The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-01-01

lgstA NANNY New Yenr"-T0 our many reai'
e-s ~, tbie hirthday Of 1863, we come with tine
Kindly greetings of the season. we wish you al
uonnv New Year. Kindly wishes and friendly
,.,ootings cost nothing, yet with some people they
are as scarce as if they cost mint Of money
sTbe feelings must be brought into that state OF IN
selfshness that aloAs an interest in others wei
lare,or the attempt to wish happy New Year de-
feats itself
| The old year "G2" has gone, with all is high
hopes and aspirations into that great reservoir
the Past We leave it behind us, never more to
be recalled or revisited, save by ever faithful
memory. The hopes aspirations, and rosy an
ticipations that blJssomed az its birth, are most
all ashes, orlike the scared withered and dried.
eayes that lie thick sire ~ around the grave Of
the old wear How many have made good the
promises Of reform, Of industry, of diligence: Of
more useful and better lives With Which TIE dead
old year was greeted. at its birth. Some have full.
filled the pledge and are another cycle Of time
nearer heaven, and nearer the goal of perfection.
Others are far behind the old starting place, ready
perchance 10 enter upon the new year with the
old hopes and determinations, renewed butw
ened. None can enter upon the life of The neT
year under the same auspices twice. Man il so
constituted thet while life lasts, he must either
advance or rctrograie, there Is no standing still
in this world. We must be better, wiser and no
bier, or we shall certainly be worse, more foolish
and meaner at every recurrence OF the new year
Which is it with the many we now address!
We wish for ell Happy New Year, but It mus
reBt with every individual TO make it such for
himself If time is improved Alright, and the right
spirit cultivated it can hardly fail of being ut
Happy year. Real Happiness consists manly il |
performing or having performed our whole duty
to our NJ aker, our ne ighbor5 and ourselves - |
1t comes much more from within than from
without. External circumstances and conditions |
may seem to have the control of this very uncer,
tain thing we call happiness, But is only seem |
ny. Wealth nor position are guarantees oft, or
many Of the most unhappy could purchase it. but
it Is free to ALL to the great and the
owly, the beg gar aud the prince, the poor man
Ind the rich man; tor it consists in duty perform
H. in conscience void Of offence towards God
sud man.
10 al then again we wish a Happy New Year.
The Now Year for our country looks dark and
o. bidding. Treason and billion are still hold
ng their horrid orgies IN our midst, and are rath-
= emboldeIe by the successes of the past, than
asst down at its reyorses, aud yet we cannot
QUIT that the days OF the rebellion are number
/, and that ere long an honorable peace win take
10 place of the present civil war and discord
The nation is every day putting on new arn)r
strength, and bringing out more and more of its
tent egergeis. We are learning to look upon the
scursed cause of this in its true light a
onstrous evil from which the country ought to
rid ofinstead of the peculiar domestic institutn
"Our southern brethren too sacred 10 he nter~
red with or even discussed. And to four mil,
ons OF bondmen, WHO 70 day are declared free
y the proclamation of the President, will it lie a
iappy New Year indeed, tie ~ ear Of ubeeT'
With TIE blessed light Of the New Year has
.llen the shackles Of slavery. The foul blot on
Ir national escutcheon shall now be washed our
nd a few years more and it will, only live in his
,ry, and people will wonder whcn they read oft
nat such re lie Of barbarism, such thing of
vii, such comment upon our boosted free in
-itutions, should have long reared IFS hydra>
cad, in this Gland Of The Free and home of the
;rave"
Let us hope then, that though the present is
ark and gloomy, that out of his darkness and
loom, shall arise the "old Union" that our reve
lutionary fathers fought and died for, purified
nd cleansed from the only black stain that was
lowed to suily its brightness in the early days.