Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-01-02

THURSDAY, JAN'Y 2, 1862,
THE CARRIERS ADDRESS
[E PATRUNS OF THE RUTLAND HERALD
January l, 1862.

\ TO THE PATRONS OF THE RUTLAND HERALD,
l. January l, 1862.
/ PROLOGUE.
Dear Patrons, with each Dawning Year
| The Carriers faithful lines appear
4 Relating how the Earth has run
Its recent circuit round the Sun.
! So now again his couplets swell
y To large dimensions, as they tell
u Of countless things both said and done
In EIGHTEEN HUNDRED SIxTY-ONE -
OF plans conceived, of wrongs endured
N And Human Rights in part secured
Of Nations half to pieces rent
BY Faction, Fraud and Discomfort
Of Princes fresh from for%;is lands.
Who leave their footprints in our sands
of Deaths sad work mOng High and Low,
4 Helped on by Gods Avengng Blow
n OF mad Secession's fierce TRADE,
With nought to help it but Block-atd
1 of Land with Civil War oppressed
a most uncivil thing, at best
Of News which makes us cry or laugh,
When told for truth by Tell-lie-g1aph
Of biggest Bubble of the day
We mean, of course, the &c. S A"
Of Blood and Treasure freely spent
!. i A stronger Union to cement
VI Question hardest yet for man
ow best to treat ''De Contraban
n CQngressmen who go-for fun
Il I 10 spend a Sabbath at Bull Run
IyI OF Russell's waifstrom western chimes,
i With news served up to suit The Times:
1 OF Parties going TO Decay,
I Where everybody hopes they'll stay
OF Naval Expeditions, planned
For razing cane in Dixie'o Land
K Of Afric, with submissive grace
4 Passing the Bond-ag Other Race
PN OfSoutherl Courage 4ro~ing less,
Il Inspired by General Distress
|p OF Northern Losses met by Gains
While General Satisfaction reigns
H 0fwhat The HERALD, day by day,
EA Has done to guide and cheer your way
E9 But ere your time and patience fail
M Wen let The Carrier tell his tale.
81 With .'HAPPY NEW YEAR to You all .-...
a. The Carrier makes his yearly call
s And giyes YOU eac4 passage free
Ill Quite round the world, to iiear and see
What Time has wrought what Man has done,
N Within one circuit of the Sun.
81 H.
81 In bold relief one truth is clear
IN Mans Rights gain ground from year to year,
M And Justice working slow but sure,
s$ Will vet her noblest ends secure.
10 In Russia Freedoms SCepter waves
&M Der millions now no longer Slaves
& Long lime tR-f g. the deed had wiled,
nj And New YC~ iw the pledge fulfilled.
B# God bless the Nation and the Man
n Thus early found in Freedoms van
" While free { p America yet lags,
And Afric all her fcters drags
Dear Italy, so long distressed,
N With quiet has at last been blessed;
nj Though while Gaeta long held out,
N Full oft she heard the battle shout.
III The end for which she fought so well
Is gained in part, but none can tell
III How much of strife there vet must oe,
Before the Truth shall make her free
a a The Pope still lives, though all confess
His realm grows beautifully less
& And Garibaldi, restless longs
70 seek redress for all her wrongs.
81 What ha, been doing all this while
SA In Madagascar-ta -taF-OH Isle :?
l@ Who giyes to her one thought or care,
~ Since Ida Pfeiffer journeyed there '-.
Yet DER the seas the news is brought
81 Of crown at stake, of hOnOrs sought.
Padama Second little knows
81 hat plots the morrow may disclose
III Or when his reign, of late begun,
a Shah end, and all his work be done.
f N snite of all the Japanese
y Learned, by their trip across the seas,
kN{ Of Art of Science, and OF Lore
nv touching our Enlightened Shore
Isnsn still piavs tn assassin's part.
Ana reaches Consuls through the heart:
Save when like her, they keep aloof,
or. better still, are dagger-li ',' ....
What seems for Prussia rather rude
An ancient Custom is renewed,
Her newmade lcng-lillc little elf H
Must needs be crowned, so cy01CRS himself.
In New Granada better things
Are noticed than the freaks of kings,
u BY General Masqaera led.
The Liberals arc at the Head ..... ..
"A And Sixty OEt eNuting dates
The rise Of more Cpited States
Dominic set free in vain,
Is Joined again to mother Spain; ..
Like her who, washed till washers tire,
Turns to her wallowing in the mire
Of Mexico, if you would learn, ...
Please to her olden records turn.
NJ As she has ever been before
I'll So now the same-and something more:
And Spain and France and England, all,
Have promised her speedy call:
And soon expect to set her right
And keep her straight-say-over night.
II In spite of Free Democracy,
l8 80 scorned by Regal Royalty
III Princes of lofty blood have degned
10 tread where Kings have never reigned,
And view the Land where Common Schools
Mae MEN, and not mere Tyrants' tools.
70! Iflfoe Napoleon, with his wife
ol0Iilda, paltper of his life
n nv En ~ nian' hil Who didn't think it wrong
10 orlng MS Dette' half along
WSo Nna fr,dee had no ne Sson oinnSe-hapess thng'
"a Prince Alfred, too a smaltayr hno3,
III BY much than England's h,veI Tow,
81 The Prince of Wales who, al well iyno,v
M Gut calling went, one year ago. nii0"
- prlnce Afred,-most unucky wgs+
# Because he CHANGED to see the leh2
g Some later than the Royal Son h
- Tor whom John Bn his best has done 4.
tW could Natures order be reversed
Ml And make Prince Alfred's name cona f,.,
M England might have, for future king.
4 s,,, ,,mon, and not royal Ihinq.- &
camn ,nese, ss with each prncev train,
T'ine salling DER the watery main