Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1864-01-22
Carriers Address for 1864.

leaving u L nOugnts elnpaimlnR powers
Records of well or ill-spent hours
Deedssst our future may rejoice,
Or shame with their upbraiding voice
Words that truth or falsehood spoke,
And good or evil did evoke
Influences to better man,
Or darken more life's little span
Ali these the passing hour revealed:
Till Judgment Day they all are sealed.
Now, Contemplation views the past,
Sees years coming better than the last
Mourns DER its wasted, misspent days,
Its sadly-wandering, devious ways
Drops the soft tear for all its wrongs,
And thanks that Patience time pro
Great God. 1--WE ask } thy pardon give,
Help us, henceforth, in Thee to live;
Guide every step, control each thought,
Bring every vain desire to nought-
And may the next find us more free
From every wroug-and nearer Thee.
Sixty-three our granaries crowned
In health and peace our homes abound.
Happy our lot, compared with those
Where War is waged with all its woes
For still the Rebels, stiff-necked, wrong,
A hopeless contest do prolong.
Morgan and Lee did both invade
The loyal States in threat ming raid.
Morgan was caught with all his crew,
And mourned in Jail the justice due,
TIL trcachcry or carelessness
Procured his exit from duress:
Again the horse-thief forth may roam
I ntil the gallows gains its own.
Proud Lee, in Penn's fair borders found,
At Gettysburg, MEADE stood his ground
For three hot days the battle ragged:
Meades sixty thousand men engaged
The ninety thousand strong Of Lee,
Who, routed punished, sadly fee;
REYNOLDS, Zook, and Weed there fell
Generals they, beloved so we'll;
And our own Tucker, Weidensaul,
Gutelius, Henning-brave boys all
With others I've not time to name,
There earned sad but lasting fame.
Cherished may every dear one be
Who spilled his blood our land to free
Thrice honored, wounded who survive,
And all who for the Right did strive
They who drove back the naughty foe,
And brought their boasted warriors low.
And blessed they no whit the less,
Who came the wounded braves to dress,
The sick to nourish, and to heal,
And for their every pang to feel. /
Fo- not alone on bloody fields +
Where man the deadly weapon wields,
Is trucst courage ottenest shown, |,
Nor patriotism there alone.
The sister, daughter, mother, wife,
Oft gives one dearer far than life
Gives him to country and to God;
And when there falls His chast ming rod,
She bears. as woman only can,
The loss of every cherished plan.
In their hearts core, enshrined they be,
On land who fall, or sink heneath the sea
And by the sufferers couch they patient
wait
TIL wounds or fevers' anguish may abate.
Nivinest love. 10y God 5 own Love inspired,
BY purest patriotism doubly fired,
And angels they. in hospitals or camp,
Who watch thro' days, and trim the mid
night lamp.
Southwark our armies hewed their way,
New conquests gaining day by day.
Great GRANT, at Nicksburg, deals blow
Port Hudson echoes from below;
In Texas, BANKS the Old Flag rears,
.And Chattanooga, new thunder hears;
The Mississippi's free again;
East Tennessee harsh, Rebel reign,
| , o'er-for gallant BURNSIDE there,
.And HooKER's Lookout in the rear,
lave met and shattered Bragg's attack,
And Longstreet takes the Lce-ward track.
Nor arms alone-but Freemen's votes,
And CuAsE's ''greenback" treasury notes,
Have helped maintain the Nation strife
In her mOmentous stand for life,
While Buckeye BRoUGH and Keystone
CURTIN
lIavescotched the Coppcrheads for certain
Thus, far and near. by sea and strand,
At home, and in each distant land,
The UNIoY's cause is growing fast,
While Rebeldom's best hopes are dashed.
May every tyrant, every yoke,
The one be conquered, other broke,
Ere Sixty-Four shall finished be,
lad You and both live to see.
Two things are needed-Men to fill
Dur armies, everywhere, until,
Rcbellion dead, the Jubilee
Ot Peace and Freedom soon may be.
Next re-elect, to Chair of State,
Firmly to guide our onward fate,
Honest LINCOLN. Heaven give him grace
To well and firmly fill his place,
And from each bold, designing knave,
Cur land beloved ever save,
That children's children here may see
Most perfect Law and Liberty.
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BosToN, Jan. l2.-The Traueler states
that letters have been received in this city
from Northern clergyman, who establish
g himself in Charleston, with his family,
but o short time before the rebellion.
lie gives touching details of the anguish
and suffering Of the Inhabitants, many Of
whom hope and pray for redemption even
at the hands of the Yankees. In bis
opinion, the time is rapidly approaching