Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1861-01-09
CARRIERS ADDRESS,
JANUAR Y !, 1861.

~, " i'S eHilgutcnlng grace,
IN IN enieeoled powers of our noble race,
men deep beneath unlettered ignorance
Had Tor ages lain in deathlike trance,
its constant messenger in grief or ioy,
has has ever been the faithful carrier boy.
LIS ne alone, with young and slender
form.
Has Always braved the cold and bowling
storm
10 bear the holy light of truth afar.
UT Ut. happy speed the news Of peace or war.
lis he who prompt and cheerful at your
door,
Each week supplies you with some useful
lore,
Some knowledge to add to the garnered
| store,
Something to free the weary heart fiom
GALE
Something to sooth or tighten the grief
you bear;
And if duty on him at times impose
10 bear the page which sadder themes dis.
close,
oh blame not him, who must the types
ana tell the current actions Of the day;
Though unwelcome oft the tidings oro't,
Which, come not unexpected, yet un.
sought
To eager eyes, whose changing hopes and
fears,
Are seen in feeble smiles or starting tears;
All are alike the fruit of weary toll
Which like, for bread, the Farmer tills the
soil,
2eaped bounteous in the golden grain
For mental food the Printer tills his brain
While you, from one small germ of tho't
behold,
By his art thousand more unrolled.
Thus throughout each year that's pathless
fed.
The carrier has en- his mission sped
Greeting his patrons with cheelul face.
Giving each in his heart a cherished
place.
And now you see him still at his post,
Braving the wiuter -defying the frost
That he may at each door by dawnius ap.
pear,
To wish his kind friends a"happy New
Year."
Surely may one who so faithfully serves,
Claim that generous return he deserves,
What thoughts carrier may express,
You will learn by reading this address
Wherein he bids farewell to Sixty that's
gone
And pays hisrespects toyoung Sixty one
BY Heavens Great Omnisccnce guided,
And His kind Benefcence provided,
We stIll, in life and health are hero
To hail once more the new born year.
Not only h ere with life and health,
But having every source Of wealth,
Whose treasures vast arc yet untold
| While by sixty and an hundred fold,
Earth has yielded her bounteous stores,
And want approaches not our doors.
Should not our grateful hearts erflow
| With the immeasura5le thanks we owe,
| For blessings vouchsafed us here below,
And for that mercy which doth spare,
| That we for judgement may prepare;
Then how much more for that deep love
Which profiers endless bliss above,
! If We liie's duties well fulfill,
On earth obey the Masters will!
But Patrons dear, with anguished heart
saw the dying Year depart
With many lingering look of pain,
| While Gloom and Sorrow formed its train,
And | could hearupon tn gale
A song of death-a nournful wall,
Lamenting o'or the Nations woes,
Which wild and melancholy rose,
And as along the blast it swept,
Methought the plying angels wept
To hear the dirge of Freedom dead
The knell, of hope forever fled
To see he: reign Of glory done,
And Misery's dismal sway begun;
That soon must sink in endless night
nation, born with hopes as bright
Nay brighter far than ever yet,
A nation in its dawning met,
Since Gods bright Sun first rose and set;
Since created nations dwelt on earth,
Hope sprang exultant with their birth
TIL Freedom, seeking peace and rest,
Turned her footsteps toward the west
The broad Atlantic crossing DER,
Until she reached its farthest shore,
And there, beneath the sylvan shade,
Freedoms ark of hope was laid.
Ere long her altar here was reared,
And on its sacred hearth appeared
A sacrifice for human right,
Whose flames diffused holy light,
And threw their beams back DER the main.
Where, meath the Tyrant's calling chain,
Her million votaries groaned in pain,
And struggling, sought redress in vain
Revealed to them this new found home,
And babe Expressions victims come.
To share this fruitful ives tern land
With its gallant patriot band;
Where freedoms incense as it rose,
Bespoke for all calm repose,
Beneath her just and equal laws,
Who espoused her righteous cause,
And Joined her hardy sons of toll
Upon Columbia's virgin soil,
To teach the savage wilderness,
Their labcrs, with its fruits TO bless.
Nor quite unheeded was the beacon sent,
Nor the thrilling voice that with it went
At its call slumbering race awobe-
Upon their night Of wrong the morning
broke,
From an odious thraldom thousands flee,
Thenceforth determined to be brave and
free;