New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-01-01
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THTE NEW yEME.


and private good w hes, to renewed vows oi
affection and fresh assurances Of love. In spite
Of the beroayemcnts which public events have
multiplied and Of the painful "reminiscences
which, this morning, must agitatc many hearts,
Il is consolatory to consider that our aggregate
Of fraside pleasures is still so large, and that
our moral and material corporations are yet
50 numerous. The war viii have failed to in-
culcate It's most precious and costly lesson,
should il not impress upon every mind the close
connection which exists between a good govern
men. and well-orderod, Christian homes. This
dav, If upon no other day Of tho year,
il becomes Us 10 reflect that political free
dom is TO DO desired, not because it saves US
from the lower and more ordinary distgesses
and disappointments Of life, but because 1t Ia
cilitates the cultivation Of the nober parts Of
our nature and by diminishing personal wants
protects us from the perils of narrow selfish
ness. More clearly than ever We peer with
anxious eyes to-day into the unrcyealed and
misty future swayod by those mysterious anxi-
cites for the welfare OF cur lineage which MIN
gle with our hopes Of Immortality. Moro thor
oughly than ever we understand to-day that orr
work must bear an intimate and acknowledged
relation u the fortunes OF those who shal! come
after U.s. We shall hardly fail of tho reverence
wbi., Is due 10 our domestic obligations, If our
fist wishes arc for the welfare Of that land-ia-
the-.hud or mother-land, as we may please 10
call (which il the common home Of Us ALL
and which imposes upon Us the ties of great
clinical fraternity. Tie aheotlonaio figures oil
speech which are in such common usage that
wo axe apt to forget their proiouudesi sgnill-
cauce, imply tia. We owe rlihl duty TO our
country. upon the conscientious discharge Of
which depend our personal comfort and safety.
Our mouths are full Of pfoycrbial' Loyalty
tongues repeat glihly enough tie formulas OF
patriotism, but we shall be good citizens only
as we recognize our national duties in oug hearts
and Conscience and perform them with an en-
thusasm no colder than that with which we
pursue our private interests.
Tie year which is to come ID pregnant with
event which must give on indelble color TO our
American annals. Wax under any cilcum-
stances is q sclflimitcd disease, and through It's
enormous waste Of human energies and on
nigorous con ampt.on OF al the resources Of
human vitality is continually tending TO o con-
cluiou L. end, whether iliu5tsious or igno-
minious. is certain. Tlis New Year, whether
We may find It propitous or adverse, will inial-
IDLY carry Us nearer TO glory or to shame, 10
the triumph Of civilization or the victory 81 o
rcsa ci.a.ci l-.llr.-m. 81 bot, Il must bring
au unusual proportion Of sorrows and anxietlcs.
For every ve...iouelt field, many happy bones
will be rendered DARK AID dc,o.a'e, aud there
can be DO great public joi..ug which w.ll not
be tempered b. the signs Of women and ihe
pi,cour ROB. Of lcr.aycd Children. 50 much,
wild heart a. stout as we con make them, must
we prepare for. But this certainty Of sorrow
slorM oils make as Grmer in our conclusion,
that 10 pay uu'h and yot TO purchase notl-
inc. IS o. 'ollv unworthy Of men in any age, and
especially unworthy Of ounclycs. i, through
t.is bap.i,. g. blood and fire, we are advancing
TO DO Melc linc--ir The duh years are simply
crowdug iu a circle and merely repeating tie
bitter yio .tldos Of a broken and aimlres
eAislencc-if We must have the suffering
without tie solacc, The haunting apira-
ton w.lhou. the power, capacity Of provision
without tie capacity Of provision, then there is
no animal upon earth more miserable than man
then Hell is here and Heaven is fable, and
he God WHO made "a hooking hcnd! Has il
been only through our folly that We have hoped
lor so muchl Ale We but the victims Of our
own moa.urelc.s concci.sl IT, dupcs OF ianeics
which we lave, in silly pride, misnamed philoa-
ophies2 babblers without sense, and IDIOTS with
only limited powers Of seliprcseration, with
souls that We cGnnot save. hea,ts that belool as,
instincts that Dctray NJ, and heads engenderng
only the ioolishcst dreams? Yet this is sub
stantially the profession, if not the belief, Of
men who tcll us that in Ibis world il is impossl'
bic to Ike according ia OK ligL.-ilat sc can
not be true to our best iniu.tions-that We can
not afford, in tho conflict between duty aud so.
called and miscallcd interest, TO take SIDES with
the frst-that reforms which arc di'agrccablc
must DO indefinitely postponed,, and that there
Is 10 peace for US hcIc, unless we consent TO a
compromise between truth ord ialaehood! A.
IL the very existence Of The controversy between
right and wrong id net at once setuc the ques-
ton, and prove The quarrel mortal! a. if there
were 10 higher and lower forms Of human at
tainmeu.-nothng but dead level Of cxpe-
diency--noihing for u but ingenious make.
shifts, hollow pre,cnsc, and life allcyiated by