The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-01-08

of the BEDFORD GAZETTE, January !,
1869:
Dear friends, you'll not expect me,
In my very Juvenile verse,
Much of the past years doings
At this time to rehearse.
For to your doors I've weekly
Brought all the current news,
And if YOU didn't read it
Twas that you didn't choose.
You certainly do remember
Events within year
That did befall the tenants
OF this sublunar sphere.
I'II only jog your memory
Concerning a very few;
'Tis well to think on the Old Year
AS we begin the New.
I've read in Peter Farley,
OF many cruel wars,
OF fire and blood and carnage
That mark'd the world with scars.
These things in times barbaric
The human race befel,
Turning Gods beautiful foot-stool
Into a raging hell.
Since then the christian era,
Has dawn'd the storm to still,
With Peace the ruling principle,
And toward men Good Will.
Now, look you through the year that's
gone,
And tell me, does the age
Fulfil the Christian doctrine,
Or repeat old Parley's page?
From where the bright LaPlata
His silver pillows rolls,
To where the waning Crescent
Cleans Ger the Cretan knolls;
From Erin's emerald headlands,
To faction-rent Japan;
How much of mans humanity
Is there toward his fellow man?
Alas! the same old story
OF battle, spoil and rage,
OfLust and Fraud and Tyranny,
Mar the historic page.
In the Old World king-craft struggles
To hold its blood stain'd thrones,
The Eastern gales are laden
With the suffering peoples groans.
The bayonet props the power
OF monarchies effete
And the people toll and perish
TO support the bayonet.
But Spain has burst the shackles
That bound her far too long,
And the Castilian valleys
Now ring with freedoms song.
Old ireland, too, is giving
Her enemies hot work,
And Crete sspringing from the wave
To free her from the Turk.
And in this Great Republic,
This proud land of the free,
The vampire Reconstruction
Kills the bird of Liberty.
Beneath the once broad @gis
Of the fundamental law,
Whereat the nations wondered
AS its perfectness they saw,
Millions of people languish,
In civil slav'ry bound;
So that their shameful bondage
May to party ends rebound.
Five hundred thousand white men,
American citizens born,
Of every right they hold most dear
By usurpation shorn!
Five hundred thousand white men,
Americans as we,
Denied the right of the ballot,
Meath the banner of the free!
Whilst in the halls where Pinckney
And Jefferson gave laws,
And Washington and Henry
Upheld righteous cause,
Half fbarbarous negroes sit and rule
The now degraded state,
Whilst Federal bayonets execute
The Radicals vengeful hate.
Oh! shame, where is the face of brass
That wears no mantling blush?
Oh! Justice, where the coward heart
That does not burn to crush
The Infamous cabal that sways
So bold the tyrant's rod?
Look down upon peoples wrongs,
0 just and righteous God
Now, let the New Year bring US,
A new and bright regime
An era that shall grandly
The gloomy Past redeem.
Now, let our strifes be buried,
Our prejudiees cease,
Our bick'rings and heart-burnings
Give place to perfect peace.
Let Winters falchion icy
Smite cold the heart of Hate;
And from this blessed morning,
Let Loves dominion date.
Then may ye answer truly,
Amen as We shall hear
The pleasant, hearty greeting
Ola happy, glad New Year.
THE CARRIER.
NEW LAMP ToR--Irvine, the en-
terprising man of the Regulator estab
lishment, has just received large sup
ply of beautiful coal oil lamps will
new and improved tops and chimneys
which far surpass anything we hav'
ever seen in the lamp line, togethe
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