Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-01-07
Ne(u Dear's Aooress
TO THE PATRONS OF THE FARMER

We'll, PATRONS kind, Tn with you here.
! To ioyluly greet the newborn year.
Eighteen hundred and sixty-threc's
! Fmeycr gone from you and me,
Its wntry storms and summer hours.
! Its gli,tening frosts and leafy bowers;
lts all i'll short transferred ut last
! Into the history Of the past.
.'We're making history, has been said
! lly he who ; at the nation head.
What Kind Of history, we would know?
Is il for veal is it for woe?
For Woe | fear for by the powers,
ABE LINCOLN spent most of his hours
In laying plots and cutting figures
10 kill the whites and free the niggcrs.
The CONSTITUTIONS been discarded,
The plain Statutes disregardcd:
The freeman's Shields been thrown aside.
An honest ballot been denied:
On Patriot friends and Tyranl's foes
The grating doors Of Bastiles close:
With cruel, hcartless, despotic sway
In lonely cxilcs sent away,
The patriot true Che learned. the brave.
Because he would not be slave.
And bow the hinges of the knee.
10 Additions dire decree.
The white man interests are neglected,
Al plans OF peace have been rejected;
We yc COnscription and C0nfScation..
PrccIamations and Iaxations;
We We officers Of every grade
WITH thlcvlng hands, with gttcring blade
wish plunder proud with naughty mien,
Sometimes an honest one is seem
Who shout blood and loyalty,
Aud war to set the uiggers free.
How sorowiIl TO every patriot the tale
or country ruined, of hopes gone,
OF Orphan ; cry, of Widow wall.
or homes made desoatc and lone.
OF green graves and CORY fields.
or sorrow in thcis hitherto blessed land.
Tie fruit lanaticism yields
Nnd spreads from strand to strand.
May COP take the bitter cup from us again
Rcstorc to power the honest Democracy,
And dlctcontcntmcHt, Property. peace, reign
Where now are treason, and mobocracy
Give us union Of lakes, union of lands.
\ mon OF States none can sever,
y union OF hearts a union of hands,
And the old Flag Of our Union forever
Change is The order of the day.
And hence Il change this solemn lay,
And sing more mcrrly.
Our county steadtast in the holy cause:
The Constitution as tits, the Union as it was,
30 may 1t ever be.
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Dur town as lively a. Il hive,
Our people hy industry thrive.
-, y 3 good people should,
They allow NO suffering poor
To beg from door to door
To get their daily foot
We re down on Goldfish aristocracy.
/ rom 1t our people almost free
az, And pass for common;
w We the latest babies, prciIlcst girls
"'th Srarklng eyes and glossy curls,
Ana lovely women
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ANA always 9o 'hGlf biggest hGNS
III uolilG business well
" p'ea!Gmh'r" we nave i'oi low
some 'iIiE, some Shted, 100
10 Keep US out OF nell
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o ne T"HNE'sElNeN Iie iaIrst news
N"' 'u''ils'' men ne er EeI tne Diuos,
,yi ana every upright honest man.
W no taxes inc advertising pan,
Is sure 10 ilse'
VIZ,
WIN such surroundings then, rs here,
" are DONG pretty well
ict hope the happy day Is near,
-, Mhen we u do better, still.
a rome lolkS try to make,
hul "ho'hor good or whether DAD,
Depends on now we take IT.
Let thoSc VINO Wili, rcpne ut late,
Ana drop their heads with sorrow,
l44sh Wlllie cares upon me wait---
- KNOW !h3} u leave Tomorrow
Wy heart Is lght to match 1t,
Nha ~ l tear my oh'y coat
II 'et my mother pa'ch It,
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RlnnG', 'a,"un a., 80 i,'"''o' mv"tn'''
As winds would blow n feather
never rrieyed to see them 90.
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