Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-12-21
ON RIsfMAsi

oe'"eeh our present issue ana the usual
oa'e OF the next our patrons are thereby
reminded that the CHRONICLES will not again
Visit them until the Atm o. January next.
Amongst the IesuSn'es IN preparation Tor
this time honored carnival Of all mankind,
so TAR as our community is concerned, will
be gorgeous pageant for the benefit Of a
religious Institution, and Firemens Ball,
both at Moore's Hcsels7 What other fetes,
either public or private, are contemplated,
we are not advised of. With this brief men,
ton we were about to dismiss the subject,
but the word "Christmasn like some magic
Talisman has evoked the spirits of a long
buried past, whose portraits we are tempted
to describe as they rise before Us. First,
comes the figure of knee high urchin, who
as the "Jocund day stands tiptoe on the
misty mountain top Is stealing, with muf-
fed tread through every chamber of his
home, and catching the inmates "Christmas
gift" then coming forth, with face radiant
with success orTlslgubrioas with defeat,
Anon, with a group Of merry carefree COM
rades, he is exhibiting what both the Gods
and men nave brought him. His bright in
fantle smile as he turns TO bid us adieu,
fades into the grin Of the dead, and he ut
tiers "neverm ore" A figure like the first
but older, next comes with bounding step,
and begins pyrotecnical display, grander,
and more delightful to him than all the me-
teoric fireworks of the magnificent heavens
that smile above his head. He passes on
and the ringing laugh upon his hilarious
lips, dies away into wailing "nevermore."
Is this luis brother, who follows so wondrous
like, yet, with the down'of young manhood
upon his cheek, and the sparkle of dawning
love in his eye' He gives his hand, to a
and beautiful maiden, in festive
hall. and together they trip through the
merry mases of the dance, bis eyes the
while glowing it'll the kindling flames of
new fire in his soul, and hers beaming with
the softer lustre of girlhood's holier thought
Of love. The music ceases--the lights ex-
pire--th the figure vanishes- sand leaves in the
deserted halls the echo "nevermore."
No heart that has wept its loved and lost,
but may recall the pale sad ghosts of the
Of the Long Ago. Nay, whole
people may do so now. What a mockery
to their woe to wish "a merry Christmas
md happy New Year. to those, who brood
in silent anguish over ruined homesteads
and vacant fresides-and liberties lost p
What can Christmas be to such, but time
Of weeping for its "reminiscences of happier
ones, when around the grooming board and
by the family hcarthstone WEI gathered
those manly forms - f-o~' ~ . Z, iyyl.any
, nameless grave "a It'd. &sf battle
.hickest surged2 What can Christmas be to
,nct,.when, besides these buried heart idols,
stalk before then, gaunt famine and relent-
ess oppression2
Oh ye of the North, who in palatial man.
,ions and marble halls are preparing the
,proarous toast and gorgeous banquet or in
your humber but unpillagod homes are look.
ing forward to holiday of rnerriment and /
ylee, brstow one thought upon itheir wretch
ID fate whom friends and fortsne quite dis
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ann VINO came 10 utter that Sodlike senti-
nent 'Love your neighhor as yourself" in
pire Won with something of His GRAND and |
,o,.a,;. .h.r;,v for. r,;roa .na .u,,...a,
1e's ""N SPP'ss'eu
'eopleY May 1t not recall a thousand bat |
lie fields of the past, upon which the Poop lie. |
,ou devise new sufferinps for. fought with
,ou side by side. and added a fadeless glory
o yonr Hstar spanpled banner? NAV II not
permit YOU to recopn ize a beroism in their
,nparalleled sacrifices to resist the m;obt and
PRESTIGE of that fac n (,erwards2 Nav mn,
The blessed influences of the birthday Of the
Savior ef all. inspire Won with some annrec;.
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