The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1863-12-31
TIE NEW YEAR.

Eighteen Hundred and Sixty.ihr"c is
no more Like huge wave lreighted
with human cares ard human life, I: has
rolled grandly past, and Il lost in the
great ocean Of Eternity. Many incidents
have taken place in 1868. which will be
recorded in history and read by genera.
lcns TO come.
Sanding, as we do, upon the grave OF
the old year and in the ytttibulc OF the
new, We occupy n high vontagc.pruund,
from which we can proftoby to ourselves
rcvicw the pnst aud glance forward to
the dim, untli,d future. As the traveller
who has reached the summit Of some bold
cmihcncc upon his way mhy pau'c for
while, md casting his eye Tor back along
his alhwoy. see Goodly pr, spccts ns well
as tuilsomc stecTs now lcn behind
swelling woodlards, waving fields Of ycl
low grain, aud aowcry mcods, buthcd in
sunlight and sleeping in bcHniy, Ms we II
as wild, lonely moors, deep, melancholy
Wales, aud lrow nirg forests where danger
lulks--so We, fr,m This high point in
lilc's urrcy. may Hlsc look back upon
the chockcr'd scenes Of the dead year,
Its light and shadc-its Joy aud gloom.
Another pondcrous tom, is added to
the nrchcvcs of Time, with the label
I"IS63' upon il. Ard what a volume /!
How stained with blood how smcnrcd
with guilt how bnckcnch with crime
ARE is pages What record docs il
present Of fumun wrtngs and suilcrincs {!
How cloqucntly docs il sprLk orihc hor
rors AID dcvnstliions of murdcrous war
Whnt pictures does il present of indi.
vidual woe and personal sorrow - OF
heats " id we'd aud brokcn--of crushed
4 and widowed ullj cIions--of pccunnry
dslr, sscs, Of hollow eyes ard pallt
checks, touched ly the "chil hand o.
penny"
The pages ,f the vo'umc, however, are
not all dark. There are golden lcaycs
filled with lines oIjoy and beauty. Wha
songs of pocsy, that speak Of the merry
pcals of marriage bells, OF laughing eye,
,uud sunny hearts, Of the glad shouts o
innocent childhood ringing cut in opcr
air Of cheerful i6ccs aud happy homes
--oCuII delightful sights aud scenes, ligh
up the otherwise dark aud mclanchol,
picture.
AT the close ofcnch revolving year, W,
are reminded how swim and stcalthy II
the tread Of Timc-how ccnscless an,
rapid in it's flow the stream of Lite. FIX
istcncc may be libcnod to strcum, upoi
whose bosom, scattered all along, up ar,
down, VIC are the voyagcrs. There i
Chilhood, sporting III play 6ul, unsuspcct
ing innocence, near tho source, upon IL
pure, unstNincd waters. Next comes ud
vcuiuruus Youth, in his sNiny-glidinl
bark, dashing hoadlong down needless q
wind or tide. Then Manhood, swccpin!
along It's deepening, widening, more ma
] site channel, into the great sea, to bat
tie with It's waves und breakers. An,
thcn Old Age, tcmpcsi.toss, d aud weary
approaching the only outlet that lead
to the bcund'css ocean of Eternity. Or
, alternative is for us ALTO reach the ha
ven Of security and peace, or to 90 dow
amid the pillows. To attain the iormc
, we must be yigilart, we must keep Gu
nerves strung aud our energies aroused
remembering that life is real aud corncs
that IL stern duties forbid that W
should pause 10 sport with the bubble
that dance around us, that we should pu
forth the hand to pluck the painted How
crs that fringe the margin of the stream
. or that We should turn our prows To III
r shore to lingSr aud listcn TO the syrcn
b voices that greet the ear.
"Thc birth Of new year." say
D Charles Lamb, is Of an interest too wild
to be prctcrmittcd by King or cobblcr,-
No one ever regarded the list of Januar
with indifference. Is that frum which a
date their timo and count upon what
let. 1t is the nativity OF our common
Adam"
, The year upon which we have just cu
; tered dawns upon US as nation dOrkly
! but let US hope that long ere il close
the " clouds that lower around our house
a will b" in the deep bosom of the oc ca
i buried" and that the return Of this da
- viii fud us a reunited peaceful and hOpp
, people, As individuals, at least, let u
p. strive TO keep pure record in the Va lum
| 70 "lS6i," SO that when h,loo, shall hav
been filed away, Memory the book-woru
may not, in alter years, turn over III
d leaves and find one page il would wis
to blot or blush to see.
U With these rcmUrks, too grave an
somb rhucd, perhaps, we wish you, dcI
i readers of the TRInUNR, a. HArPy M,
YEAR"
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