Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-11-24


well in 1860.
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, HAPPINESS. From the day that Adam
lost Paradise by eating of the forbidden fruit
, mankind has constantly been in quest of
happiness Up within very brief period
but one perfectly happy man is said to have
been found and he was destitute of a shirtl
Unnumbered centuries have been hidden in
the misty past without any people being
brought to state of unbounded earthly
happiness, and it has baen reserved for the
present age to solve the problem and produce
happy people. -.... - -..
We refer of course, to the American Mig.
: ger as the happy man who has first been de-
u veloped, after so many centuries of continu
I GUS effort. He is to-day the embodiment O
all that philosophers, poets and christian
:, have ever sought for, dreamed Of created
in imagination, but never found. Upon tn,
It very ultima Mnte of time has he been found
t and we are the settings of this ebon jewel
r Happy Niger! Twenty-Five millions O
: people are to-day clutching ferccly at each
J, others throats are lockedin deadly strug
gle; and all for his benefit The broad
+ halls of the national congress are an arena in
D which gladiators struggle in prolonged ment.
. al combat, and all for the glorifcation the
Niger. Two billions and half of the ma.
tion's wealth has been spent already, and
billions more will be exhausted until oul
people will be entirely impoverished and the
: possessions of postcrity mortgaged for 6
dozen centuries, all for the happiness of the
Niger. Every household has given it,
tirst-born, and stands ready to contribute it.
second, and its third, for the further eleva
. ton ofthe Niger A nation is inlpoverish
y ing itself; our delicate women are rapidly
. ) one by one, passing from the light of enjoy
ment into darkness and sorrow and mourn
ing, and all to aid in the further apotheosi
Of the Happy Man of this century
Happy Nigg L! For him the polished
eloquence of Everett grows brighter anc
!, keener; for him the scholarly periods o.
i Sumner become resonant with music anC
u more weighty with classic thought; for hin
a the poet Taylor borrows fresh fire from the
u Parnassian altar; and for him majority o
: the genius of the land devOtes its most in.
i spired productions.
o Happy, thrice happy Niger! There i.
o for him no taxation, no debt, no mourning.
t For him Bastiles do not yawn no detective
+ dogs his steps; no white oak prison open.
its doors; no bayone,s patrol the streets -
Happy Niger in having such people, and
d honored people to whom is intrustcd the
glorious task Of sustaining such happiness!
DEATH OF Col. SpIEGEL.-At the semi.
| annual meeting of the Hebrew Benevolent
A Society, held on the 9th of October, 1864,
0 the following resolutions were offered and
unanimously adopted
WHERERs, Our lamented brother Marcus NJ
S Spiegel, Colonel of the 10th Ohio Regiment was
Killed aboard the steamer "City Belle" on Red
River, May I'd, 1864, while nobly performing his
n duty to our adopted country; and
; WHEREAS, The members of the Hebrew Be-
nevolent Society of Chicago, desire to give ex.
preston to the feelings of high esteem and love
: they entertained towards their late brother and
former President. be 1t therefore
l Resotved, That the members of the Hebrew
Benevolent Society feel proud of the hsroic con.
duct OF their late brother, NJ NJ Spiegel, he hay