Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1869-01-02

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Life weary road no more,
sisnding on The ihrsh0ll Of tie mes
year il il PFoPilioa' lime for Res re-
solVss and frssh sulsayor let as prva,
by the ssPsrlsnss Of the Pss', sni aim At
improvement aud greater ussfulEsss ere
the infant 90, by whose cradle Ne s's
standing, shall perish, like 'Gs, amid The
ssews snl sLil'lhs winds VI blsal Dgsem'
Der.
In tie year before Us Let ms eonlemn lhs
petty tyranny that nov holds our sOyern'
meRi, aud must play It's little part upon
the stage, spl build brighter Ores u p,Iri-
Ollsm ihsR ever yet blaIel from lofty
mOuniain,eone OF losly vale. Though the
souIhs sons are disfrarehi'el and psrse-
eulsl BY the usurpers "ihAt be-, they are
children Of America, aud in their bOsoms
beat tie hearts aud live the souls Of free
mss-frsemen by the gin Of God, let US
oon'OuEd the despOlle spoilers who arc
yet wayiug the orihamme u Mars over an
OverpOwsred people,by achieving the grand
victories that reward the struggles OF IN
telleet Aad peace. Let US all take broader
views Of men aud things In the future than
We have taken in the past. The principle
Of secession, though true rs the Sermon on
the Mount, must be forever hence Ibheede !,
aud heneeforlh let US cling TO the legends
Of our first Revolution like the patriarch
chung to the robes OF the angel, and they
yet will bless us. Let us never forget
'The blood that flowed at Lexington and
erimsoned bright Champaign"
Let us revive our former reverence for our
own virginia's immortal Washington
THAT Star in the West that " i'll never 60
down
Till the records Of valor decay;
We must worship its light, FOR il is our own,
And Freedom will burst in its ray"
The South, though her people are down.
trodien and oppressed, is yet beautiful as
the bowers of CASTLE and fruciifying as
tho exhaustless Delta of the Nile; her sons
are brave, her daughters
Fair as n flower the light looks through"
Nature has showered her gifts with lavish
hand from the Potomac 10 the Gulf and
her teerning soil will yield her ransom from
sink in Lethe's silent wave; and let the
hearts of the people embrace in the broad
scope Of their affections the whole land
from the rock ribbed coasts of Maine to the
evergreen savannahs Of Florida. Let fam
CO see the Genius Of America on the shore
Of ocean, and hear her song of victory
Like spectral lamps, that burn before q
tomb,
The ancient lights expire;
wave torch, that floods the lessening
gloom
With everlasting fire.
Crown'd with my Constituted stars stand
Beside the toaming sea,
And from the Future, with victor's hand,
Claim empire for the Frcel"
That Genius of Liberty, when thus she
sang through one of her most gifted sons,
"crowncd with her consolidated stars,
stood upon the modern Ophir's Pacific
shore, and "claimed empire for the Free"
in Hespcran isles and unlocked the sealed
ports Of weird, mysterious japan. Fow
she stands upon the Rio Grande, in view of
factiou-torn Mexi leo, and ere long after
the waves Of immigration now striking the
sierra nevadas of the West shall begin 10
flow southwark, will "clailn empire for the
Free in that land whore Cortez led his
legions and History for centuries has
waved her undying torch over the grave
of hapless Montezuma, where
"No lordly sculpture, towing to the sky,
Mocks his poor dust with monumental
glory,
And storm-worn hillock tells the passer-
His simple story"
And the signs are ON nous that she will
stand, crowned with her consolidated
stars, amid them the Lone Star-upon
the Floridian shore, and sending over the
Gulf her voice Of music and power, will
waken the wave-girt Gem Of the Antilles
from tropical sleep and "Slaim empire for
the Free"
The new year, with its thousand new
hopes, VOWS, plans promises, pledges is
with us now. May it be happy year to you,
dear reader, and greatly increase your
means of comforting happiness.
1t is not doing GREAT things that makes
the human character great, or life illustri-
Gus. The test Of true worth is 10 do well
those things which are before us in our
every day relations and duties. Wonder
full events seldom happen to any individual
man or woman, except in romance. Even
the achievements that are, in their results,
considered great were brought out by
small events, and usually by insignificant
means. Those who have done most wor-
thily are often least aware Of their own
worth. So never consider fame and wealth
essential or indispensable to happiness
The only indispensable quality is goodness,
and goodness, like natural religion, is un-
controlled by sects and unoircumscribed
by crecds. II we begin this new year with
the determin alton to do all the good we
can, and to avoid doing all that is wrong,
or that will encourage wrong and evil in
others, then we may be sure of happy
twelve months. Such is the criterion we
intend for the HERALD. Ii shall do good