Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-01-06
The Old and New Year.

! The one has departed with allit records
the doings and history Of our race, rolled VI
as in shroud, and labelled A. D. 1864; Will,
the new one is just putting forth its budis pre-
paratory to maturing its flowers and thorns
its joys and sorrows, its bereavements and dis
appointments, and in fine all the sequence'
to the recipients Of heavens mercies, which
shall constitute the record now making and tt
be made, for the current new year.
| IN the free states of our Union, during tht
year just closed, we have everything to bt
grateful for to the great Disposer Of human
affairs; neither pestilence Or famine has visited
the happy part of country it is our good
fortune to inhabt, and though engaged in @
desperate war, no hostile foot has pressed oul
soil, and our people i'll ali the departments Of
industry, have prospered as has never been the
case heretofore. We have prospered as though
enjoying state of profound peace, and know
nothing Of war, but in name, e,--save the treas
ure we have expended, and the dear ones who
have voluntarily died in the defense of our
glorious institutions But this expenditure Of
blood and of treasure, we have the satisfaction
to know, was not made in vain. Inestimable
results beneficial to liberty and to human
right throughout the world have been obtain.
ed, which sooner or later must result in the
permanent re-cStablishmcnt Of our Republican
Institutions,-of permanent cndurable peace
and make our Government a fitting example
for imitation, throughout the habitablc world
AS surely therefore, as effect follows cause,
it stands to reason, that the results of the year
just closed, will when they shall be brought to
bear upon the record to be made, and to be
worked out during the pending new year, be
productive Of the most happy results, both in
political and industrial point of view,--it ap
pears to US, that no period Of our countries
history has opened IN ore favorably, than that
Of the new yearjust iawning upon us, for which
as people, we will not he remiss in thank
fulness to the author of all these blessings. -
The rccorl however, Of the past year has been
made up, been signed, and is now of record
by the great Judge presiding over the affairs
Epf man, and from hcnceforth is subject to
neither appeal or, amendment, save so far as
its teachings and influence shall reflect upon
the succeeding year. Weeks, months, and
years arc but sign posts set up by human wis
dom, as boundaries to mark the progress o.
time, but at last are swallowedup in the grea
gulf of time, which like its author is bound
less and infinite. In this movement we have
brief existence allotted us to do and perform
our part Of the duties of life, as individuals
and nation, as has been done heretofore and
will be hereafter, all which as whole, mus
impress the future, as it is at present inau
enced by the noble deeds of our countrymen
done and performed during the past year, and
is good augury of future success and pros
perity. Amidst all this stir and hustle of oul
kind we too, though an humble editor, have
our duties to perform, which, though but al
item Of the great record which is making ant
shall be labelled among the DOING of thu
passing year,-we are resolved that our worl
shall be thorough, efficient and faithful Ii
conclusion therefore, we congratulate our pa
irons upon the happy surroundings which arr
upon us, and in the salutatory of our calling
wish them a happy new year.