The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-01-06
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you'll song bringing very practical plain.
Through the past year. pOdng bright days
In the shadows and the sunshine bring you
Thank for this little "greenback thank you Now I'll
Happy New Year At your leisure you read my New
And when shall usher in the of sevenyOne
year whisper gently noble deeds well DONE
May Heavens blessings upon your pathway fall
Happy New Year! Happy New Yeari God bless you, one
and all!
Now the dead years volume edition Time
Newly bound, with golden thought and word and deed
Comes with its vivid pages, to claim farewell looks
slumbe with dead this grand completed book
First read in early springtme inauguration;
Happy day where of darkness into light emerged the
The day Nioses" with "policy" orssda
Surrendered to the soldier of few wOrds but many deeds
Deeds greatness deeds vaIo for sOrrowin Nation dOne
Plain like the Oden fathers slow speak, but swift to doi
Without show Osentaon, to his great trust noby true
Thinking acting People, for love of praise self
But how the laws Of justice may prevail IN all al the andi
By g manly. upright spirit and wise administration
The public debt decreasing not by yepudiiHOn,
economy retrenchment by fulfilling to the last,
The Nations sacred promises made in the fearful past
sucb the unpretendng President people, grand great
Now at the masthead. guiding the noble Ship of sate
when the ship went reelng DER TeasOn' trescherOu'
And our beautiful and braves filing bloody graves
Twas then we felt power, led armies forth
IT'LL victory shone the banners Of the North;
And the smg and the signing cease
All we trusted Grant in wartime, him
peace.
And there standeth ye people, NOBLE earnest man,
civilian by soldier to help him think and plan;
Schuyler CoLFAx; Christian Always true and
Surely to such noble leaders, our country we frus
What prospect spreads of Nations
The feees and the Iovelisst of all the Christian ands
the mountains and the valleys her feei
She Freedoms fountains, and the waters have
been sweet
nd lorv vis to-da in sIlt he
No land in song or story, is held of so much worth
ships of commerce darken the and the seas
Her march to power and greatness boast
great Pacific Railway reaches now th Western coast
And the Nation realizes one of her gTaHdsSt Dreams
over the sea- the suez Canal s completes
patient French DeLesseps fame and success are sweet
Though unbeleving told him. twas wild dream not to be,
Fleets by Eugene have sailed fro1 sea to
Our great railway completed Isthus stands,
wed the through the work of skiful
Thus our physical in the earth;
the Nations moral progress Of far greater WORTH
awe must educate perish Beecher years ago.
awe must educate o perish" in ignorance and woe!
whether great Nation in future years shall stray
Rests with the little children of America to-day.
In School we're training, in this progressive
The scholar statesman, the patriot and the
'Tis the Nations Educator, without respect class,
princely Plan to elevate and educate the mass
But in this age Christian thoughts and deeds
The grsndest nobIes era in the history of Time, [rues
And tell us that the Bible must be bantshe
Why not priesly fathers bring back the InquisitiOn
And put death the heretcs in aud in derson
Before footsool make proud Columbia cOweri
Ye have the wW to do it-ye only lack the P00er!
Ts no earthly dogma down the ROmsh throat
ONLY the Holy BIBLE in which the ages trust
And this rehteous struggle to defend the Common School,
By memories of fathers who came to Plymouth Rock
Bv ancestry which has Bible stock
By the light of civilization that followed the
OF MayhOwer and the Pilgrims, suffering for Truths dear
sake;-
By the blight upon the Romish reign
The long long list of martyrs by the Inquson slain;
the dear of Country We will maintain our trs
Pope priest, shall ampe rights into the dust
With thee year departed, great and good have hed
But none perchance known missed
As PEABODY, the noble, worldwide PhilanthrOpist.
Not on the field of BATTLE not in the halls o. Art;
But by deeds pncely charity Old New,
all people him. by tie both and true
Not his dear country, but DER the distant sea,
man wakened the joys of immortality;
What matterd it? all his asleep,
He fell mid friends who gathered around him but to weep
Another leaf of thy volume year. turn and
right stand like saying proudly, We
thou battling CGba for the sweets of Liberty
Like the bright forest beauteOus
Against dull oogebars beating may sing;
So the Old Worlds restless people, bound by Prsonbars Of
For the freemans rights struggling
Not only Spain England, may begin tremble now;
is serdOm be stamped GOdlike brow.
There's Isle, people, under the British
royal scarcely keep the Emerald Island down.
God pity Christian serf or slave
hopes her children in tyrannys grave
people dying for a boon she bestOw;
reaps at last in sorrow, whirlwinds of and woe
that noble Kossuh exclam
thing a Christian Nation has
the long, dark night tyranny begins away
And America arises first to greet the coming day.
learning through great sorros mercy
just [dust.
She has righted wrongs and lifted some bright jewels from
she bends her head to listen for Freedoms
Soon the just Fifteenth amendment shall prevail
this ALL peoples Julian brings forth Iwortb.
The SIXTEENTH AMENDMENT; holding of
the Republics daughters to-day disranchised stand
With criminals and pG1per8 and idiots, in the land
'Tfs banner of defiance the have unfurled;
They but asking brothers. for their orLdl
Far away in Eden's garden have heard much about
Woman helped into trouble she
Gods great idea "helpmeet" the woman he did
Plani