The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1861-01-03
CARRIERS ADDRESS.

A New Year Address, Eth? A New Year Address
And to all of our patrons I'll show it.
1 don't know who'll write it I'm free to confess,
And you safely may swear IN ne post.
IfIwas to tell you the news Of the town
How it's grown, how it's prospsred,and all that
Asw few have "gons up and some have"gono
down.
You would tell me "that's old, know all that >
If I'd tell you such crops had never been seen
Since the days when cid Adam turned farmer,
Or since Jacob fed cattle and ''peeled h,s sticks"
green,
And waited so lsng fer his charmer,
Such lets Of eue baby s had never been born,
Nor such porkers been brought to the slaRgh.er
Such monster potatoes. such big fields of corn,
Such Internal poor whiskey and water,
fear you'd not listen: then what could do!
don't want to worry or tease yea,
III could only branch off on some subject that 4
new.
Perhaps might possibly please you
thousand,
At this very moment just like me,
Are scratching their heads and nuttering "Pots
Tausendr"
al wish an idea would strike me-
If it does 'at strike me am thinking twill you,
Before you get done with this paper,
And if YOU can't find it rs soon as you're through,
You tan try with a hoe or scraper
It has been an old custom, "time ont of mind" :"
For carriers to have New Year Addresses;
To puff up themselves and all of their kind,
To make money to relieve their distressos.
But Just about now, it can be OF no use
To talk either good sense or nonsense;
All efforts OF language results ia abuse
OF the ideas entitled TO some sense.
Men are graphing with evsry i'll that's in life,
TO make Money; More Money; whatever
Will add to their 'pils," no matter what strife
1t may cost-thoy will follow it ever.
They now hunt elephants, Pestence, Death,
In AFRIcA's wilderness central
If they can find gold by loossing their breath,
They are happy; and seem quite centen mt all
They starve at Fixes Peak, thew die on the road !;
They live with scorpions at ''Cheriqui;''
If they only find gold. they'll bear any load
And in agony cry out ''Eureka."
Old MExrco's mountains are filled with the pelf,
But she not-she goes in for blood;
Her cutting of throats and abuse of herself,
Has no equal on Earth since the food.
Old ENGLAND goes on much the same she's
done
For ages-but ne longer can boast
That shes "queen Of the seas" since France
has begun
With new ships to surround her bright coast.
But shes getting more lib raj; her excellent queen
SIav well be her honor and pride;
While "the best governed people, p the world
has e'er seen
A re the French, who we used 10 derids.
RI-ssr, has freed all her serfs from tacir chains
But Ignorance and Poverty binds them;
Mvriads vet wander on SIsERiA's plains
Where Sorrow and Death only finds them.
AUSTRIA, more imbecle, wicked and weak
Than ever, still seeks to enforce
Her Tvrannous rule; but the people will speak
decree, thst will stop her rash course.
IrAIrA already has hailed with delight.
Freedoms star as it shines on her shores;
She rises from ages Of darkness to light,
And the edicts Of Despots ignores
GARBsLDI the brave with his followers few,
Shall he known long in Song and in Stery;
And VESErIA old with her waters blue,
khall once more renew her lost glory.
In SYRIA the DRusxs-like christians of old
Engaged in a dire perseeution:
But the Ottoman powers to their reasons were
cold,
And followed with swift rstribution.
At home we have had political fight
With our brethren of the soft hearted order;
"Horse, fsos and draggoens' they have put to
flight,