The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-01-06

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SATURDAY. --- JAN. 6, 1865 /
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NoF1cE We wish to obtain more sub
scrbers to tffis paper and make the follow
ing liberal propositions TO any one who
Will get up q Club of ten yearly subscribers
we viii send the BULLETIN one year free Of
charge get up a club of five and we will |
send you the paper for the period Of six
mgaths free Of charge. We shall ever strive /
tofUrnish our readers with a neat and rei- +
able Journal and will spare no pains or eX-
peuse to make 1t acceptable to ali classes.
The lamp Of eighteen hundred and sixty
five has been eztinguished by the steady, !
unerriRg hand Of time; another light breaks
in upon US, and its jets of radiating briIlian-
cy point in every conceivable direction.
Turn which way we may, the outlines of an
unknown path are family observable in the
mystic fields that lie before us Far off in
the distance a heavy mist shrouds every
thing in gloom, and that Godlike attribute
the human mind-leans family on the star
Of hope for having fOndly fed upon its eff
fulgent beams, while the now dead year was
with as and having drank the cup Of disap
pointment to the dregs, we are not prone to
be lured away from the solid duties of the
hour, and build anew our castles in the air
Once, the old year was ours; in it we lived
and moved. It's spotless pages were unfold
ed for our reeoed. Now, it is with the eter-
nifty gone by and macy abright-eyed youth
Of to-day, long years hence viii sit in his
open door and tell the props Of his sinking
age how ruin, death, and desolation was
brooded over the land Yes the old year is
dead, and with it is buried many an untold,
as swell as oftrepeated, hope but the present
is ours, and the future is before US. Can
1ye not borrow wisdom from the follies Of
the past and make it more inviting than the
bygono could have been Progress is the
law Of Nature, and though her channels
may be impaired by the agency Of man, and
her rapid strides retarded by mistaken
philosophy, true as the needle to the pole,
she will right herself and ride triumphantly
over the combined action of designing men.
The untrodden fields Of the future are ours;
ia their illimitable expanse our own down
trodden South viii yet meet her reward. Do
not let as stop to entwine the ivy's tendrils
: 5und broken and crumbling columns, for
there is full measure Of work for u.s. and while
we repel the waves Of oblivion from our af-
hieted minds, let us go forward with renew
cd vigor to the task that is before us. Our
star of State has been ruled in and ruled
out at the pleasure Of those who should afix
it forever and unalterably in its place We
ar3 adrift on lifes ocean, and must master
the storm as best we can, with patience, for
titade and frugality, doing our whole duty,
trusting in the guidance of an All Wise
Providence all the more earnestly as the
clouds of fanatical error lower upon us,
Let the people of this proud but ignored
State forever bury every trace Of discord and
contention among themselves, and, like q
band OF brothers true and tried, stand sh ouI
der to. shoulder, leaving no duty unperform-
ed which would eonduee to their own tran
guilty il these days of adversely. Terrible
storms have swept fair Tennessee's domain,
and many irrepairable losses she means
over to-day. During the past five years al
most all of her experienced hclmsmen, who
once stood upon her ship of State, have
passed to that bourne from hence no trav
eler returns" yet their examples should
be plucked from the receding past, and
placed far out into the coming future as
landmarks for their successors. Tennessee
through her chosen sons, has been heard il
the halls Of Congress, and her power has
been known, and though her seats are va
cant now, and her voice is no longer heard
the time must and will come when she vii
be taken into the nations councils despite
the narrow-minded views of those who ar,
daily adding to their own dishonor Will,
striving to blot out from the galaxy her sta
of State. Evilminded men may rctard, bu
they never can chain the evCr-revolyin'
wheels Of Progress; and as the old light
arc distinguished, and new ones are lighted
her great car Of Universally is ever moving
onward, developing and consumating tn
principles of Deity. We should study tn
arts of peace and the precepts of wisdom
hereafter, for the reverse of this brought t
us nothing but draught after draught iron
the river of Death, and sad recollection
from the ocean of sorrow The new year
ours let the book Of record which it cor
tains be filed with the chroniclings Of nc
bic and good actions; that we practise
peace and good will to all men on earth
and gave glory to God in the highest an
ere il totters to its close the light from it
Pickering lamp viii tall on people far I'D
vanced on the road to Reorganization an
representation.