The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1861-01-17
One Moro Year Scored.
The Missouri Republican thus motto


t the past year:
The speed Of the globe on it's orbit has
thrown one more Year Of, to follow the
i dim decades already gone, and starts this
o morning for another revolution, with new
t one on it's back. 1t is we'll to mark an
event of this kind in the way custom war
rants to take some note of time otherwise
: than by its flight Hours multiply, days
: hurry away, weeks come and go. months
t pass, and when they sum up into years,
1 we are bewildered that we should have
: been so indifferent to their loss, whilst up
on looking around us, we may perceive
so many thousands of wonderful effects
5 they have produced. Time is, indeed, un'
ceasingly working marvels. but so stealth
lily that, until completed, We often fail to
notice them, although constantly looking
on. Its seal is set upon nations and king
doms--upon governments and crowns
not less than upon individuals and the fair
forms of nature. The signet is change.
To the whole world the past year was a
remarkable one--few more so to Europe,
and none to this continent. Of the events
by which it was distinguished in the Uni
ted States. particularly. the retrospective
is rife. Let us briefly recapitulate few of
the most important: Among these were
the unparrlled excitement and party spirit
growing out of the Presidential election
an affair which will be viewed in the flu
ture principally by its effects upon the
permanence and stability of our national
institutions. which, il is agreed, have been
shaken to their very root. For the first
time in the history of the country has the
idea of seperate governments, formed from
the present Union--so replete with giori-
Gus observation-disclosures matter OF general
and profound consideration land for the
first time has a sovereign State In form if
not in fact, deliberately crt herself loose
from the parent stock and set up an inde-
pendent administration ofauthority. These
and their concomitant occurrences too nu
nerous for special allusion, are alone suf-
Gcient to make the year 1850 long remem-
bered in America.
From tbs very beginning OF the year,
when the country was deeply agitated over
the Harper's Ferry treason, the times have
( been full of uncommon things. At Wash
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Speaker OF the House. which was finally
accomplished on the st Of February, al
ter two months Of arduous speech making
and caucusing. Scarcely was this over
when there began the Senatorial and Exc
cutive effort to neutralizs the popularity of
Judge DoUGLAs, which occupied good
deal of time end wasted an inmense amount
Of energy. There. with the Covode Com
mittee Investigations, the Potter and Fry
or comedy. and Summers "barbalism Of
slavery" managed to keep the telegraph
burdened and the country in stew"
But we have had other than Congress
lonsl excitements Such were the tinan
cisl crisis, the visit Of the Prince of Wales,
the arrival OF the japanese Embassy, the
advent OF the "Great Eastern" the Heen-
an and Sayers gossip" the Inauguration
of the Perry monument in Cleveland, the
capture and execution Of Gen. William
Walker, storms, earthquakes. pestience,
disaster by land and flood, public trust
speculations, cabinet designations, wars
and rumors Of wars, etc.
I Let us not. however. dwell upon what
ia gone. "Tke past is an empty flask
the future a bottle yet uneorked." Let us
not look back to dispair. but forward to
hope Though every heart is haunted by
scme unwslcome shadow, and though there
be spectres constantly pacing the cham
bsrs of the brain. yet to all even to the
past is sen,neled with many happy images.
which the memory will not willingly let
die.
Weare now in the midst OF a political
crisis, the result of which may determine
the destinies of millions in this country,
if, indeed. it does not change the relation
ships of even foreign nations. This is an
epoch that will be noted by historians as
among the most important the world has
ever experienced. 1t therefore behooves
all. putting partisan bias aside. and ban
;shing passion and prejudice, to weigh well
each for himself. what the uncorked fu-
ture may pour out. The page of coming
time. now clear and unsullied. is susceptible
to the faintest impression. Let us antici
pate that the record it snail bear may glow
with the brightest and fairest trainings of
wisdom justice, patriotism and fraternal
concord.
We embrace the occasion of the advent
Of New Year 20 wish the friends and rea
ders of this Journal adue share ofthe pleas
ures aud joys of life-an increase of their
stores. and the calm inner comfort that
takes the mind peacefully down to the sun
set horizon. and to an auspicious and hap
py close.
The Cross
The following striking passage is from
Henry Ward Beecher's sermon. preached