wrongs, now battling for existence,
Be hurled TO Hades, by the might of right resist
ance7
In temples shall old wooden DAgons hourishp
Shall Baal be God. and truth and reason perish
Ah' no tie purple dRwning of the morning,
Gives presage of the rule Of right-to tyrants
warning.
" Lo! clouds about to vanish from the day,
And brazen wrong to crumble int clay )"
Lo the rights about to conquer, clear the ssGp
But the nation and the people must not all our
time engage .....a.v. ..- H
Turn we then, to this, eur city: let her hsnors
grace our page.
Thirty years ago, the alders grew upon the very
ground cit no s-rsf-,. -. 81. ,.-4-,-.
Where now Main Street and our palaces may
readily be found. 80
Thirty years ago, the red man shot his arrows
in the cir, .sa 4e
On the place where our forefathers planned our
tiny city square, 1
Now, against thousand chimneys rear the saw
age winter blasts. 1 sac aat aE.
In our harbor lie the vessels pointing heaven
~. ward with their masts; ~ .sa
Westward, where the ''Star of Empire" jour
neys onward day and night,
Thither runs our western ralroad-into Wheat
land-out of sight! saa rH -....
But the glory of our city--our ParnassEs and
our fame, yt.n. ......-. s.-. s ..-
All aro bound up in our Free Schools-nay it
ever be the same.
Here the sons of Hipocrates give US physic fer
our ills.
Allopathic, Hydropathic, Homeopathic little
pills.
Thems, goddess of the lawyers, has band of
worshippers, aasga
Blackstone, Coke, and Littleton, are the priests
and furnishers
Natures 'eyeless drudge-black rain-'san find
little here to do ars
When the boys bring out the Engine Jolly dash
ing Number Tacs; - ..--...
Old Mt Etna famed in story TCyelop's black
smiths shop was there, -.....
4, Might be speedily extinguished by the solid men
Il Aa of Star; a.a -. liz s....-,. ....
Then the Badgers" and "Park City," lay
Throbbing with the rushing water, dashing on
| ward ut its foes. s.r
And now of the Seasons, past and passing away
Lake The deed Of last gear, like the dying to-day;
The first in the train of the slumbering dead,
Is the beautiful Spring, the lion March led
Whose volets ding their rich breath in the sir,
Sweet Speldthrfts of treasure Spring always
filings there q. p a't
My heart and my steps must grow light as
bound r....
Der the bright grass that covers the beautiful
mounds, sI l.e
And JOY Ger my soul, like the sun DER the trees
A pleasure in giving, and taking receives;
And then Spring with grace that is lowly and
and wise,
Emshrouded an June, 1t quietly dies. -..
Then Summes, sweet summer! Empress of the
year, ae-.
Walks in with grace, hailing all with good
cheer
Heaping up all the flowers the wild and the
+ la sweet
Mementoes and keepsakes of Spring busy feet !;
These green leaves have dropped, their colors
have fed,
Been touched by the Frost King September in