The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1869-01-06
Tho Old Year and tho Newi

joys and SORROWS, 'tasty greetings and ,ab.
rupt ferewclls,' his tnksn lis ,narch% adown
tho deep, dark pdssago Of: tho past and wc
have loft Of tho days, tho weeks ard the
months, but: tho remembrance OF tbcjn.--
T&elve months, ffy.two weeks, three hun.
drcd md slxty.Gvc days! Might VIC NOT
reduce the same TO neutrality-suspicious. key
momcnls--for five of which, mortuls urc
often willing to exchange earthly crowns ?
How nIncI OF time IN which TO have nc.
compishcd good--how mucl, unfortunately
IN which 70 have dono evil. Whut Is the
record to-day as. standing upon the lhrcsl,.
old OF the New Year, our minds are carried
back through the year just closed? How
few Of us can feel that our records arc clear.
Alas, how few, ."(or we have lcf: unhouc
those things which wc ongh, to have done"
&c. But we do not intend 10 mora'ize; the
past belongs TO tho dead past, and standing
in the present, upon tho threshold Of nno.
thcr year, lnt us define our positions, and 70
forth from the twilight INTO tho flood.isht
of the battle Of liIe. If any of us have fol.
len into the slough Of drspond, let US arise
thcrctrom. 'i1a%o hopes long vanished uu
deferred made the heart sick? Are the
burdens wcIShtyS Does centrifugal action
accm rcndy to dispcrso tl'onght Rom the
chambers Of memory? Does the mcn,l
storm rage piliIcssly upon tho hear, ten.
dIils--is the ascent stcsp-onJ tho dcrlix;
Ties rugged? Hope on, press forward. Has
poverty and grief thrown you upon the bit.
ter wntcrs Of mara? Never despair. These
arc not phenomena. The best Of men and
causes often suffer the greatest trials and
experience the sorcst defeat. But is not
success often dangerous--antl arc defeats
not often more apparent ,l,nn real /? Well,
then, if everything hns hmpprncd--if the
wreck h"S been complete If fortune has
Eonr, hl"nds departed, and the heart, lonely
and starved. keeps its vigiIs, while the Star
OF hope struggles through gloom mud ,,nu h.
ness, drink yc in its bitter r!ouucncc,
and, Sath' ring up the aShrn leaves, press for-
ward with Spartan courage to the lIomcrir
strife before sou. For the year that comes
Is lrauSht with mighty issues md woes nrc
uttered against those who are behind the
agc. .,..
with the experience Of the past twelve
mouths, however, whether for goo'l or evil
We can thru over II new lraf in onr history
AND strive 70 keep clear the PAGES which
may be written against lis for The comm.
time.
In the characters Of publishers and read :
ora, wo have logged alous through the
mouths which nrc now gon :, right pleasant.
", md profilnhly it is hoped, and though
"lost TO sight, FOR the most time (ony OF.
c"sionnlly meeting Oh special high DAYS and
holidays) VIC are mono Of us the worse for
that. The weekly visits Of our rcprrstn
tive, the Herald, huyu kept all the links in
the clmin unbrokcn, aud to-day the snuc
friendly relations exist between us rs In The
lines past. Had wo met oltencr, or lwcll
together IN tho flesh, perhaps Il might not
n"t hn.r Urcu ~ unity i,u" .,u. !, betty,
then that We have met in the spirit-no,
spiri's--and that nothing has interviewed
or sprung up to hrcak our harmony
HrralaSticaiy, then, VIC nrc ull happy,
though politically und socially the picture
may DO dark for some or nll of us. We
havc endured SORROWS, been bufletcd, bark.
cd at. and have suffered many ills, anh We
take il for granted that none of you have
been exempt from the trials which fall to
the shntc Of man, and therefore receiving
your sympathy, NC extend lull share oI
ours. with The earnest hope TINT The year 1850
MAY be full Of the joys which satisfy. and
that the SORROWS WHICH come to us may be
tempered 10 our capacities. In tho mcnn-
willis let us hold our ,cmperS in check. a
happy new year, reader may wc sail to-
ge.her ny pleasantly rs We have heretofore
dono, aud 1870 lud us, still last in friend.
ship. ,......
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Ills o&rcl,cncy, the Governor, has M.
pointed aud commissioned J. NJ. Ward,
Of Dead(all. Treasurer for Newbcrry