National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-01-01
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1--WE take no note Of time but from It's loss;
To give It then tongue is wise in man-as If an
angel spoke"
The threshold of the New Year has been
passed, aud as THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN
reaches it's patrons this morning they will
begin TO nccustom themselves to the change
of date which marks the advent of a new
calendar And with this advent those of
us who uote the loss of time to give it Then
a tongue will have much that is good to
say Of the year that is passed and gone.
With the chronicles it made in the Old
World of mighty events which have agon-
lied great peoples aud exalted or destroyed
great governments we do not propose TO deal.
But the grand record Of 1873 in these
uuited States will ill one among the most
prominent pages of our national history.
Il is, alas, too true that it is stained here
and there with the blood Of murdered
American citizens, whose lives were sacri-
feed upOu the altar Of equal rights
bat the fires of patriotism kindlcd
at their funeral pyrcs are burning as warn
ing hcacons lighting mp the political horizon
to alarm all loyal people of impending dam
ger The heart of the great North has been
touched again with an appeal to the memo
RIGS Of the struggle between Secession and
| Unionisn, and the quick response has been
illustrated in u renewed devotion to the in
spiutious and principles which saved the
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days. Hardly less sad than this bloody
sacrifice, so fruitful of good has been the
cruel experience Of thousands Of our fellow
couutrymcn who have failed to survive in
their business endcavOrs the transition Of
| the nation from financial instability TO the
| firm basis OF positive and lasting resump-
ton, But their experience and failures have
| also yielded nuch 10 the common benefit,
| for they have marked the shallow waters
and suuken reefs in the tortuOus channel
! which leads to the open and boundless sea
Of general prosperity At the same time,
and despite these political aud purely
! financial troubles, the nation has made a
gigantic stride fairly leaped, rs it were,
with miraculous energy into the fore front
of integral independence among the Powers
Of the civilized world. No longer reliant
by compulsion upon the markets and ex-
acting commercial discipline of Europe, the
balance Of trade is in our favor and Amer
lean products are sold now where American
bonds at high rates of interest went beg
ging for purchasers. Masters of ourselves
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ment, the Government we preserved to our
selves against the adverse combinations oil
aristOcracies which sympathized with oul
intemccine foes, we are fast assuming {
permanent mastery over the traffic Of thC
world, and the exchanges of ocean com,
merce begin to bring the profits of honest
venture to us from every nayigable water.
What, then, although we rcgretfully de-
plore the cost of these great successes, have
we to complain ofas n nation oras apeople'
Verify, 1873 has been st0uneh friend, .
warm and cherishing patron, faithful
ally, whose auxillary forces have all beer
combined through the inscrutable ways o
Divine Providence TO increase our individual
thrift and enlarge our national glory
And, now, Of 1879! Glowing with tn,
widespread hospitality Of the season, anC
brilliant with the social observances Of tn
hour, the New Year begins with the auspi
cious assurance that the smiles OF iortun
and the peace aud quiet OF good government
are vouchsaled to the great MASSES Of on
people. Hand in hand with this assuranc
comes the certainty of n continuance 0
Republican rule for another four years il
the General Government and the relegatio
of misrule to circuufscribed localities, which
while they may exist as fostering sores upO
the body-politc, have already been politi
, cally cicatrized, and under that rule, Wi
be no longer infectious Resumption
fixed and legal fact, stability in the basis @
all our financial affairs, the encouragement
Of Aourishing and rapidly-developin
commerce, revival of long-stagnant indus
tries, an increase of mechanical and agri
cultural products, the constantly occurrin
, discovery Of new mines stored with mex
haustible riches, and a general restoratio
of mutual confidence all Of which are no.
r. being asserted with the ingincible logic {
current events, caunot fail to max
1879 the equal, if not the superio
, of its immediate predecessor
:. those results which we have so proud
, and with so much satisfaction place
. on record in the brightest annals Of Il
: past Aud it will be our own fault
a nation if we fail to realize these brigl
70 prospects. Free as we are, and are lilyel
= to be, from the entanglements Of the ~
e heavals of foreign governments, at pea,
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