The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1870-01-13
The New Year.
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In passing from 1869 we feel it to be
somewhat incumbent upon us to give to our
readers word or two Of encouragement for
1870 We regard the duty we owe the pub
lie Eve refer to our readers) as not only an
important one, but duty which has its
pleasures as we'll as its "rubs." We feel
that we have had our rubs in the rast year,
we feel that to a certain extent we have been
unkindly dealt with, we feel that we have
had injustice done us, we feel and know that
ii has been hard to struggle against the odds
with which We have had to contend, but we
are not discouraged nor even cast down. We
begin the New Year with a renewed hope,
and with fresh determination. We over
look those facts in the past which have, per-
haps, tended to discourage, and we will en-
deavor to Iroft by the lessons which we have
been taught in 1869. We extend our right
hand to our friends, and ask their aid in the
year which is before us. With no malice,
with no unkind feelings for any, with no de-
sire for contentious, we start out, trusting and
believing that the future has in store for us
our share of success in the battle of life
And before We have launched fairly out,
we would return our thanks for the patron
age we have had since assuming command of
the paper. We feel in our hearts an amount
Of gratitude which we can only prove by our
renewed efforts. We feel, too, that those
who have given to US their support are in
deed our friends, and as such, we shall here
after cherish them. We only hope by little
and little to build up our paper, and make
it that of which no Virginian can be asham-
ed. We are each day assured that there arc
many who give us their sympathy, and, on our
part, we can only express our appreciation in
words, and in action prove that which we
feel. We would that the Valley Virginian
could send forth to its readers a greeting
this year which would SAVIOR of better things.
and be the true Prophet of certain freedom
for Virginia in the future. We would that
the past had no regrets for her. Surely VIC
have much to be thankful for, and, for our
share, we sincerely trust there is no lack of
appreciation.
The changes Of the past year have been
many and varied, and when we regard the
position of Virginia to day and her prosperi-
ty in former time, We cannot but feel some
sad forebodiuss. Yet We are not wholly
without hope for her future. Still kept from
her place alongside her sister States, still
kept from the band who have struggled to-
gether for SO many and weary years, still
downtrodden and oppressed, with no rep.
in Congress and yet, with all, in
hope of better times, happier days and a
more prosperous New Year.
Z The lessons we have learned, the Arubsv
through which we have passed, the struggles
We have borne, we trust have purified us,
md made us better people and more God
caring nation. Our proud Old Common
wealth towers high with her neghbor States
nd the grandeur of her proud pre- cminence
5 still untouched We give to her now. and
ereaftcr, our best energies, our hopes and
ur prayers. We rank her ia our hearts &c
rst and foremost in all that commands ad-
airation and praise, respect and pity, and in
oncluson, even at this late hour, we extend
} all of our friends the good will of our
carts, our encouraged hope for the future,
ur unt'rlns efforts to serve and be worthy
their aid, and to all a Happy New Year.